A federal grand jury has indicted a Highland couple for allegedly committing mortgage fraud by using straw buyers to get loans on high-end homes at falsely inflated prices. Portia R. Louder, 40, faces three…
Continue Reading...Deborah Kitay, 53, Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti to 18 months in prison for her participation in a mortgage fraud conspiracy involving loan application misrepresentations and appraisal fraud.
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To date in 2011, more than a dozen people have been charged federally with mortgage fraud and related crimes in the District of Minnesota.
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Robinson Dinh Nguyen, 31, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to Conspiracy to Commit Mail, Wire and Bank Fraud in connection with his employment as a real estate agent for Crisp & Cole Associates, aka Crisp & Cole Real Estate.
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Deean Haggerty, 37, of New Castle, today became the first to plead guilty among the three men charged with mortgage-related fraud in connection with the firm Easy Realty Solutions, run by James C. Platts. …
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Gerald and Judith Williams are headed to a prison in Louisiana on Tuesday for conspiracy after police said they falsely received mortgage loans from January 2005 to October 2006. The scheme set lenders back…
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According to the announcement, either of the two attorneys would then act as a closing agent for Dukhman, who would purchase the REO property using the proceeds of the mortgage fraud scheme. After paying…
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Abdelghany Antar, 66, East Haven, was sentenced by United States District Judge Christopher F. Droney in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for devising and leading a mortgage fraud scheme in New Haven County, Connecticut.
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Steven J. Baum, P.C., one of the largest volume mortgage foreclosure firms in New York State, entered into a settlement agreement that requires the firm to pay $2 million to the United States and to extensively change its practices with respect to mortgage foreclosure actions.
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William Doug Mitchell, 50, Fort Worth, Texas, was convicted by a jury after one hour of deliberation for his role in a complex mortgage fraud scheme that targeted homes across North Texas.
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