Camille M. Harris, 42, Cleveland, Ohio, Kenneth T. Embry, 56, Lyndhurst, Ohio, and Deon D. Levy, 43, Bedford, Ohio, were indicted for their roles in a $1.4 million mortgage fraud conspiracy involving property in North Carolina.
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Brian Armet, 36, Santa Margarita, California, Rigoberto Hernandez, 37, Santa Maria, California, and Julio Tamayo, 42, Santa Maria, who participated in a complex mortgage fraud scheme, were sentenced to federal prison terms and ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution to various lenders
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Mark W. Leetzow, 44, Sarasota, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Virginia Covington, to one year and one day in federal prison for his role in a mortgage fraud conspiracy that victimized numerous mortgage lenders and FDIC-insured banks.
Jill Reding, Tonya Ruf, and Katherine J. Frisk, three former employees of now defunct Pierce Commercial Bank, were sentenced to prison terms for their roles in the mortgage fraud scheme that substantially contributed to the demise of the bank.
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Lorraine Brown, 51, Alpharetta, Georgia, former president of mortgage document processor DocX, has been charged with racketeering for her alleged role in authorizing the fraudulent signing of mortgage documents filed in Michigan. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, Brown has already pled guilty to similar charges in Florida.
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Lorraine Brown, 56, Alpharetta, Georgia, a former executive of Lender Processing Services Inc., pleaded guilty admitting her participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million fraudulently signed and notarized mortgage-related documents with property recorders’ offices throughout the United States.
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Bruce Hawkins, 62, formerly of Algonquin, Illinois, the prior owner of a home building company that went bankrupt in 2008 leaving unfinished a commercial and residential property development in northwest suburban Algonquin, is facing federal bank fraud charges related to the collapse of the project.
Thomas Richard Jager, 64, Bettendorf, Iowa, has been charged with drafting and faxing false remittance reports to investors in mortgage pools and submitting false end of the year reports to mortgagors.
Walter R. Zimmerer, III, age 70, Colts Neck, New Jersey, formerly owner of Zimmerer Custom Homes in LeClaire, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose to one-month imprisonment and 12 months home confinement, having previously pleaded guilty to nine counts of bank fraud.
Peter Wilkinson, 43, Eugene, Oregon, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme in Central Oregon.
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