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Mortgage Fraud - Missouri
Friday, March 31, 2006
Phoenix Title Owner Sentenced to Five Years
James Andrew Thurman, St. Charles, Missouri, former owner of Phoenix Title and James Andrew GMAC Real Estate (JAGMAC) was sentenced by a Missouri federal court to 63 months in prison and was ordered to pay over $2 million to the victims of a $2 million mortgage fraud scheme. Thurman pled guilty to one felony count of wire fraud in August 2005. At...
Thursday, March 30, 2006
First Sentences in $20 Million Missouri Mortgage Fraud
A former mortgage broker and a former real estate appraiser were sentenced in Missouri federal court in separate but related cases involving a property flipping scheme and mortgage fraud. Their fraud was part of a larger scheme that involved nearly 300 fraudulent loans worth almost $20 million. Avonda Nicodemus, 33, Kansas City, Missouri, a...
Friday, March 10, 2006
Phoenix Title Owner Sentenced
James A. Thurman, St. Charles, Missouri, the owner of Phoenix Title Company, St. Charles, Missouri, was sentenced to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution in connection with charges that he defrauded Phoenix Title Company of $1.6 million by taking money from customers’ escrow deposits. Thurman pleaded guilty...
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Barber Pleads Guilty to Two Remaining Indictments
Brent Michael Barber, 41, Missouri, plead guilty to 104 federal felony counts levied in two separate mortgage fraud cases. In total, he plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy, ninety eight counts of interstate transportation of funds obtained by fraud and four counts of money laundering. In total, the charges involved approximately 300 loans...
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
First Magnus files Civil Lawsuit Alleging Kansas City, Missouri Mortgage Fraud Scheme
First Magnus Financial Corporation (FMFC) filed a civil lawsuit in the Federal Court for the Western District of Missouri, Kansas City Division, against the following defendants whose roles, as indicated in the complaint, are also included: Summit Mortgage, L.L.C, mortgage broker Joe Richardson, principal/alter ego, member, employee and/or agent...
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Former Title Company Exec Sentenced in Escrow Diversion
Kurzenberger receives six year sentence for theft of escrow funds
Thomas Kurzenberger Jr., 37, Ballwin, Missouri, was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $5.7 million after pleading guilty to mail fraud in connection with his diversion of funds from title company escrow accounts. Kurzenberger is the former vice president of Title Insurance Agency, a suburban St. Louis, Missouri ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Last Defendant Sentenced in Lee’s Summit, Missouri Mortgage Fraud
Carl Long, 56, Oak Grove, Missouri was sentenced to three years in federal prison with parole and ordered to pay $79,500 in restitution. On April 21, 2005, Carl Long pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with part of a mortgage fraud scheme among three co-defendants that involved a total of...
Monday, December 05, 2005
Missouri Real Estate Entrepreneur Convicted
Barber Guilty of Conspiracy
A Missouri real estate entrepreneur was convicted by a federal trial jury for orchestrating a property flipping scheme and mortgage fraud conspiracy. Brent Michael Barber, 41, of Belton, Missouri, was found guilty for his role in a conspiracy to defraud two mortgage lending companies of hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Brent Barber manipulated...
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Former Title Company VP Pleads Guilty
Thomas Kurzenberger Jr., 37, Ballwin, Missouri, the former vice-president of Title Insurers Agency, Inc., 226 South Meramec Avenue, Suite 200, Clayton, Missouri, was charged by information and pled guilty to one count of mail fraud in connection with allegations that he diverted almost $2.8 million from title company escrow accounts. According...
Friday, November 04, 2005
Two Men Sentenced in Lee’s Summit, Missouri Mortgage Fraud
Two men were sentenced in connection with a Lee’s Summit, Missouri mortgage fraud scheme alleged to have involved approximately $18M in fraudulent loans. Anthony Long was sentenced to 2 years in prison, to run consecutively with the sentenced imposed in the companion case, following by 3 years supervised release and was ordered to pay...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Two Missouri Men Sentenced in $18M Mortgage Fraud
Anthony Edward Long, 35, Blue Springs, Missouri and Mitchell David Medlin, 43, Lee’s Summit, Missouri were sentenced in separate hearings for wire fraud and money laundering after pleading guilty in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. Long, who pleaded guilty to charges contained in two separate indictments, was sentenced to three years...
Monday, August 29, 2005
Owner of Phoenix Title Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
Thurman Admits to Theft of $3.4 Million from Escrow Accounts
James A. Thurman, 41, St. Charles, Missouri, the owner of Phoenix Title Company, St. Charles, Missouri, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with allegations that he defrauded the company of $1.6 million by taking money from customers’ escrow deposits. Phoenix Title was closed down in April, 2005 and was placed in receivership after...
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...
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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 
