He was convicted of hijacking a home – and now the I-Team has learned the same man is being accused in another real estate scheme known as “deed shifting.”

It involves a program in which people can rent-to-own a home – a less expensive way to achieve the American Dream. But one homeowner discovered that a house he paid for was never really his.

A Cherry Hill man who held himself out as a mortgage loan specialist has been charged with theft and other charges that he allegedly used $146,000 for personal expenses that had been paid to him by four Burlington County residents seeking loan assistance, authorities said on Wednesday.

Mark L. Begley, 50, was charged with second degree theft by deception, two counts of third degree theft by deception, second degree misapplication of entrusted property, two counts of third degree misapplication of entrusted property, third degree filing a fraudulent or false income tax return, two counts of third degree failure to pay/remit taxes and third degree failure to file a return.

A Boulder man convicted of stealing more than $30,000 from an elderly woman in a real estate scam is now scheduled to be sentenced in August after his hearing was delayed today.

Gilbert Million was convicted by a jury in May of five felonies, including criminal exploitation of an at-risk elder, theft of $20,000 to $100,000, attempted theft of $500 or more from an at-risk elder, offering a false instrument for recording in the first-degree, and criminal impersonation.