Nine of ten individuals from New Jersey were arrested by in connection with their alleged roles in a $40 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and straw buyers to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos at the Jersey Shore and resort destinations in South Carolina and Georgia, N.J.
Continue Reading...Thomas Bannon, 80, New York, New York; Robert Bardey, 79, New York, New York; and Theodore Sweeten, 59, Ashland, Oregon, have been indicted in $5 milliion bank fraud scheme.
Garret Griffith Gililland, III, 31, formerly of Chico and Paradise, California, was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in prison and a three-year term of supervised release. Shane Burreson, 39, Orland, California, was sentenced to 23 months in prison and a three-year term of supervised release. Both pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering stemming from their involvement in Nor-Cal Innovative Investments, Chico, California.
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Michael S. Hurd, 37, Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison on charges connected to a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving properties at a Hurricane, Utah, subdivision.
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Shawna Lea Pennington, 40, Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced in United States District Court to six months in prison and six months of home detention for bank fraud and bankruptcy fraud.
Interthinx has released its quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Report covering data collected in the second quarter of 2012. According to the most recent analysis, overall risk resumed its upward climb after a one…
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Augustus C. Okoye, 49, Milton, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court for engaging in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the theft of another person’s identity.
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Ronald Harris Jr., 42, Piscataway, New Jersey, formerly of West Orange, New Jersey, who owned and operated multiple foreclosure rescue companies was sentenced for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded numerous mortgage lenders of more than $10 million.
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Gloria A. Allen, 49, Madison, Alabama, Crystal S. Douglas, 30, Huntsville, Alabama, Julie Melissa McBrayer, 32, Birmingham, Michael Joseph Bennett, 38, Birmingham, and Danielle Lacey Chavers, 36, Birmingham, are the subjects of fraud charges in connection with false statements made in mortgage loan applications.
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Jesus Baca and Ramon Dy-Ragos, co-managers of “Save Your House” and Luis Baca, an employee of the company, were prosecuted for conspiring to knowingly and falsely promote the business as a foreclosure defense firm.
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