The first Filipina judge in Cook County, Chicago, who came to the U.S. with almost nothing and no education, was sentenced on Thursday to a year in prison after being found guilty to participating in a $1.4 million mortgage fraud scheme a decade ago. The lenders, meanwhile, lost money as the straw purchaser defaulted on payments and properties were foreclosed. “This wasn’t stupid,” Durkin said, according to the newspaper. “This was a crime… You really didn’t need to do this.”"This wasn’t stupid. “Of all those things that everyone has told you about me, one thing was missing — stupid,” O’Brien, according to the Tribune.

Source: Fox News December 21, 2018 14:04 UTC