Jeanette R. Salsi, Alice Lorraine Barneyand and Sonja Lightfoot, each of whom played important roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that crippled now defunct Pierce Commercial Bank were sentenced in U.S. District…

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COLUMBUS Deborah L. Kistner, 50, and her husband, Mark A. Kistner, 52, both of Hilliard, pleaded guilty three days after their trial started on a $7 million mortgage fraud scheme they carried out between…

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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to reduce the prison sentence for Tommy Hix — who pleaded guilty in 2010 to mail fraud charges related to the failed Bahama Island condominium…

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Columbia, South Carolina —- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Scott M. Wickersham, age 33, of Summerville, pled guilty today in federal court in Charleston, to one count of Conspiracy…

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Last Friday, two New Jersey residents were charged in an elaborate mortgage fraud scheme. According to the charges, the alleged crimes took place from 2007 to 2008. Both defendants had been working as loan…

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TAMPA United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces that Anthony Haynes (53, Seffner) today pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud affecting a financial institution. He faces a maximum penalty of 30…

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Jeanette R. Salsi, Alice Lorraine Barneyand and Sonja Lightfoot, each of whom played important roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that crippled now defunct Pierce Commercial Bank were sentenced in U.S. District Court. All three of the women worked for years with scheme leader Shawn Portmann, whose fraudulent loans resulted in losses of more than $10 million.

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Schelton Assoumou, 36, Brooklyn, New York, a real estate developer, was arrested on charges of bank fraud and wire fraud for his participation in a multi-year mortgage fraud scheme.

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Xochitl Cervantes, 35, Las Vegas, Nevada, has been criminally charged for her involvement in a mortgage lending fraud case involving several victims operating under the name of CSR Services.

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WXYZ The mortgage fraud case includes a home on the 5100 block of Porath, as well as several Dearborn Heights homes. The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) received a complaint that Salami…

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