Brian Ragauckas, 37, Secaucus, N.J., A former Jersey City, N.J., police officer admitted today to making false and fraudulent statements in an application to obtain a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage for the purchase of a Jersey City property. Ragauckas pleaded guilty to an information charging him with making false and fraudulent statements within the
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Juan Rangel, 47, Downey, California, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for running two fraud schemes – a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $30 million from more than 500 victims, and a mortgage fraud scheme that preyed on working-class homeowners by stealing the equity from their homes and secretly taking title to their properties.
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Alfred Eugene Parker, 32, Woodland Hills, California, a man who bilked more than 20 victims out of approximately $2 million in less than one year, has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison. Parker was sentenced by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who remanded the defendant into custody at the conclusion of the sentencing hearing. Continue Reading...
Rito Miguel Diaz, Jr, has been sentenced by Judge Philip S. Gutierrez to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for 24 months as charged in Count One of the Four-Count sealed Indictment. Diaz, Jr was also sentenced to supervised release for three years, a special assessment of $100, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,254,667. Continue Reading...
Monica Elizabeth Frommer, 33, Sherman Oaks, California, was charged by a federal grand jury for her role in a $2 million mortgage fraud scheme in which she allegedly filed fraudulent loan applications that in some cases falsely claimed she and her husband earned nearly $50,000 per month.
Frommer was indicted November 9, 2010, on charges of bank fraud, loan fraud, wire
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Delgardo Lee Linthicum, 54, Rustburg, Va., the former head of a non-profit organization and preacher, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on one count of bank fraud for failing to disclose all of his financial assets to a banking institution while trying to secure a loan.
Linthicum pled guilty in August to a one count Information charging him with bank fraud. In U.S.
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John Jackson, 42, Hamden, Connecticut, was sentenced by United States District Judge Christopher F. Droney in Hartford to six months of home confinement and two years of probation for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme. Judge Droney also ordered Jackson to pay restitution in the amount of $100,000.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in
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Laura S. Lassiter, 53, Pataskala, Ohio, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment for preparing fraudulent loan documents as part of a mortgage fraud scheme that she was involved with between November 2005 and May 2007. In addition, Lassiter was ordered to serves five years of supervised release following her term of imprisonment, as well as to pay $1,160,301.27 in restitution
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Kenneth Steward, 44, South Holland, Illinois, was arrested on federal charges alleging that he and six co-defendants participated in a $35 million mortgage fraud scheme involving more than 120 residential properties located primarily on the city’s south side. Steward who bought and sold homes and recruited others to act as residential purchasers, and his co-defendants allegedly
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Shamika M. Coleman, 33, Swansea, Illinois, was indicted for making a false statement on a loan or credit application, making a false statement during a renewal application for federal food stamp benefits, and making a false statement during a renewal for federal housing benefits.
The indictment alleges that Shamika M. Coleman under reported her income and bank deposits
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