… Castro and her son, Orange County attorney Stephen Kenneth Chrysler, of multiple counts of wire fraud for their roles in an $8 million mortgage fraud scheme involving 16 separate homes in Oceanside…

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Keith B. Kovick, 61, Williston, North Dakota, pled guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering on April 25, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy.

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James P. Vasiliou, Jr., 46, Getzville, New York, pleaded guilty to bank fraud for his role in a mortgage scam. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.

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Patricia Ann King, 57, Bakersfield, California, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to three years and one month in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme and for aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax documents in connection with her tax preparation business.

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Six people””including women from Orange County and Tennessee””have been charged by Federal Prosecutors in relation to a multi-million-dollar real estate flipping scheme in which investors were promised titles to homes that could be easily resold but in fact did not have “clean” titles, were uninhabitable, or were simply worthless.

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Mr. Platts ran Easy Realty Solutions, which bought and sold properties, sometimes in transactions that included provision of false information on buyers’ income, assets and down payments to mortgage lenders…

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Sushama Devi Lohia, 74, Newport Beach, California, a mother convicted of conspiring with her two daughters and son-in-law to commit over $16 million in real estate fraud by forging documents and purchasing homes using straw buyers, was sentenced to eight years in state prison.

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Lawrence B. Stacy, Mobile, Alabama, a real estate investor, has agreed to plead guilty and to serve prison time for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama.

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(MCT) A jury convicted a Carlsbad mother and her Orange County son of an $8 million mortgage fraud scheme, the US Attorney for Southern California said Wednesday. Stephen Chrysler, an Orange County at

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By VIK JOLLY / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER SANTA ANA  An Irvine attorney has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and must pay $7.5 million to lenders in restitution for a mortgage-fraud scheme

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