Winnie Joanne Barefoot, a/k/a Winnie Jo Budzina, a/k/a Winnie JoAnne Conn, a/k/a Joanne Knopsnyder, a/k/a Olivia JoAnne Morgan, a/k/a Olivia JoAnne Barefoot Morgan, 59, Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced to five years in prison for bank fraud arising from her use of numerous identities to fraudulently obtain real estate and commercial loans.
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Davionne Anderson, 41, Newark, New Jersey was indicted for allegedly stealing approximately $1.2 million from two mortgage lenders by using a stolen identity and false information to obtain two home loans, which he used to sell his home in Newark and acquire a luxury home in Georgia.
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Frederic Alan Gladle, Austin, Texas, was charged with having operated a foreclosure-rescue scam in Los Angeles, California, and elsewhere, that falsely promised the owners of more than a thousand distressed properties that they could indefinitely postpone foreclosure sales.
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James Robert Sweet, 44, Westbury, New York, the kingpin of the largest mortgage fraud and identity theft ring in Nassau County, New York, history has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for his role in leading an organization that stole more than $20 million from homeowners, banks, and the County government.
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Matthew Paul Kay, 36, a British citizen who formerly lived in West Los Angeles and the Park La Brea district of Los Angeles, California, a former real estate agent and mortgage broker charged with running a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme was ordered held without bond after arriving in the United States to face federal fraud, identity theft and tax charges.
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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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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has successfully built upon the efforts of Operation Stolen Dreams, a nationwide initiative against mortgage fraud, with prosecutions of defendants accused of crimes that resulted in losses of more than $10 million. Those convicted include:
Ronald Johannes Sneijder, Herndon, Virginia, 48, a former owner of a title and escrow company based in the District of Columbia.
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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.
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Imelda Sanchez, 39, Nipomo, California, was arrested and arraigned on charges of orchestrating a tax scheme involving stolen identities, as well as a loan fraud scheme in which she allegedly submitted false income tax returns that overstated her income in an effort to obtain a $1.6 million loan. Sanchez was arrested at her place of business by special agents with IRS –
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