Wayne Reed Ogden, 48, Koosharem, Utah, charged with wire and securities fraud in connection with a Ponzi scheme involving real estate, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud.
Daniel A. Vivas, 40, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy that caused more than $2.5 million in losses to various banks and mortgage lenders.
Fred Haywood, 42, Chicago, Illinois, a former loan officer, was sentenced to more than 12 1/2 years in federal prison for engaging in a mortgage fraud scheme involving 65 real estate transactions with properties located mostly in economically depressed neighborhoods on the city’s south side which netted him personally more than $700,000.
Jeffrey Garbinski, 44, Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and money laundering in connection with siphoning money from real estate closings intended to pay off mortgages.
David Kinney, 54, Woodbridge, Connecticut, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme and for making false statements to federal law enforcement.
Thomas Komasa, 48, and his wife Heidi Komasa, 40, former Vermont residents, who now live in Saugerties, New York, were sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, following their mortgage fraud convictions in the summer of 2012.
Francis Santore, a/k/a Frank Martin, 53, Northfield, New Jersey, a former employee in the New Jersey offices of the Vacation Ownership Group LLC admitted that he conspired to defraud owners of timeshare properties by offering phony consulting services and debt elimination while also illegally collecting unemployment benefits.
John Lebron, 33, Tampa, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced to 26 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud affecting a financial institution, and making false statements to a financial institution.
Vincent J. Garcia, 61, Albuquerque, New Mexico, a real estate developer, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his bank fraud conviction. Garcia also was ordered to pay $722,543.76 in restitution to the banks that were the victims of his criminal conduct.
Joseph Robert Guernsey, 39, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was sentenced by United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell to 21 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $141,206.39 for bank fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344.