Andrew John Smith, 29, Cleveland, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge William C. O’Kelley to serve over 3 years in prison on a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bank, wire and mail fraud arising from a mortgage fraud scheme.
Smith was sentenced to 3 years, 6 months in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. The court has ordered
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Aaron Dare, Albany, NY, pled guilty to (2) counts of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a Class “C” Felony in front of the Honorable Thomas Breslin. This plea comes as a result of crimes that were committed after Dare pled guilty to another set of federal charges and was sentenced, as previously Continue Reading...
Terence Mayfield, 47, Phoenixille, PA, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez to one count each of mail and wire fraud for his role in operating two ponzi schemes upon members of a Toms River church which resulted in total losses of more than $1 million. Judge Rodriguez released the defendant on a $100,000 bond pending sentencing, which is scheduled for July 14.
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Your Credit Angel, LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada, which purports to assist distressed homeowners in avoiding foreclosure by offering mortgage loan modification services, was issued an order to cease and desist by the Idaho Department of Finance.
“A person engaged as a third party in mortgage loan modification activities in Idaho must be licensed as a credit counselor,” said Gavin Gee, director of the Idaho Department of Finance.
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Twenty-four individuals have been charged with using a corrupt enterprise to conduct a pattern of racketeering activity, namely, wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. The charged racketeering activity all stems from an extensive mortgage fraud scheme based in San Diego, California, that involved 220 properties with a total sales price of more than $100 million dollars.
The lead defendants charged with running the corrupt
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision today released their quarterly report on first lien mortgage performance for the fourth quarter of 2008. The report covers mortgages serviced by nine large banks and four thrifts, constituting approximately two-thirds of all outstanding mortgages in the United States.
The report showed that credit quality continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2008. At the end of the year, just under 90 percent
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Eliyahu Ezagui, 48, has been indicted on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud for masterminding a scheme to defraud banks, mortgage lenders, and residents of the Crown Heights community in Brooklyn, New York of approximately $18 million in connection with the fraudulent mortgaging of condominium apartment units.
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Larry J. Lupton, 33, Brookfield, Wisconsin, a real estate broker, has been found guilty of soliciting a kickback in connection with the State of Wisconsin’s attempted sale of a thirty million dollar state office building in downtown Madison. After hearing testimony and receiving evidence during a court trial earlier this month, United States District Judge Lynn Adelman issued a written decision in which he found Continue Reading...
Now that a lawyer has been arrested in connection with a bizarre real estate fraud that allegedly recruited straw buyers at a dominatrix club, he has standing to challenge the warrant that authorized a raid on his law office last month, his attorney said Thursday.
24 defendants, most of whom are professionals in the mortgage loan industry, were named in 10 indictments charging them with federal offenses relating to mortgage fraud in the Chicago, Illinois area. The cases include:
United States v. Mohammed Ali Moallem and Bahidad Javid (09 CR 228)
