Henry J. Papale, 62, Southington, Connecticut, pleaded guilty before Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to federal wire fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme.
Dennis Wayne Parris, 55, Pinehurst, N.C., former senior vice president of a manufactured housing retailer, Fabian Sparrow, 35, Burlington, N.C., Andrew B. McKeown, 38, Asheboro, N.C., two of his former sales managers, and Isaac “Ike” A. Vinson, IV, 46, Pawleys Island, S.C., a former loan officer associated with the retailer, have been indicted on federal charges involving a $158 million consumer and mortgage fraud conspiracy.
Walter Scott Fruit, 54, and Sandra Jackson, 48, both of Tucson, Arizona, were sentenced to federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson for their role in a mortgage fraud scheme. Fruit was sentenced to 30 months in prison; Jackson was sentenced to six months in prison.
Ruben Oscar Palagonia, 67, San Bernardino, California, was arraigned in San Bernardino Superior Court on Forgery and Identity Theft charges for allegedly obtaining a home mortgage loan with false credit information.
Christopher Robert Wise, 34, Denver, Colorado, who billed himself as “The Credit Line Millionaire,” has pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges that accuse him of conspiring to obtain lines of credit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars through a host of misrepresentations and falsified documents.
Donald V. Totten, 56, Oakland, California, an unlicensed mortgage broker who operated a mortgage brokerage business from Rancho Santa Fe, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he obtained $2.2 million in mortgage loans using false information and then siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of the properties.
Filippos Milios, also known as “Filip,” 54, Newington, Connecticut, Malgorzata Karas-Golka, also known as “Margaret,” 45, Newington, and Carmelinda Marotta, also known as “Linda,” 44, Manchester, Connecticut, have been indicted and charged with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the purchase of more than 40 properties throughout Connecticut.
Ruben Oscar Palagonia, 67, San Bernardino, California, was arraigned in San Bernardino Superior Court on Forgery and Identity Theft charges for allegedly obtaining a home mortgage loan with false credit information.
Chester D. Howard, also known as C. Daniel Howard, 41, Verona, Wisconsin, is charged in a seven-count indictment with making false statements. He is charged with five counts of falsely stating to banks that he was the owner of property as collateral for a loan, when he knew he was not the owner of the property.
Linda Cohen, 55, Orange, New Jersey, a paralegal, admitted participating in a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded financial institutions of at least $2 million.