Jenny Chi Ha, aka Phuong A. Ha, 44, Fresno, California was sentenced to 21 months in prison for her role in fraudulently acquiring two residential properties in Fresno that were used for growing marijuana.
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Maher Muhawieh, 32, San Francisco, California, was sentenced to six and one-half years in prison after he admitted running an investment fraud scheme in which he defrauded family members, friends, and many other victims out of millions of dollars.
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Kenneth Manuel Martin, 63, formerly of Modesto, California, was arrested in Houston, Texas, on a nine-count superseding indictment charging him with wire fraud in connection with a Guatemalan real estate investment scheme and theft of Social Security benefits.
Atiqullah Nabizada, 29, Coto de Caza, California, Kenneth Moore, 49, Tustin, California, and Ahmed Tariq Asghari, 32, Sherman Oaks, California, have been arrested and charged with allegedly defrauding homeowners, financial institutions, and real estate investors in schemes that targeted the distressed homeowner market and allegedly caused more than $10 million in losses.
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Hamlet Sardariani, 42, Sylmar, California, has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges, admitting that he plotted with others to fraudulently obtain four loans for more than $5 million by pledging houses that they did not own as collateral, falsely claiming that the houses had enough equity to secure the loans, forging documents, and falsifying notary stamps.
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Andrew Michael Phalen, 25, Mission Viejo, California, was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of formal probation for defrauding hundreds of victims in a real estate scam by offering home loan modification assistance to struggling homeowners across the country.
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Andrew Michael Phalen, 25, Mission Viejo, California, was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of formal probation for defrauding hundreds of victims in a real estate scam by offering home loan modification assistance to struggling homeowners across the country.
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Aldo Joseph Baccala, 71, Petaluma, California, was arrested for stealing more than $20 million from dozens of real estate investors in a Ponzi scheme through his company Baccala Realty, Inc.
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Justin Batemon, 34, Hayward, Calif., was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution for his role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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Vafa Allan Khoshbin, 52, Los Angeles, California, state bar number 165486, an attorney accused of misappropriating $1.1 million from 10 clients, has agreed to be disbarred. The case was one of the largest misappropriation cases ever handled by the California Office of Chief Trial Counsel.