Sharmon Howell, a/k/a “Sharmon Wade,” 37, Queens, New York, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels for his role as the leader of a “subprime” mortgage fraud scheme involving more than two dozen fraudulent loans valued at over $10 million. Howell pled guilty to his role in the mortgage fraud scheme in June 2010.
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Anthony Onua, 44, a Brooklyn, New York lawyer, pleaded guilty to Count 1 of the Indictment admitting his role in a mortgage fraud scheme using straw borrowers and inflated appraisals to defraud lenders. The Court accepted Onua‘s guilty plea and set sentencing for February 4, 2011 at 11:30 AM before Senior Judge I. Leo Glasser.
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Eric Koppelman, 49, Hauppauge, New York, a former title closer, was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a scheme to steal over $6 million in proceeds of home mortgage loans. The stolen funds were intended to be used to pay off existing mortgages on the properties.
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Shih Siang Shawn Liao, 35, Manhattan, New York, an international businessman has been sentenced to three to nine years in state prison for having used a forged power of attorney to unlawfully obtain a mortgage on his mother-in-law’s condominium in the Little Neck section of Queens, New York and steal more than $300,000. The
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Eliyahu Ezagui, 49, a real estate developer in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, and five counts of bank fraud.
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Loius Cherico, 69, Eastchester, New York, a lawyer who practiced in New York City and Westchester County, New York, has been charged with participating in a wide-ranging scheme to commit mortgage fraud, obstruction of justice, and money laundering.
According to the Indictment filed in federal court, from July through December of 2002, Cherico participated in a
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Adam C. Hochfelder, 38, New York, New York, has been arrested and indicted on charges of defrauding investors in two real estate deals, following an investigation by the Manhattan, New York, District Attorney’s Office. The indictment charges Hochfelder with engaging in schemes to steal approximately $2.5 million from investors in his purported acquisition of the Continue Reading...
Janet Salazar, a.k.a. Yanet Salazar, 37, Queens Village, New York, a loan officer, has been convicted of stealing the personal identity of a former client to help another client purchase a house in Brooklyn. Salazar was convicted of first-degree identity theft, third-degree unlawful possession of personal identification information and third degree criminal possession of
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BernardB. Kerik, 54, former Commissioner of the New York City Police Department and the Department of Corrections, pleaded guilty in White Plains federal court to eight felonies, two of which were separately charged in an Indictment in the District of Columbia.
Kerik pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing and impeding the due
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Hugh Zuber, 39, Monsey, New York, a lawyer formerly employed by the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud arising from his participation in schemes to defraud two former clients. Zuber had represented the clients, in a personal capacity, in connection with their sale of real estate to Continue Reading...
