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
Continue Reading...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.
The jury found that since January 2000, Divins engaged in a fraudulent foreclosure prevention scheme. Testimony during the three-day trial revealed that Continue Reading...
Rosario Divins, 55, San Antonio, Texas, has been found guilty by a federal jury on seven counts each of criminal contempt and mail fraud for engaging in a fraudulent foreclosure prevention scheme. Testimony during the three-day trial revealed that Divins unjustly enriched herself by collecting over $100,000 in cash from individuals in desperate financial situations who responded to
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Arthur James Marshall, Jr. has been charged in a twenty-two-count indictment with fraud and money laundering in his real estate ventures. It was reported in news coverage of the April 3, 2009 execution of a search warrant by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Marshall’s former office building that Marshall was a local
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Pierre Sowell, 37, Dallas, Texas, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Plano, Texas, for several counts of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme.
According to the indictment, Sowell and an unindicted, unnamed co-conspirator are alleged to have engaged in a scheme to make false statements to mortgage lenders to obtain
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Lee Howlett, 45, Portland, Oregon, who had pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering, will be sentenced on July 17, 2009. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog,
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