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Mortgage Fraud - Missouri
Monday, August 15, 2005
Missouri Woman Sentenced in Connection with $2M Mortgage Fraud
Guilty Plea to Tax Evasion Results in 18 Month Sentence
Kimberly Williams, 46, Town & Country, Missouri, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for tax evasion in connection with her role in a $2 million mortgage fraud scheme. On May 18, 2005 Williams plead guilty to one felony count of income tax evasion. As part of her plea, Williams agreed to pay the proceeds from the sale of her residence to...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Sentencing in $1.2 Million Missouri Mortgage Fraud
Jeannita Triggs was charged by information and plead guilty to one count of mail fraud in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on August 17, 2004 in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders $1.2M. The indictment alleges that between January 1999 and February 2002, Triggs devised a scheme to...
Monday, July 18, 2005
Guilty Plea in Kansas City Loan Fraud
Williams Admits to Conspiring with Barber
Vernon David Williams, 58, former mortgage broker, Kansas City, Missiouri plead guilty to conspiracy and fraud in connection with allegations that he conspired with Brent Michael Barber, real estate entrepreneur, Belton, Missouri, to defraud mortgage lending companies. In the guilty plea, Williams admitted that he was an employee of mortgage...
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
ABN AMRO Files Civil Suit in Kansas City
Three Defendants Previously Plead Guilty in Flipping Scheme
ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. filed a civil lawsuit in Kansas City, Missouri federal court against: Pearl Mortgage Group Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; Midtown Real Estate Holdings LLC, Kansas City, Missouri; Jonathan Jennings Realty LLC, Kansas City, Missouri; Jonathan Jennings, Lee’s Summit, Missouri; Brighter Homes East Inc., Kansas City,...
Kansas City Fraud Files
An article in The Kansas City Star (As home prices soar, so does mortgage fraud, by Paul Wenske) tracks and recaps recent mortgaqe fraud scheme in Kansas City, Missouri. There’s also a companion article, Appraisal inflation ‘ticking time bomb’ by Paul Wenske.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Barber Ordered to Jail Pending Trial
Judge Found Terms of Release Violated
Brent Barber, Belton, Missouri will spend the remainder of his time awaiting trial in a jail cell. Although Barber was free on bail with three separate indictments pending, On May 20, 2005, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge John Maughmer ordered Barber into custody for violating the terms of his release. As a condition of his release on bond, Barber...
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Former Ameriquest Employee Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud
Calvert Admits to Defrauding Employer and Borrowers
Chauncey Joseph Calvert, 34, Kansas City, Missouri, a former employee of Ameriquest Mortgage, pleaded guilty in connection with his role in a conspiracy to defraud Ameriquest and victim investors of more than $4 million. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on Aug. 13, 2004.
Calvert was an account executive at Ameriquest...
Monday, June 06, 2005
Three Missouri Men Plead Guilty in $6.3M Mortgage Fraud
False Information Submitted to Obtain Investor Loans
Three Missouri men plead guilty in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving loans of over $6.3M whereby they obtained loans for property ‘investors’ based on falsified information and documentation. Pleading guilty were: Jonathan Jennings, 33, Lee’s Summit, Missouri Nathan Brinkle, 30, Kansas City, Missouri Adam Kerr, 34, mortgage...
Friday, May 20, 2005
St. Louis Builder Convicted of Fraud
Thomas Diverted Funds Paid for Construction of Homes
After a 14-day trial, a St. Louis, Missouri federal jury found Jeffrey Thomas guilty of four counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, two counts of money laundering and one count of bank fraud in connection with allegations arising from his construction of luxury homes. Thomas owned, operated or directed businesses for the construction...
Owner of Phoenix Title Indicted
Thurman Allegedly Diverted Almost $4M From Escrow Accounts
Phoenix Title (St. Charles, Missouri) owner James Andrew Thurman was indicted on eight counts of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud charges in connection with a $3.9 million mortgage fraud scheme. Phoenix Title shut down in April. 2005. The indictment alleges that, between March 2002 and January 2005, Thurman fraudulently transferred about...
Monday, May 02, 2005
Kansas City Appraiser Pleads Guilty in Massive Fraud Scheme
Thomas Involved in Multiple Schemes
A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to defraud home buyers and mortgage lenders of millions of dollars. Phillip D. Thomas, 49, appraiser, Kansas City, Missouri waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty to three-count information, admitting to his role in a mortgage fraud conspiracy. ...
Friday, April 29, 2005
Charges Dropped Against Landwer
Money from Real Estate Transaction Returned
Charges were dropped against Charles Landwer Jr., 42, Bartlett, Missouri. Landwer was charged with theft and financial exploitation of an elderly person in connection with allegations that he failed to return $170,000 in real estate proceeds to a 77-year-old man. However, the money was forwarded to the man and the South Elgin bank that...
Monday, April 25, 2005
Mortgage Appraisal and Down Payment Scheme Results in Three Guilty Pleas
US DOJ - Press Release
Click here to read the Indictment
Click here to read the Plea Agreement of Carl Long
Click here to read the Plea Agreement of Mitchell Medlin
Click here to read the Plea Agreement of Anthony Long
Three Kansas City metropolitan men pleaded guilty in federal court to devising and executing a scheme to defraud home-buyers and mortgage lenders of millions of dollars. Anthony Long, 34, Blue Springs, Missouri, his father, Carl Edward Long, 55, Oak Grove, Missouri and Mitchell David Medlin, 43, Lee’s Summit, Missouri pleaded guilty to a federal...
Fraud Conviction Results in Suspension of Head Start Branch Director
Loscher on Administrative Leave While Agency Reviews Conviction
The executive director of the Overland, Missouri Branch of Head Start was been placed on administrative leave while agency officials investigation her conviction for fraud. In November 2004, Brenda S. Loscher pleaded guilty in Colorado in connection with allegations she defrauded her former mother-in-law of over $150,000 in 1999 in connection...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Sentence Imposed in St. Louis Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Schulte Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Pay Restitution to Lenders
Charles R. Schulte, 57, St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to serve 19 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $1,176,098.80 in restitution to 19 different lenders. Schulte plead guilty to one count of wire fraud on March 17, 2004. Click here to view a copy of the Judgment that breaks down 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 
