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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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. was charged in a federal bill of information and a deferred prosecution agreement, which were filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The criminal charges and accompanying agreement relate to Beazer’s participation in a fraudulent scheme designed to increase Beazer
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Ramon Coscolluela, 30, Union, New Jersey, a commercial loan broker, was charged by a State grand jury with one count each of theft by deception (second degree) and attempted theft by deception (second degree). Coscolluela, owner of Templar Group LLC, Newark, New Jersey, allegedly falsified five loan applications submitted to
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Craig Heller, 49, has been charged with for Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He was due back in court June 25, 2009.
Heller, acting as escrow agent, was hired in November 2007 to remit a settlement check for more than $82,000 to the partial owner of a
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Mayer Goldberger, 50, Brooklyn, New York, has been charged with Grand Larceny in the First Degree, Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, and Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He was arrested by DA Investigators. He is scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court, Hempstead.
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Daryl D. Ihde, 54, now of Glen Haven, Wisconsin, who formerly farmed in Garnavillo, Iowa, was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution to the United States on June 17, 2009, in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Ihde received the prison term after a January 8, 2009, guilty plea to one count of converting grain that had been mortgaged to the Continue Reading...
Rosario Divins, 55, San Antonio, Texas, who claimed to be a foreclosure prevention specialist, has been found guilty by federal jury on seven counts each of criminal contempt and mail fraud.
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