One the biggest mortgage fraud cases to hit the Sacramento area has yielded criminal charges against nine more individuals.
On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted several members of a local family on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering over their alleged roles in a scheme that defrauded lenders of $16 million.
The indictment said the family members served as "straw buyers" who took out loans using phony documents to pay inflated prices for homes that later went into foreclosure.