Pennsylvania
Mortgage Fraud - Pennsylvania
Friday, August 29, 2008
Woman Pleads Guilty In $4.6M Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Joyce Davern, 37, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Wire Fraud Conspiracy before Chief United States District Judge Donetta Ambrose. In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway advised the court that Davern participated in a large mortgage fraud conspiracy that...
Monday, August 18, 2008
Guilty Plea In Pennsylvania Mortgage Fraud Case
Kelly Fields, 36, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Wire Fraud Conspiracy. Fields pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Judge Donetta Ambrose. In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway advised the court that Fields participated in a large mortgage...
Mortgage Broker Admits Defrauding Lenders
Richard J. Thomas, 44, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a charge of mail fraud. Thomas pleaded guilty to one count before United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti. In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Luke Dembosky advised the court that, from in and around May 2002...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Guilty Plea In Pennsylvania Misrep Scheme
Carrie Webb was charged in a criminal Information with wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. Webb and other conspirators at People’s Home Mortgage identified in the Information as ”LT” and ”CC”, allegedly submitted loan applications to lenders containing material misrepresentations as to borrowers’ financial...
Monday, July 14, 2008
Loan Processor Received More Than 3 Years For Approving Fraudulent Loans
Marcus Wiseman, Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced to a term of 41 months, 5 years supervised release and restitution in the amount of $375,861, for processing and approving loans for two other individuals when he knew that the loan applications contained false representations. Restitution payments were ordered joint and several with Jeffrey...
Monday, July 07, 2008
Pennsylvania Fraudster Gets 12 Years In Prison
Wesley A. Snyder, 71, Oley, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 146 months in prison, 36 months probation, and was ordered to pay over $29M in restitution for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded more than 800 individuals. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, Snyder was charged in a one count Information filed in U.S. District...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Mortgage Fraud Sentencing Affirmed On Appeal
Nathan Parker, 49, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the ringleader of a $4 million mortgage fraud scheme, was sentenced to serve 9 years, 7 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Orinda D. Evans on charges of conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud and mail fraud. Parker appealed his sentences, claiming that the Government breached the...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Its Prison For Loan Scam Artist
Scott Winovich, 43, Mars, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to 41 months of incarceration and three years of supervised release on his conviction of Bank Fraud and Tax Evasion. According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway, Winovich was involved,...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Guilty Plea In Precision Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Jason Jester, 38, South Park, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Wire Fraud Conspiracy. Jester pleaded guilty to one count before Chief United States District Judge Donetta Ambrose. In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway advised the court that Jester, along with Randy...
Friday, May 16, 2008
Guilty Plea In Conspiracy To Inflate Property Values
Anthony Fields, 38, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud conspiracy involving inflated property values. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, and according to his plea, Fields participated in a mortgage fraud conspiracy with, among others, his sister-in-law, Kelly Fields,...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Judge Dismisses Borrower Class Action
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a class of people victimized by the owner of a defunct mortgage company who allegedly operated a mortgage fraud scheme. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge James Giles said the banks that underwrote the mortgages had no obligation to monitor the Reading, Pennsylvania-based broker, Wesley Snyder, and that...
Monday, April 14, 2008
2 Pennsylvanians Plead Guilty to Misrepresentation Charges
Aaron Thompson, 32, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Randy Carretta, 44, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count each of Participating in a Wire Fraud Conspiracy before United States District Court Judge Joy Flowers Conti and Chief United States District Court Judge Donetta Ambrose, respectively. In connection with the guilty plea of ...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
5 Plead Guilty to Mortgage Fraud
Sharon Chamberlain, 40, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Ericka Stanford, 35, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count each of Participating in a Wire Fraud Conspiracy before United States District Court Judge Joy Flowers Conti. Stanford also pleaded guilty to one count of Money Laundering. Andrea Revak, 47, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
Thursday, April 03, 2008
2 Charged In Mortgage Fraud Scheme
David Paul, 50, a real estate investor, and Diane Flannery, 47, a mortgage broker and loan officer for Source Mortgage Company, were indicted and charged with mail fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme centered in Reading, Pennsylvania, between April 2002 and July 2003. Some of Paul‘s buyers were unable to qualify for affordable...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Guilty Plea In Pennsylvania Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Frank A. Kartesz, II, 39, Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud. In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Christian A. Trabold advised the court that Kartesz and others conspired to falsify mortgage loan applications for home buyers who could not have otherwise...
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Rachel Dollar is an attorney and Certified Mortgage Banker who handles fraud recovery litigation for lenders and secondary market investors nationwide. She is a nationally recognized speaker on the topic of mortgage fraud. Ms. Dollar is licensed to practice law in California and maintains offices in Santa Rosa, California. 
