COLUMBIA, SC United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Robert C Sasser, age 32, of Lexington, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia for wire fraud, a violation of 18 United States…
Continue Reading...Tucson Citizen The objective of the conspiracy was to recruit unqualified borrowers as straw buyers, submit fraudulent loan applications on their behalf and on his own behalf, obtain mortgage loans in excess of…
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Cusic and Frey were arrested in April on charges including extortion and wire fraud. Frey’s attorney didn’t return a call for comment. Cusic and Frey beginning in January 2011 falsely told four clients who…
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Charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against eight Northern California real estate investors. Each has agreed to plead guilty for their roles in two separate conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.
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Steve Zaven Kessedjian, 48, Los Angeles, California, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with mail fraud for a mortgage fraud scheme. Kessedjian was arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents and appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in Los Angeles, California.
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Angeline Lisa Lizarrago, 69, Fremont, California, was sentenced to five years for a foreclosure scam in which dozens of struggling Bay Area and Central Valley homeowners paid for foreclosure services that were never delivered.
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MATTHEW KENT, University City, Missouri, pled guilty to one felony count of wire fraud, appearing before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel. Sentencing has been set for February 17, 2012. Wire fraud…
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Syed A. Babar, 28, of New London, was accused of leading a mortgage fraud ring that federal prosecutors said included an unlicensed lawyer, a dishonest appraiser, a phony construction company, people who posed…
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Chris Malcom, one of the men behind a $6.9 million mortgage-fraud scheme uncovered in a 2006 Tampa Tribune investigation, was sentenced this week to 51 months in federal prison. Judge Susan Bucklew also ordered…
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In February, a 29-count federal indictment was returned against 12 people accused of taking part in mortgage fraud, including loan officer Stephen Holman, 40, of Cleveland and his brother Timothy, 44…
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