Victoria l. Sprouse, a lawyer from Charlotte, North Carolina, was charged in a November 6, 2008, Superceding Indictment with perjury, conspiracy to commit money laundering, mail, wire and bank fraud. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, the charges arose from multiple alleged mortgage fraud schemes involving
Continue Reading...Kimberly Taylor, 40, Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox to 70 months’ imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release. The Court also imposed restitution in the amount of $91,933.41.
A Federal Grand Jury returned a Criminal Indictment on October 24, 2007. At her arraignment on July 10, 2008, Taylor pled
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Richard Winer, 33, Tempe, Arizona, has been sued by Attorney General Terry Goddard for an alleged foreclosure rescue operation believed to have defrauded approximately 400 Arizonans of their homes.
The Complaint alleges that between 2003 and 2007, Winer, through his limited liability
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Terri J. Hart, 46, Fayetteville, North Carolina, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, which has a maximum penalty of up to five years imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine followed by three years of supervised release.
As previously reported on Mortgage Fraud Blog, the
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William Athan, 63, Shelton, Connecticut and Naples, Florida, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford, Connecticut, to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud related to a $3.6 million mortgage fraud scheme.
According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, Athan,
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FMA Servicing, Inc., Orlando, Florida, a loan modification company, has been temporarily enjoined by the Orange County Circuit Court from charging up-front fees to homeowners for loan modification services. According to the order, FMA Servicing must comply with written notice requirements contained in the Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act.
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Kamau Herndon, 37, Portland, Oregon, has been indicted and charged with six counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, three counts of money laundering, and one count of aggravated identity theft in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Continue Reading...
Manpreet Singh, 25, Stockton, California, has been sentenced to six months of home detention and five years’ probation for mail fraud for her part in a mortgage fraud scheme. As a special term of probation, she was ordered to pay $1,000 a month in restitution to the victim of her mortgage fraud scam. And she was also ordered to pay $163,500 in restitution. As Continue Reading...
The following four indviduals were arrested Wednesday, February 11, 2009, for allegedly defrauding financially troubled homeowners out of more than $1 million in property. The alleged victims were all Polynesian and were offered new mortgages to help save their homes from foreclosure. The defendants allegedly had straw buyers purchase the properties and then took out all of the equity.
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The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office set up a special hotline number for those who are victims of “house stealing”.
The number for the Economic Crime Complaint Hotline is 215-686-9901. Callers should leave a message and a number where investigators may contact them.
Saying that that the defendants “are intent on ripping people off by villainy and treachery,” District Attorney Lynne Abraham held a news conference to release the results of a Grand Jury
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