Roger K. Howard, 50, Englewood, Colorado, pled guilty recently before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to three counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
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Sylvia Odia Thomas, 40, formerly of West Chester, Ohio was sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $313,021 in restitution to lenders and $95,422.14 to the IRS for crimes she committed as part of a mortgage fraud scheme.
Haider Zafar, 35, formerly of Dublin, Ohio, has been arrested in connection with a $10 million fraud scheme involving false representations about investments in Pakistani real estate.
Jose Miguel Aguilar, Rancho Cucamonga, California, pled guilty to two felony counts of grand theft and one felony count of money laundering.
Wesley Barta, Oakland, California, Irma Galvez, Pacheco, California, Stan Kahan, Berkeley, California, and Joseph Vesce, San Francisco, four Northern California real estate investors, have agreed to plead guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.
Raymond Paczkowski, Jr., 78, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, a former attorney, has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in connection with stealing more than $400,000 from multiple clients, one of whom was disabled. The defendant stole money that had been entrusted to him by clients seeking help to pay off mortgages or as part of the probate of an estate.
Gershon Barkany, 29, Woodmere, New York, pleaded guilty at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, to wire fraud in connection with his role in a $62 million real estate ponzi scheme.
Tara Denise Bonelli, 33, Santa Cruz, California, was sentenced to 37 months in prison by United States District Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose, California, on June 25, 2013, for defrauding investors of over $3,000,000.
Kelvin Leonard Davis, 42, Birmingham, Alabama, a former real estate lawyer, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre to two years in prison for wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that exceeded $1 million.
Paul Lascola, 70, Thousand Oaks, California, was sentenced by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kent Kellegrew to serve 10 years in state prison for his role in a real estate investment fraud scheme.