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.
Continue Reading...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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Rothenberger was one of five people involved in a mortgage scheme designed to create kickbacks for buyers and extra cash for those running the scam. The indictment states lenders were misled about the buyer…
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By Anonymous AP The leader of a $6.7 million mortgage fraud scheme involving a home in Gates Mills, Ohio, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States attorney for the…
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Michael Frank Burgess,69, Alpharetta, Georgia, was sentenced byChief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a real estate fraud scheme.
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Thirteen additional defendants were charged in two separate indictments in the Vera Kuzmenko mortgage fraud investigation in California. The current indictments bring the total charged in this investigation to twenty-three. The two most recent indictments involve some of the straw buyers that participated in the scheme.
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