Archives For North Carolina

Randy Alan Carpenter, 54, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury for operating a scheme to defraud federally insured banks and individual investors out of over $82 million in residential mortgage loan proceeds.

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Terry Scott Hyder, 51, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to serve seven years in a federal prison for defrauding eldery investors by advising them to invest in “real estate trusts.”

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Gary Kevin Coats pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge David W. Daniel to bankruptcy fraud for forging a buyer’s name and initials on a offer to purchase a condominium.  The bankruptcy court was unaware that Coats had made a side deal to received additional funds upon the sale.

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Eric Omar Jones, 41, Clinton, North Carolina, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III to 151 months’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release for leading a straw borrower scam that involved more than $1 million in ill-gotten gains.

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A federal indictment in the Western District of North Carolina has charged ten individuals with various criminal counts including mortgage fraud conspiracy and bank bribery conspiracy has been unsealed upon the arrests of most of the defendants.

Drew Sharreff-El, A/K/A “Mack Ahizi”, 46, Charlotte, North Carolina, has been charged with one count alleging mortgage fraud

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Stevie Perkale Lee, 38, Weddington, North Carolina, has entered a plea of guilty to two federal criminal counts filed in a criminal bill of information in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, North Carolina. The counts against Lee charge that he, as President of “VP Companies USA,” and “Continue Reading...

Cindy Tilley Greer, 51, Clarendon, North Carolina, was sentenced by United States District Judge W. Earl Britt to 36 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. A day later, on October 6, 2009, Stanley Garfield Williams, Jr., 38, Bolivia, North Carolina, received 70 months’ imprisonment followed by five years supervised release and a fine

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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

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Maurice Eugene Jenkins, 41, Wilson, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, to bank fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344.

A Criminal Information was filed on March 26, 2009. According to the Information, in approximately late 2002 to May, 2008, Jenkins devised a scheme to defraud Continue Reading...

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

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