Archives For California

David C.H. Lin, 44, Sunnyvale, California, an attorney, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and multiple counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with his role in a private money lender scheme.

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James Delbert McConville, 61, Fremont, California, was sentenced to 93 months in prison, and ordered to pay more than $7 million in restitution for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud related to approximately 80 fraudulent loan applications secured by real property in Escondido and San Marcos, California.

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Scott Dority, 54, San Marino, California, has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for defrauding banks and other lenders by using straw borrowers and bogus documents to obtain millions of dollars in loans for houses and high-end vehicles that included Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

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Patricia Ann King, 57, Bakersfield, California, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to three years and one month in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme and for aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax documents in connection with her tax preparation business.

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Six people””including women from Orange County and Tennessee””have been charged by Federal Prosecutors in relation to a multi-million-dollar real estate flipping scheme in which investors were promised titles to homes that could be easily resold but in fact did not have “clean” titles, were uninhabitable, or were simply worthless.

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Sushama Devi Lohia, 74, Newport Beach, California, a mother convicted of conspiring with her two daughters and son-in-law to commit over $16 million in real estate fraud by forging documents and purchasing homes using straw buyers, was sentenced to eight years in state prison.

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Leo Wheeler, 56, Roseville, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to four years and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for defrauding investors in a real estate project.

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Anthony G. Symmes, 61, Paradise, California, was sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a builder bailout scheme using straw buyers. Symmes was also ordered to forfeit $4 million dollars.

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David A. Nilsen, 61, Seaside, California, was sentenced to 97 months in prison, and ordered to pay $69,828,833 in restitution following his conviction for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with his operation of Cedar Funding, a Monterey-based hard-money lender,

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Niche Savon Fortune, 39, Chico, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia to four years and nine months in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme centered in Chico, California, in 2007.

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