Jared Mitchell Rothenberger, 43, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to defrauding mortgage lenders out of millions of dollars in connection with the sale of condominiums at Chateau Ridge, Burnsville, Minnesota.

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Brian Christopher Morris, 46, Boynton Beach, Florida was sentenced to 14 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release for his role in a scam where purported buyers were found to purchase time share properties.

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SACRAMENTO ( Source: John Holland The Modesto Bee (MCT) Authorities on Friday arrested a Bay Area man accused of running a mortgage-relief scam that reached into the Northern San Joaquin Valley and…

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Daily Business Buzz [FREDERICTON, NB]  A New Brunswick mortgage broker has been sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding a bank of more than $5,000 and uttering forged documents. William Priest…

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Alan David Tikal, 44, Brentwood, Contra Costa County, Calif., was arrested at his home on a complaint charging him with mail fraud for masterminding a multistate scam that defrauded distressed homeowners.

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J. Christopher Daly, 49, New York, New York, and Michael Abreu, 43, Carmel, New York, two former executives at a real estate development and management company, were sentenced to 15 months and one year and one day in prison, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain $2.2 million from a foreign-owned bank.

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Source: Paul Owers Sun Sentinel (MCT) South Florida’s housing bust appears to be over, but mortgage fraud investigators are still busy. A real estate agent and her sister were indicted by a federal…

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A San Francisco businessman, who with four partners illegally obtained $2.2 million in a mortgage fraud scheme, turned fugitive Sept. 20, after he was found guilty of 13 felony counts on money laundering…

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The Fort Lauderdale-Miami area had the nation’s third-highest number of reports of mortgage loan fraud during the 2011 fiscal year, according to a report released this summer by LexisNexis. Los Angeles was…

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Eric H. Menden, 53, Chesapeake, Virginia, was sentenced to 138 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in a $41 million bank fraud scheme that contributed to the failure of the Bank of the Commonwealth and a separate historic-tax-credit fraud scheme that cost state and federal governments over $12 million and investors more than $8 million.

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