Christopher B. Maselli, a former North Providence real estate attorney and former Rhode Island state senator, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence to 27 months in federal prison. Maselli pleaded guilty in November 2010 to eight counts of bank fraud, admitting that he falsified bank and federal tax documents and lied about his income and assets in obtaining more than $1.7
Continue Reading...Richard W. Northcutt, a real estate esecutive, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, California, to conspiring to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County, California. Northcutt pleaded guilty to conspiring with a group of real estate speculators who agreed not to bid against each other at certain
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Barnett R. Rogers, Orangeburg, New York has been arrested and arraigned for stealing over $175,000 from two former clients that he represented during the sale of their home in Piermont, New York. Rogers is charged with one count of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a Class “C” felony.
During the summer of 2004, Mr. Ralph Libone and his wife, Georgia Libone, retained Rogers to
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Egon Linzenberg, Hillburn, NY, was sentenced by County Court Judge Victor J. Alfieri, Jr. in the Rockland County Court to 1-3 years in state prison. The defendant was convicted of Grand Larceny in the 2nd Degree (1 count); Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the 2nd degree (2 counts) and Forgery in the 2nd Degree (4 counts) after an eight-day jury trial last January.
The defendant had been charged with stealing the house
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Alfred Eugene Parker, 32, Woodland Hills, California, a man who bilked more than 20 victims out of approximately $2 million in less than one year, has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison. Parker was sentenced by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who remanded the defendant into custody at the conclusion of the sentencing hearing. Continue Reading...
James William Fox II, 40, Crofton, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to 27 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which he promised to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes, but left them with no equity and no longer holding the title to their properties. At the sentencing
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Jeff McGrue, 51, Tacoma, Washington, was been found guilty of federal fraud charges for running a scheme that defrauded the owners of distressed homes by promising to delay or prevent foreclosure through a program that supposedly used notes backed by Treasury bonds to pay off mortgages.
McGrue was found guilty late Friday, January 21, 2011, by a federal jury of four counts of
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John Hemphill, 41, Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced to 7½ years in federal prison for posing as a federal government official in a scheme to sell properties he did not own out from underneath the real owners. The defendant was convicted August 2010, of mail fraud and false impersonation of a federal official following a week-long trial. Hemphill was also ordered to pay
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Latoya Travis, 38, Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by Senior Judge Rudy Lozano to 42 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to counts one and two of an indictment charging her with making false statements in a loan application, and aggravated identity theft.
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Steven Carlson, 52, Jamestown, New York, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to evading the payment of taxes and mortgage fraud. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
According to court documents, the defendant has a long history in the restaurant business. Carlson evaded the payment of his
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