Ryan William Costo, 37, Granite Bay, California, is the subject of a six-count indictment for mail, wire, and bank fraud, as well as making false statements to financial institutions, all in connection with various schemes to defraud lenders.

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National Legal and Policy CenterSoutheast Queens real estate magnate Edul Ahmad has reached a tentative plea agreement with federal investigators on charges that he orchestrated a $50 million mortgage fraud …

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Jimmy Hitchcock, 41, of Raleigh, has been charged with mortgage fraud, bank bribery and money laundering conspiracies. Investigators allege he was a promoter in a scheme that was targeted by an ongoing…

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SANTA ANA, California  LawFuel.com – US Attorney News – The owner of a Pasadena mortgage brokerage firm was sentenced today to 108 months in federal prison for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme…

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Joel Blanford, 44, San Ramon, California, was convicted by a federal jury on six counts of mail fraud.

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Maeble L. Hairston, 57, Red Bank, New Jersey, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal over $1 million from lenders by filing fraudulent mortgage applications, diverting mortgage proceeds and falsifying settlement statements.

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Svetlana Dubinsky, 48, Boca Raton, Florida; Serge Doubinski, 29, San Francisco, California; Zinayda Chekayda, 49, Antelope, California; Volodymyr Dubinsky, 53, formerly of Folsom, California; Leonid Doubinski, 47, formerly of Copperopolis, California; Edward Khalfin, 55, San Mateo, California; Robin Dimiceli, 50, Brentwood, California; Diana Woods, 55, Citrus Heights, California and Kory Schmidli, 34, Linden, California, have been charged in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving the purchase of at least 19 homes.

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Two Citigroup Inc. (C) executives are departing after federal prosecutors named them earlier this year in a mortgage-insurance fraud case that resulted in a $158.3 million settlement and an admission of…

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Mark J. Bellotti, 56, Marlboro, New Jersey, a lawyer, was sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $2.6 million from lenders by filing fraudulent mortgage loan applications.

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Paul DiGiacomo, 46, Madison, New Jersey, a lawyer, was sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a mortgage lender of $431,200 by filing a false loan application and purchasing a home in Newark, New Jersey in the name of a man who was deceased.

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