Archives For California

Robert E. Rosenau, 46, Redding, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb to 15 months in prison for mail fraud in a fraudulent real estate investment scheme.

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Alonzo Jackson Brown III, 45, Fairfield, California, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for two different schemes to defraud that collectively resulted in losses of more than $2 million.

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Robert Rinehart, 49, Santa Cruz, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with eight counts of wire fraud.

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Sergio Gutierrez, 49, San Francisco, California, was sentenced to twelve years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of running a scheme in which he defrauded victims by telling them to stop paying their mortgages.

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Thomas Joseph O’Meara, III, 66, Palm Desert, California, a real estate developer, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering arising out of a real estate investment fraud scheme in which he defrauded more than 50 victims of more than $16 million.

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Simon Saeid Koli was sentenced in federal court to serve 30 months in custody, followed by three years’ supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving four expensive homes.

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Kaveh Vahedi, 51, Glendale, California, has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges admitting that he ran three separate scams, including a mortgage fraud scam and a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 30 families out of more than $8 million.

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Brandon Hanly, 32, Redding, California, was found guilty by a federal jury of wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering following a six-day mortgage fraud trial.

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Christopher J. Woods, 53, Sydney, Australia, who once worked as a jockey. has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for concealing the proceeds of a loan fraud scheme that caused victims to lose more than $5 million in less than eight months.

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Daniel Gherasim, 36, Citrus Heights, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bank fraud, false statements on a loan and credit application, money laundering, and structuring in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud a bank in obtaining a home equity loan.

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