Edmund Chatham, Roswell, Georgia, and Steven Connelly, Alpharetta, Georgia, have been indicted by a Fulton County Grand Jury and charged with one count of Racketeering (O.C.G.A. §16-14-4(a)) for their role in a scheme using senior citizens to fraudulently obtain payouts from mortgage lenders for reverse mortgages.
James Thomas Webb, 52, Leland, North Carolina, a former real estate developer, was sentenced to 327 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. The court further ordered that Webb make total restitution of $11,946,739.80 to his victims.
Jose Filgueiras, 43, and his wife, Raquel Filgueiras, 39, both of Miami, Florida, were sentenced for their roles in a $2.4 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Eric Gagnepain, 41, Nixa, MIssouri, who was a co-owner of Greenleaf Companies, has pleaded guilty in federal court to aiding and abetting a bank fraud conspiracy that was part of a multi-million-dollar mortgage investment scheme.
Tega Burns, 41, Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for committing tax fraud and mortgage fraud. Burns was also ordered to serve two years under court supervision following her prison term and to pay $201,039.43 in restitution to IRS, $57,450.00 in restitution to Bank of America, and $48,483.00 in restitution to CIT Group/Consumer Finance.
Sandra Elaine Barton, 30, Fresno, California, Christopher Spencer Barton, 31, Fresno, California, Daniel Paul Vedenoff, 29, Fresno, California, Sheldon W. Feigel, 50, Fresno, California, and Craig Merrill Mortensen, Fresno, California, were arrested and charged with 288 felony counts including perjury, filing false court records and preparing false evidence. The five individuals arrested were booked into the Fresno County Jail on bail ranging from $27,500 to $1,795,000. Cambria Lisa Barton, 21, Fresno, California, who was also charged, remains at large.
David R. Sharrock, 71, Mansfield, Ohio, was sentenced to 135 months in prison and ordered to pay $767,462 in restitution for his role a mortgage fraud scheme which caused approximately $1.3 million in losses to five lending institutions.
William Glasgow, 72, Town and Country, Missouri, James Crews, 56, Wentzville, Missouri, and Michael Hilbert, 62, St. Charles, Missouri, surrendered on January 10, 2014, to authorities on two separate indictments alleging bank fraud against TARP recipient Excel Bank.
Thomas Provenzano, 47, Torrington, Connecticut, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to multiple conspiracy offenses stemming from his involvement in a series of fraudulent real estate transactions.
Fidencio Moreno, Arturo Moreno, and Elena Moreno were charged in a superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, eleven counts of filing a false tax return, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and seven counts of making false statements on a loan application.