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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Oct. 25, 2014

Loan modification lawyer agrees to be disbarred

Stephen Lyster Siringoringo stipulated with State Bar prosecutors to be disbarred for taking illegal advance fees in 14 mortgage modification cases and allowing nonlawyers to practice law.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A Garden Grove lawyer facing two State Bar discipline actions and a lawsuit by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over deceptive mortgage modification practices has agreed to be disbarred.


In a stipulation with bar prosecutors, Stephen Lyster Siringoringo, 33, admitted that he took advance fees for 14 mortgage modification matters in violation of a 2009 statute known as SB 94.

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