Archives For Idaho

Randy Gard Teall, 67, Post Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty to bank fraud. Teall was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on June 17, 2014.

According to the plea agreement, Teall admitted he was a loan officer at Global Credit Union, a federally insured financial institution in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. With the intent to defraud, Teall executed a scheme to procure loans from Global Credit Union using false promises or statements on loans he approved to individuals with whom he had a business relationship. Teall failed to disclose his personal and business relationship and the borrowers’ true financial worth. Some of Global’s loan funds were used to pay rent to Teall.

The charge of bank fraud is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000, and up to five years of supervised release.

Sentencing is set for December 15, 2015, before Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.

The indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson.The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Lending Hands of Idaho, Inc., a bogus online lender, appears to have pirated website information from a legitimate Michigan-based company named Lending Hands of Michigan, Inc. raising a warning flag to consumers who may be searching for loans online.

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 Twin Falls Title and Escrow (TFTE) is the subject of a cease and desist order for fraudulently using the identity of a legitimate Idaho entity to promote unlawful escrow activity by altering a copy of the Certificate of Assumed Business Name filed by First American Title Company, Inc.

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Douglas L. Swenson, 65, Eagle, Idaho, Mark Ellison, 65, Boise, Idaho, David D. Swenson, 36, Boise, and Jeremy S. Swenson, 41, Meridian, Idaho—each DBSI principals, were convicted by a federal jury on multiple fraud charges stemming from their public representation that DBSI was a profitable company when they knew that DBSI’s real estate business activities were universally unprofitable.

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Sarah Kate Henecke, 35, also known as Alessandra Valencia Toscanelli, Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty to making a false statement on a residential loan application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Sarah Kate Henecke, 35, also known as Alessandra Valencia Toscanelli, Las Vegas, Nevada, has been indicted for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme.

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Darin John Henecke, 37, Pocatello, Idaho, and Karen DeWall Shaw, 59, Chubbuck, Idaho, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to making false statements to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a misdemeanor.

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Aaron Michael Hymas and Tiffany Kim Hymas, both 38, North Salt Lake, Utah, were sentenced in United States District Court in Boise, Idaho, for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme.

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Starting September 1, 2013, the Idaho Department of Finance will begin using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) to manage consumer finance company, payday lender and collection agency licenses on a voluntary basis. Mortgage licensees have been on NMLS since 2008 and money transmitters since 2012. The department now has 3,027 licensees using NMLS.

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Lender Processing Services, Inc., and its subsidiaries, LPS Default Solutions and DocX, reached a civil settlement concerning allegations of robo-signing, of which Idaho will receive $890,995.

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