Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Extradited Mortgage Fraud Defendant Pleads Guilty
Delroy Patterson, 47, formerly of Lauderhill, Florida, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas to one count of aggravated identity theft. Patterson was sentenced immediately following his guilty plea to 24 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release.
As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, Delroy Patterson was extradited on July 14, 2008 from Kingston, Jamaica, to face federal charges in Florida.
On November 7, 2006, Delroy Patterson was indicted, along with 10 others, for his role in connection with Operation Whose House, a large-scale mortgage fraud investigation and prosecution. To date, 9 defendants in Operation Whose House have been convicted by guilty pleas. All have been sentenced. The last remaining defendant, Yvette Scott Patterson, a mortgage broker, is awaiting extradition proceedings in Jamaica, scheduled for September 5, 2008.
According to the Indictment and statements made in open court during the various guilty pleas, the defendants conspired to make false loan applications, false employment verification forms, false salary statements, and inflated bank account statements for submission to various mortgage lenders. The defendants also used and caused others to use false or stolen Florida driver’s licenses, identification cards, and social security numbers as their personal identification to purchase properties in the names of the individuals whose identification documents had been stolen. The evidence showed that the defendants submitted more than 30 fraudulent loans to lenders around the country on properties located in Broward County, Florida.
Mr. Acosta commended the investigative efforts of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the State of Florida Office of Financial Regulation, the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jeffrey Kay and Jennifer Keene of the Fort Lauderdale Office.
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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. 
