Michael A. Meisner, 52, Boca Raton, Florida, pled guilty before the Honorable U.S. Magistrate Judge James M. Hopkins to a three-count Information filed on September 2, 2009, which charged mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C.§ 1341, loan application fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1014, and tax evasion, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201. Bond was set at a $500,000 corporate surety bond, and a $500,000 personal surety
Continue Reading...Canty and others conspirators perpetrated this scheme by identifying distressed homeowners whose properties in Washington, D.C., and Maryland were facing imminent foreclosure and offering to purchase their properties.
Authorities say real estate agents and mortgage brokers used straw buyers with good credit ratings and low income to fraudulently obtain loans. Properties were sold and resold within the alleged ring.
Despite the defendant’s pleas that the world needs a Christian man like him, a Hennepin County judge Thursday gave Marlon Pratt 10 years in prison, more time than the prosecutor sought for 17 theft by swindle and two racketeering convictions.
Eugene J. Lockhart, Jr., 48, Carrollton, Texas, a former player with the Dallas Cowboys, and eight others, have been indicted on various charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme he and the others allegedly ran in the Dallas, Texas area from 2001 through 2005. Lockhart and co-defendant Continue Reading...
Edward J. Safdie, 71, Madison, Connecticut, was sentenced September 1, 2009, by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for engaging in a fraud scheme during which he received funding from multiple sources to assist him in purchasing The Inn at Chester, Chester, Connecticut. On January
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Ronald Brvenik, Prince Frederick, MD, a real estate appraiser licensed in the state of Maryland, was charged in 2003, along with 9 others, for allegedly providing false appraisals in an illegal flipping scheme. The charges against Brvenik were dismissed before trial. Brvenik then moved to obtain an order against the
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Eleven people were arraigned Friday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on 96 charges in what prosecutors say was a $14.7 million mortgage fraud scheme involving seven upscale houses, some with waterfront views.
12 defendants and 3 companies were indicted on mortgage fraud offenses, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first degree felony, for securing $14,766,515 in fraudulent loans used to purchase seven homes in Cuyahoga, Ottawa and Lucas counties, Ohio. Six of the seven houses fell into foreclosure. The
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The defense attorney for one of two Monterey County people accused of real estate fraud argued Friday that Gonzales police should have informed his client of her Miranda rights before they questioned her in June.