Feds charge Dorchester mortgage broker with fraud

A shady mortgage broker exposed in an award-winning Herald series on Boston's foreclosure crisis was indicted by the federal government yesterday on multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering, officials said.

Dwight Jenkins, 39, of Dorchester was charged in U.S. District Court with using straw buyers and fraudulent mortgage applications to grab $1 million in profits while dumping numerous blighted properties on poor parts of the city.