Tahir Ali Khan, the leader of a ring that used fake identification documents to bilk over 50 financial institutions out of more than $24 million, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Loretta A. Preska to 14 years in prison. Khan was indicted, along with 14 other co-defendants, in a multi-count Indictment unsealed on August 15, 2007. Today’s sentence follows

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...

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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Alexander Kaplan, Brooklyn, New York, was found guilty of participating in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme, after a two-week jury trial in Manhattan federal court, on all eighteen counts in the Indictment against him.

According to the evidence at trial, statements made in open court, and the Indictment:

From late 2004 through January 2007, Kaplan and his