Yanay Aguirre, 24, Las Vegas, Nevada, Maria Lorena Anzu, 39, in custody in the Clark County Detention Center, Jose Benjamin Rodriguez, 39, (whereabouts unknown), Rodolfo Cruz, 75, Las Vegas, Silvia Patricia De La Cruz, 34, Franklin David Marquez, 49, in custody in Los Angeles County Jail, Jose Gilberto Navidad, 54, in custody in the Clark County Detention Center, and Roberto Vargas, 51, Hesperia, California, have each been charged with multiple counts of mortgage lending fraud and theft.

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Charles Head, 36, Los Angeles, California, and Jeremy Michael “Mike” Head, 33, Huntington Beach, California, were convicted by a federal jury in Sacramento, after a nearly four-week trial.

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James Monahan, 43, New York, New York, the owner of a real estate investment company called Panam Management Group, Inc., and a former sergeant in the New York City Police Department, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in connection with his participation in a fraudulent real estate scheme.

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Robert Leo Rick, 52, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, was sentenced for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded mortgage lenders out of at least $7 million.

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Timothy D. Burns, 33, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information in a $20 million fraud scheme that involved mail fraud, wire fraud and loan fraud.

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Andrew D. Norman, 36, Akron, Ohio, man was sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $15 million in restitution for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in Florida and a separate scheme to defraud two elderly investors.

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Peterson Cherimond, 36, Dorchester, Massachusetts, was sentenced for operating a mortgage fraud scheme to sell his own home and to buy other residential properties.

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Diane M. Hathaway, 58, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison after having pleaded guilty in January 2013 to committing bank fraud in connection with a property in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.

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Dennis Wayne Parris, Senior Vice President of Phoenix Housing Group (PHG), has been indicted in the Western District of North Carolina and charged with conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud.

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George Lindell, 65, and Holly Hoaeae, 39, Honolulu, Hawaii, are the subjects of a 17-count indictment for allegedly operating a pyramid or Ponzi scheme between January 2005 and November 2010.

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