Ex-mortgage adviser sentenced to two years in prison

Carmen Reichman
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A former mortgage adviser was sentenced to two years in prison by Maidstone Crown Court on Friday.

Michael Joseph James Lewis was convicted by the court on two counts of making/supplying documentation for use in fraud and ten counts of carrying on a mortgage advisory business despite being prohibited from doing so. Lewis had pleaded guilty to these matters on 14th June 2013 at an earlier hearing. The FCA had brought the case against him when it found that he had ignored a previous ban imposed on him by the Financial Services Authority in 2011. It said it had discovered that Lewis had been unlawfully providing mortgage advice to consumers right up until his arrest on 24 October 2...

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