Archives For Georgia

Robert E. Maloney, Jr., 47, McDonough, Georgia, was arraigned on federal charges before United States Magistrate Judge Janet F. King. A superseding indictment charges Maloney and two former top officers of “FirstCity Bank,” Stockbridge, Georgia: Mark A. Conner, 45,

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Annita Hawes, a/a “KME,” Los Angeles, California, plead guilty to an Indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and identity theft.

Hawes admitted her involvement in a multi-jurisdictional mortgage fraud scheme with ties to Continue Reading...

Jeffrey L. Levine, 70, Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge J. Owen Forrester to serve 5 years in federal prison on charges of causing materially false entries that overvalued bank assets to be made in the books, reports, and statements of Omni National Bank.

Levine was sentenced to 5 years

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Delroy Oliver Davy, 38, Lithonia, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge J. Owen Forrester to serve 14 years in federal prison on charges of bank fraud and conspiring to commit bank, mail and wire fraud. Davy‘s sentence is to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay  $5,504,431 in restitution. Continue Reading...

Edward William Farley, 47, Hoschton, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 25 years in federal prison on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy involving mortgage fraud, a real estate investment “Ponzi” scheme with over a hundred victims, a check-kiting scheme and bankruptcy fraud. Walter Julius Hermann, 41,  Dunwoody, Georgia, was also sentenced to serve over 2 years in federal

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Kawana Latrell Melvin entered a first offender plea on October 19, 2009, in the Superior Court of Clayton County to felony charges that she unlawfully transacted mortgage business without a license, registration or under an applicable exemption; and made a false statement with respect to her eligibility to work in the Georgia residential mortgage industry.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (“Department”) referred this

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Arthur James Marshall, Jr. has been charged in a twenty-two-count indictment with fraud and money laundering in his real estate ventures. It was reported in news coverage of the April 3, 2009 execution of a search warrant by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Marshall’s former office building that Marshall was a local

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Walter Edward Stuckey, Jr, 52, Martinez, Georgia, pled guilty to one count of mail fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341, in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme.

According to the guilty plea hearing in U.S. District Court before U.S. District Judge J. Randal Hall, the evidence showed that between 2002 and continuing until 2006, Continue Reading...

Andrew John Smith, 29, Cleveland, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge William C. O’Kelley to serve over 3 years in prison on a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bank, wire and mail fraud arising from a mortgage fraud scheme.

Smith was sentenced to 3 years, 6 months in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. The court has ordered

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