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Mortgage Fraud - Pennsylvania
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Task Force Formed To Counter Growth Of Mortgage Fraud In Western Pennsylvania
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan and key officials from federal, state and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies announced today the launch of the Western Pennsylvania Mortgage Fraud Task Force, a strategic partnership intended to combat the growing problem of mortgage fraud in the Greater Pittsburgh region. The Mortgage Fraud...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Mortgage Broker Sentenced To 3 Years For Fraud Scheme
William D. Edgar, 49, Verona, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania federal court to 37 months of incarceration and five years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy, bank fraud, and wire fraud. According to the court documents and information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T....
Friday, January 11, 2008
Sentencing Hearing Continued For Broker
Jay Berger, 54, mortgage broker, settlement agent and title agent, will not be sentenced on January 15, 2008. Berger, through his attorney, motioned the court for a continuance of that hearing until March 19, 2008. The motion was based on the fact that Defendant had just hired attorney Jerome Brown who required 60 days to prepare the case for...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Pennsylvania Businessman Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud
Robert L. Dodsworth, 60, Erie County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to felony charges that he engaged in mortgage fraud in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania. Dodsworth entered the plea at a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Sean J. McLaughlin. Dodsworth pleaded guilty to the felony counts of money laundering and conspiracy, criminal...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Pennsylvania Broker Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Wesley A. Snyder, 71, Oley, Pennsylvania, is charged in a one count Information filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with Mail Fraud Affecting a Financial Institution, 18 U.S.C. § 1341. The Information alleges that between 1988 and September of 2007, Snyder defrauded more than 800 individuals throughout Central and Eastern...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Pennsylvania Businessman Indicted for Mortgage Fraud
Robert L. Dodsworth, Erie County, Pennsylvania, is accused of a mortgage-fraud scam that included misrepresenting Borrower income and financials. Dodsworth is also alleged to have manipulated the bank accounts of prospective homeowners. According to the criminal iinformation, Dodsworth, owner of several Pennsylvania corporations, from January...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Man Receives 14 Years for Real Esate Scam
Mickey Allen Weicksel, a former real estate investor who obtained about $4 million in kickbacks through a real estate scam centered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 14 years in prison, five years probation after his release, and ordered pay $750,324 in restitution. On March 3, 2006, a jury convicted Weicksel of 14 counts of wire...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Pennsylvania Mortgage Banker Sentenced
Margaret Carole Fisher was charged in a one count information with aiding and abetting mail fraud, resulting from a scheme to defraud home owners, lending institutions and title companies, in which Fisher participated from at least Spring, 2002 through December, 2004. After pleading guilty to the one count information, Fisher was sentenced to 6...
Monday, October 15, 2007
Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud
Scott P. Winovich, 43, Mars, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of Bank Fraud and Tax Evasion announced United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan. In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway advised the court that Winovich, in association with a real estate business that he owned,...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Pannsylvania Man Indicted for Issuing False Appraisals
Richard Woods, 51, Kingston, Pennsylvania was charged in an indictment returned by a Pennsylvania federal grand jury on March 20, 2007, with one charge of mail fraud related to making false and fraudulent mortgage and loan appraisals during a four-year time period. It is alleged that he used the mail to further a scheme in which false real...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Pennsylvania Mortgage Broker Charged with Real Estate Closing Fraud
Jay Berger, 54, mortgage broker, settlement agent and title agent, was charged by Information in connection with his alleged involvement in a real estate closing scheme that defrauded title companies and lenders in excess of $4.6 million dollars. Also charged in a separate Information was Margaret Carole Fisher, 53. According to the Information ...
Friday, March 23, 2007
Pennsylvania Mortgage Broker Pleads Guilty to Creative Financing Scheme
Christopher Gallagher, mortgage broker, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to three counts of wire fraud and two counts of failure to file income tax returns in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving properties valued at more than $1.5 million. Gallagher worked in close contact with Patrick Balf, who worked as a real estate agent...
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Pennsylvania Businessmen, Accountant Indicted for Mortgage Fraud, Tax Evasion
Bishop Krabsz, (aka Stephen Bishop), 59, Cherry Hill, New Jersey and James Sanford, 68, Berlin, New Jersey were indicted along with their accountant, Enrico Nardini, 67, Boothwyn, Pennsylvania for charges including conspiracy, wire fraud, false tax returns and false statements to a financial institution. In September, 2002, Krabsz allegedly...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Pennsylvania Attorney Indicted for Real Estate Fraud
Joseph Dente, attorney, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, was indicted for misappropriation of real estate proceeds. Dente, represented a homeowner in the sale of her property. According to the indictment Dente received the loan proceeds and was to remit them to the borrower’s lender. Instead, he “converted the monies to his own use and benefit”.
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Pennsylvania Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Fake Appraisals
Chester Underhill, 47, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to thirty months of incarceration and three years of supervised release on his conviction of Mail Fraud. Underhill was an unlicensed appraiser that performed appraisals using his deceased father’s license. In addition, at the request of mortgage brokers, Underhill inflated the...
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Rachel Dollar, the editor of Mortgage Fraud Blog, is an attorney and Certified Mortgage Banker who handles litigation for lending institutions and secondary market investors. She is an author and a nationally recognized speaker on the topic of mortgage fraud. Ms. Dollar is a shareholder with the law firm of 
