Sidney Okosun, 41, a Nigerian national residing in Washington, D.C., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. to 18 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud mortgage lenders. Judge Williams also ordered Okosun to pay restitution of $2,165,191. Continue Reading...
14 Bay Area residents have been indicted and charged with conspiracy to manufacture at least 1000 marijuana plants and manufacturing at least 1000 marijuana plants arising out of a wide-scale, sophisticated indoor marijuana cultivation operation in the Central Valley, California. The federal grand jury also returned a separate indictment charging five Bay Area residents with 26 counts of mail fraud in
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Micah John Beaumia, 29, Alexandria, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering for to concealing more than $400,000 in payments to himself and others from mortgage loan proceeds. He entered his plea in Minneapolis before United States District Court Judge James Rosenbaum. As previously
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Barry C. Westergom, 60, Jacksonville, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire and bank fraud. Westergom faces a maximum penalty of thirty years in federal prison and a fine of $1million.
According to court documents, the charges arise out of Westergom‘s involvement in a scheme in which a co-conspirator, Juan Carlos
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California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued a consumer alert warning California homeowners to avoid individuals and businesses that charge up up-front fees for foreclosure relief services in light of a just-enacted state law that makes this “abusive practice” subject to prosecution.
“Over the past two years, unscrupulous attorneys and real estate brokers have abused their trusted roles and exploited desperate homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure,” Brown said.
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A Jamaican woman was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison and ordered to pay US$110,000 in restitution for her part in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme dubbed ‘Operation Whose House’.
Charges have been unsealed against 41 defendants, in eight separate cases, for allegedly engaging in various mortgage fraud scams that collectively defrauded lenders out of more than $64 million in home mortgage loans on more than 100 properties across New York State. Among those charged are six lawyers, seven loan officers, three mortgage brokers, an accountant, and a residential property appraiser.
As part of the coordinated takedown
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Sabrina Weinberg, 44, Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud arising from a multi-million dollar mail fraud scheme to purchase numerous properties in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC, using fraudulent
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Kara McIntosh, 47, Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud arising from the fraudulent purchase of properties in Maryland and the District of Columbia using false mortgage documents. Judge Motz also
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Ebhomielen and the other defendants participated in a scheme to obtain large mortgage loans from Flaherty Funding by submitting false information and documents to Flaherty Funding during the mortgage loan approval process.