Douglas Lee Carter, 63, Marco Island, Florida, who posed as a billionaire and a real estate tycoon, was arrested on a felony warrant charging him with scheming to defraud three people in separate real estate deals in Collier County, Florida. According to media Continue Reading...
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Operation Loan Lies, a coordinated national law enforcement effort to crack down on mortgage modification scams, involves 189 actions by 25 federal and state agencies against defendants who deceptively marketed foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification services.
“These con artists see the high foreclosure rates as an opportunity to prey on people in distress,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said. “They promise to rescue
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Shawn Corcas, 39, St. Albans, New York, pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a 68-year-old Jamaica, Queens, man who had been disabled as a result of a stroke and then secretly selling his house out from under him and pocketing the profits.
The defendant pleaded guilty before Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grosso to one count of second-degree grand larceny and one-count of first-degree falsifying business records. He
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Marc A. Bernstein, 54, New York, New York, a lawyer, was indicted and charged with stealing settlement and escrow monies from his clients. This second indictment charges the defendant with stealing more than $1.5 million from five clients. This follows a previous indictment that was unsealed on May 19, 2009 charging the defendant with stealing $652,600 from 11 medical malpractice and personal injury clients. The total amount the
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Frederick Earle Deen, III, 29, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. He entered his plea July 1, 2009, before United States District Court Judge Richard Kyle. Deen was charged on April 21, 2009.
According to Deen’s plea
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Francis R. Conti, 42, Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to thirty—˜three months in jail and ordered to pay $46,183.91 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy and mail fraud.
United States District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin imposed the sentence on Conti. According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Christian A.
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Ramon Coscolluela, 30, Union, New Jersey, a commercial loan broker, was charged by a State grand jury with one count each of theft by deception (second degree) and attempted theft by deception (second degree). Coscolluela, owner of Templar Group LLC, Newark, New Jersey, allegedly falsified five loan applications submitted to
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Craig Heller, 49, has been charged with for Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He was due back in court June 25, 2009.
Heller, acting as escrow agent, was hired in November 2007 to remit a settlement check for more than $82,000 to the partial owner of a
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Mayer Goldberger, 50, Brooklyn, New York, has been charged with Grand Larceny in the First Degree, Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He was arrested by DA Investigators. He is scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court, Hempstead.
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Daryl D. Ihde, 54, now of Glen Haven, Wisconsin, who formerly farmed in Garnavillo, Iowa, was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution to the United States on June 17, 2009, in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Ihde received the prison term after a January 8, 2009, guilty plea to one count of converting grain that had been mortgaged to the Continue Reading...