25 Million Ex-Felons In The U.S. … 1 Million New Convicted Felons Every Year

There are approximately 25, million ex-felons in the U.S. and every year approximately 1,000,000 new people are convicted of a felony.

A felony conviction is life changing. Everyone says that felons should get a second chance, but that seldom happens. Life is tough … it is very tough if you are an ex-felon. Many ex-felons try to hide their record, but that is difficult when 99% of all U.S. firms perform background checks.

Yet, despite all of the $10 background check screenings, some of the large national mortgage field service firms have ex-felons on their staff and they have also hired ex-felons as subcontractors. Ex-felons have a better chance of getting a job in the mortgage segment of the industry than they do in the insurance or mortgage segments.

FEMA and HUD have hired ex-felons. FEMA now requires fingerprinted FBI background checks for all of their disaster inspectors. HUD awarded a major field services contract to a firm headed by an ex-felon.

FEMA disaster inspector Bill J. Neal, 60, of North Carolina, served more than six years in prison in three states for criminal sexual conduct, attempted embezzlement of public money, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and cocaine possession. After the 2005 hurricanes, he trained new inspectors in Florida. Neal told the newspaper he had an impeccable work record.

READ about FEMA disaster inspectors in 2005.

The mortgage segment is the home of the $3 mortgage drive-by inspection and 99% of all of the problems in the field services industry.