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Mortgage Fraud - Missouri
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Missouri Mortgage Banker Charged with Mortgage Fraud
Rose A. Shaw, St. Charles, Missouri, was indicted on multiple mail and wire fraud charges, along with a forgery charge alleging that she signed a judge’s name on a bankruptcy document. Shaw was indicted on five felony counts of mail fraud, one felony count of forgery and one felony count of wire fraud. According to the indictment, Shaw received...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Mayoral Candidate among Eleven Indicted in Missouri Mortgage Fraud
A former Jackson County, Missouri, official and her husband were among those indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy and wire fraud for their role in a scheme to engage in mortgage fraud. A day after being indicted, Katheryn Shields filed to run for mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. Shields was quoted as saying that the federal charges...
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Kansas City Appraiser Sentenced To Two Years
Phillip D. Thomas, 50, appraiser, Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced to twenty-four months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $6,309,277.20 in restitution for his role in a conspiracy to defraud home buyers and mortgage lenders of millions of dollars. Thomas pled guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering on April 27, 2005. ...
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Second Guilty Plea in $5M Missouri Mortgage Fraud
Doris J. Taylor, 59, real estate broker, Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to transferring money obtained illegally through fraud across state lines. Taylor was indicted on April 5, 2006. “Mortgage fraud is a serious offense that will be vigorously prosecuted,” Missouri United States Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman said, “not only because of...
Friday, December 01, 2006
Kansas Builder Indicted On New Charges
The First Rule of Holes - When you’re in one, stop digging . . .
A grand jury in Topeka, Kansas returned an indictment charging a Kansas City home builder with violating a court order and trying to interfere with a federal investigation. Already under indictment on charges including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering, F. Jeffrey Miller, 45, Stanley, Kansas, was allowed to continue doing...
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Cease And Desist Orders Pending Against 16 Missiouri Title Agencies
The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration released information regarding its recent investigations into several St. Louis area title agencies. The findings of this investigation prompted the Consumer Affairs Division of the department to request that Cease and Desist orders be issued to several of...
Monday, October 16, 2006
Three Prior Employees of Ameriquest Sentenced In Missouri Mortgage Fraud
Sentenced Range from One to Three Years for Conspirators of Brent Barber
Three mortgage company employees were sentenced in Kansas City, Missouri for their role in a property flipping scheme and mortgage fraud that involved nearly 300 fraudulent loans worth almost $20 million. Roderick Neil Criss, 35, Kansas City, Missouri, formerly the branch manager at Ameriquest Mortgage in Gladstone, Missouri, and president of ...
Thursday, July 20, 2006
False Income Documents and Verifications Underlie Indictment of Missouri Couple
Ida Mathis, 52, Kansas City, Missouri, and Larry D. Wills, 50, Kansas City, Missouri, were charged in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Missouri for wire fraud and money laundering as part of a fraudulent mortgage transaction. Count One of the federal indictment alleges that Mathis and Wills, aiding and...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Kansas City Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty In $17.5M Mortgage Fraud
Jeffrey Tyler Wine, 28, real estate investor, Kansas City, Missouri was charged by information and pleaded guilty to a federal information that charges him with mortgage fraud conspiracy and money laundering in connection with a $17.5 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 280 residential properties. “Not only were dozens of financial...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
St Louis Man Sentenced
Peter Faccaro, 44, St Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for wire fraud and misuse of social security number followed by three years supervised release for using false names, social security numbers and other documents to obtain loans to purchase nine properties in St. Louis, Washington, Missouri and Grafton, Illinois. He was...
Friday, April 21, 2006
Former Missouri Charter School President Indicted in Mortgage Fraud
James Elliott Coleman, 58, Raytown, Missouri and James Lynn Woolard, 54, Gladstone, Missouri were charged with mortgage and investment fraud. The 11 count indictment alleges that between February 4, 2002 and May 21, 2003, Coleman and Woolard caused mortgage lenders to approve nine fraudulent loans totaling $778,336. Coleman and Woolard...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Probation Sentences For Two in $6M Missouri Mortgage Fraud
Nathan J. Brinkle, 30, Kansas City, Missouri and Jonathan T. Jennings, 34, Lee’s Summit, Missouri were sentenced this morning to three years of probation, including six months’ house arrest for their roles in a scheme to defraud home buyers and mortgage lenders of more than $6 million. The court also ordered Brinkle and Jennings to pay...
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Mother and Son Indicted in Missouri Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Eric Kendall Taylor, 35, Lee’s Summit , Missouri and his mother, Doris Taylor, 58, Kansas City, Missouri, were indicted in connection with an alleged mortgage scheme that resulted in 23 fraudulent loans totaling more that $5M. The scheme allegedly operated in Kansas City and Lee’s Summit, Missouri from the summer of 1999 through September 23,...
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...
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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 
