Lisa Gerideau-Williams, 46, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, an attorney, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud, filing false income tax returns, and failing to file income tax returns.
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Xochitl Cervantes, 35, Las Vegas, Nevada, has been criminally charged for her involvement in a mortgage lending fraud case involving several victims operating under the name of CSR Services.
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Scott M. Wickersham, a loan officer and real estate agent, has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme. The defendant pleaded guilty on January 11, 2013.
Four people for the fraudulent conveyance of over twenty properties in the City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Zachary Stokes, Oscar Ketter, Elhadi Ibrahim and Steven Johnson.
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William A. Hirst, Pleasanton, California, an attorney, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to the Internal Revenue Service for re-drafting three missing deeds and signing his client’s name.
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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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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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Andrew Bartok, 66, Clifton, New Jersey, a former owner of the foreclosure remediation business Revelations Consulting, which was located in New Jersey and Connecticut, was convicted of defraud distressed homeowners, witness tampering and obstructing federal court proceedings.
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Stephen Kenneth Chrysler, Orange County, California, an attorney, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison for his role in an $8 million mortgage fraud scheme involving 16 homes. His mother, Aida Agusti Castro, Carlsbad, California, a real estate broker, was also sentenced for her role in the scheme, received a 33-month prison sentence.
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