Anita Mendoza, 44, Chino Hills, California, has been arrested by Investigators with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Real Estate Fraud Unit for eight felony counts including grand theft, forgery, and filing forged documents with the County Recorder’s Office.
In 2006, Mendoza allegedly forged the victim’s signature on a Grant Deed and Deeds of Trust. Two
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Operation Loan Lies, a coordinated national law enforcement effort to crack down on mortgage modification scams, involves 189 actions by 25 federal and state agencies against defendants who deceptively marketed foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification services.
“These con artists see the high foreclosure rates as an opportunity to prey on people in distress,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said. “They promise to rescue
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Reginald Davis, 41, West Palm Beach, Florida, and formerly of Dallas, has pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Don D. Bush.
According to information presented in court, Davis admitted he conspired with another individual, identified as a real estate
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Kurt Fordham, 39, Ft. Washington, Maryland, has been senteced to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that falsely promised to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes and repair their damaged credit. Fordham was also ordered to pay restitution of
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Shawn Corcas, 39, St. Albans, New York, pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a 68-year-old Jamaica, Queens, man who had been disabled as a result of a stroke and then secretly selling his house out from under him and pocketing the profits.
The defendant pleaded guilty before Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grosso to one count of second-degree grand larceny and one-count of first-degree falsifying business records. He
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Marc A. Bernstein, 54, New York, New York, a lawyer, was indicted and charged with stealing settlement and escrow monies from his clients. This second indictment charges the defendant with stealing more than $1.5 million from five clients. This follows a previous indictment that was unsealed on May 19, 2009 charging the defendant with stealing $652,600 from 11 medical malpractice and personal injury clients. The total amount the
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Frederick Earle Deen, III, 29, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. He entered his plea July 1, 2009, before United States District Court Judge Richard Kyle. Deen was charged on April 21, 2009.
According to Deen’s plea
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Francis R. Conti, 42, Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to thirty—˜three months in jail and ordered to pay $46,183.91 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy and mail fraud.
United States District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin imposed the sentence on Conti. According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Christian A.
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Jonathan Boxman, 46, an owner and operator of real estate title insurance companies, was charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with defrauding clients of title companies he controlled of more than $1.7 million. According to the criminal complaint, Boxman stole money that was entrusted to those companies and used it to pay operating expenses associated with his failing
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Uto Essien, 45, the ringleader of a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud operation, has been convicted by an Adams County jury on four felony charges all related to the use of shell corporations and false invoices to skim money off the top of nearly three-dozen real estate transactions, announced Colorado Attorney General John Suthers.
Essien’s conviction resulted from a 45-count,
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