Celia Gallardo, 42, North Hills, California, a real estate agent and self-described real estate investor, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and remanded into custody for her offenses, which included ripping off real estate investors.
Jeffrey Whaley, 49, Sevierville, Tennessee, was sentenced on July 1, 2013, by the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve five years in prison for his May 2012 federal convictions for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering, all arising from a mortgage fraud scheme.
Elizabeth Glosemeyer, St. Louis County, Missouri, was indicted on two counts of wire fraud.
Robert Packnett, 47, New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty as charged before the U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to a bill of information charging him with one count of bank fraud.
Roger K. Howard, 50, Englewood, Colorado, pled guilty recently before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to three counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
Sylvia Odia Thomas, 40, formerly of West Chester, Ohio was sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $313,021 in restitution to lenders and $95,422.14 to the IRS for crimes she committed as part of a mortgage fraud scheme.
Haider Zafar, 35, formerly of Dublin, Ohio, has been arrested in connection with a $10 million fraud scheme involving false representations about investments in Pakistani real estate.
Jose Miguel Aguilar, Rancho Cucamonga, California, pled guilty to two felony counts of grand theft and one felony count of money laundering.
Wesley Barta, Oakland, California, Irma Galvez, Pacheco, California, Stan Kahan, Berkeley, California, and Joseph Vesce, San Francisco, four Northern California real estate investors, have agreed to plead guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.
Raymond Paczkowski, Jr., 78, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, a former attorney, has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in connection with stealing more than $400,000 from multiple clients, one of whom was disabled. The defendant stole money that had been entrusted to him by clients seeking help to pay off mortgages or as part of the probate of an estate.