A Chicago-area loan originator has pled guilty to her role in mortgage fraud scheme involving a judge whom she has agreed to testify against.

Around 2006, Maria Bartko, 50, was a residential loan originator at Amronbanc Mortgage Corp. in Lincolnwood, Illinois.

Also working part time as on originator at Amronbanc Mortgage was Jessica Arong O’Brien, who subsequently was elected judge in Cook County.


Source: Mortgage Daily