Laura Andersen, 48, Massachusetts, is charged with conspiring with her husband, Anthony J. Andersen, in a mortgage fraud scheme. Anthony Andersen held himself out be a broker and owned, controlled or conducted business using the following companies: Troy Realty Equity Corp., First Street Troy Realty Corp., 1st Street Troy Realty Corp., AA Asset Management, Inc., and Easthampton Mortgage Co. Inc.

On February 16, 2007, an indictment was returned against Anthony J. Andersen that charged him with one count of conspiring to commit federal crimes, thirteen counts of making or causing false statements to be made to a federally insured financial institution, one count of executing a scheme to defraud that financial institution, one count of causing monetary transactions to be conducted with the proceeds of specified unlawful activities for the purpose of promoting said unlawful activities (commonly referred to as “promotion money laundering”), four counts of causing monetary transactions to be conducted with the proceeds of specified unlawful activities designed, in whole or in part, to conceal or disguise the proceeds of said unlawful activities (commonly referred to as “concealment money laundering”), and ten counts of causing monetary transactions over $10,000 to be conducted in funds derived from said specified unlawful activities.

The superseding indictment returned by the grand jury charged Laura Andersen, with one count of conspiracy, two counts of aiding and abetting the making by defendant Anthony J. Andersen of false statements to a federally insured financial institution, one count of aiding and abetting her husband in executing the fraud scheme, and one count of making false statements to law enforcement. According to the superseding indictment, Laura Andersen participated in the fraudulent scheme by signing the signatures of borrowers and others on a number of the documents submitted to the bank. It is also alleged that, when interviewed by Special Agents of the FBI and IRS as part of the investigation on February 14, 2006, she falsely stated in substance that she had never signed any type of mortgage-related paperwork on behalf of anyone else, including rental or lease agreements, Department of Housing and Urban Development forms, or any other required paperwork, and that her husband had never requested her to forge signatures or to falsely complete any part of any mortgage application package.