Jay Fischer was found guilty by Marathon County, Wisconsin, Judge Gregory Huber of a million dollar mortgage fraud scheme wherein he failed to pay off prior mortgages, resulting in dual active mortgages on homes.
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Richard Stromberg, 49, Wells Drive, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank and wire fraud conspiracy involving the submission to lenders of loan applications that contained material misrepresentations about the borrower’s financial condition.
Jeong Joon Moon, a/k/a Patrick Moon, 46, Germantown, Maryland, has been indicted on charges arising from a scheme to defraud financial institutions.
Ronald Russell was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in state prison for running a rent-to-own real estate Ponzi scheme. Russell was also ordered to surrender his real estate license issued by the California Bureau of Real Estate.
James Fidel Sotolongo, 48, Port Orange, Florida, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy and eleven counts of bank fraud for running a scheme to obtain properties with no money down and no money at closings, rent them out, and then sell the properties for a profit.
Furman Otis Clark, Jr., 65, Fernandina Beach, Florida, was sentenced on April 24, 2014, to 20 years in prison for his role in a fraudulent land development scheme wherein he used investor monies for personal expenses and not for land or real estate development
Manuel Herrera, 34, Sacramento, California, a licensed real estate agent, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme wherein the defendant and his conspirators conspired to obtain home loans from mortgage lenders based upon false and fraudulent loan applications.
Bonnie Kathleen Kreamer, a/k/a Bonnie Meehan, 49, Riva, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which resulted in losses of over $4.8 million. The defendant and her co-conspirators used many fraudulent techniques to further the conspiracy, including short sales in which the property was sold for a higher price than was represented to the lien holder and the seller.
Brian Kelly, 37, Forest Hill, Maryland man was sentenced to serve one year and a day in federal prison for defrauding thousands of homeowners in a $4 million nationwide home loan modification scheme wherein Kelly promised homeowners a guaranteed loan modification in exchange for $400-$2,000 in upfront costs.
Harold L. Gruber, 60, an attorney, and his law firm, Harold L. Gruber, P.C., Brooklyn, New York, have entered into a settlement to resolve allegations of submitting at least nine fraudulent filings to the Attorney General’s Real Estate Finance Bureau and breaching his fiduciary duties as an escrow agent.