William R. “Rusty” Beamon, Jr., 52, DeKalb County, Georgia, a former bank employee, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on February 26, 2013, on charges arising out of a scheme to defraud his former employer Appalachian Community Bank (also known as Gilmer County Bank).
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Kenneth J. Enrico, 46, Bohemia, New York, a broker, has been indicted for conspiring to defraud 350 financially strapped customers of more than $1.2 million.
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Regina M. Preetorius, 45, Goodyear, Arizona, has been charged by a federal grand jury in a 13 count indictment for defrauding investors and homeowners and laundering the proceeds of that fraud.
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Clayton A. Coe, 45, McDonough, Georgia, a former Senior Commercial Loan Officer for FirstCity Bank of Stockbridge, Georgia, which failed and was seized by the FDIC and state banking authorities in March 2009, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with an $800,000 loan that he tricked FirstCity Bank’s Board of Directors into approving and from which he personally profited.
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H. Gregory Cordell, 46, Cartersville, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. to federal prison for bank fraud related to a mortgage he obtained on property located in Cartersville.
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Michael Frank Burgess,69, Alpharetta, Georgia, was sentenced byChief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a real estate fraud scheme.
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S. Pope Cleghorn, Jr., 39, Villa Rica, Georgia, was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison on charges of bank fraud in connection with two loans, one for a real estate development project and another for a personal residence.
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Richard D. Guerard, 43, Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. at the U.S. Courthouse in Savannah, Georgia, to 52 months in prison in connection with a conspiracy to defraud over $2 million from the First National Bank, Savannah, Georgia, and other banks from 2007 to 2009.
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Ola Suzanne Stowers, 34, Dawsonville, Georgia, was sentenced to prison by United States District Judge Richard W. Story on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Stowers was sentenced to 3 years in prison, and ordered to pay $260,171.94 in restitution. Stowers pleaded guilty to the charges on April 4,
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Heyward Kelly McKnight, Jr., Augusta, Georgia, a minister, was sentenced in federal district court by United States District Judge J. Randal Hall to 15 months in prison for his role in causing a mortgage loan to be submitted based on misrepresentations to the lending bank.
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