Shawn L. Portmann, a former senior vice president and loan officer at Pierce Commercial Bank, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release for a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in the collapse of the bank.
Continue Reading...Safiyyah Tahir Battles, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, formerly a real estate agent with T&T Realty, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mortgage fraud and money laundering.
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney says four people have been arrested in an alleged $15 million mortgage fraud scheme. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman says 40-year-old Fredric M. Diantonio of Wildwood…
Continue Reading...Steven J. Mascarenas, 53, Westminster, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 72 months in federal prison for wire fraud, making a false statement to a pretrial services officer, and escape.
Continue Reading...Bay News 9We’re told it’s part of a nearly three-year investigation conducted by a Mortgage Fraud Task Force, made up of the FBI, Daytona Beach Shores Police Department and Florida Division of Financial Service…
Continue Reading...A Reynoldsburg man was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for defrauding lenders of $3.6 million in mortgage loans. Kevin D. Hightower, 44, of Reynoldsburg was sentenced to 30 months in prison, five year…
Continue Reading...Bay News 9 FBI seizes local company’s docs in mortgage fraud case. Federal agents were seen carrying boxes out of a Port Orange business Thursday morning after…
Continue Reading...A Plum, Allegheny County, attorney has pleaded guilty to operating a complex, $1.7 million fraud scheme whose victims included two of her relatives. Lisa Gerideau-Williams, 46, pleaded guilty Jan. 25 before…
Continue Reading...Filippos “Filip” Milios, 54, Newington, Connecticut, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with bank fraud stemming from his alleged involvement in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme in the greater Hartford, Connecticut area.
Continue Reading...Fredric M. Diantonio, 40, Wildwood, New Jersey; Louis V. Catarro, 60, Runnemede, New Jersey; Kathryn W. Lockwood, 43, Wildwood Crest, New Jersey; and Thomas E. Morello, 55, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, were taken into custody for their alleged roles in a $15 million mortgage fraud scheme.
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