Federal prosecutors charged attorney Maryam Khan, a partner with the Amal Law Group in Palos Heights, Ill., with submitting fraudulent home loan applications to and related documents that helped get a loan for a fictitious home buyer. Khan warned two accomplices in the scheme that they all faced potential civil and criminal charges if the fraud was found out, the federal complaint said.
Khan, 29, and three co-defendants “fraudulently obtained mortgage loan proceeds” from a bank by knowingly “causing to be prepared and submitted a loan application and supporting loan documents,” according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois. U.S. v. Jaradat, No. 09-235. Khan, whose law firm said she was on maternity leave, couldn’t be reached immediately for comment. Nikia Marie Bilal, another partner with the firm, didn’t return calls seeking comment.
