David A. Nilsen, 61, Seaside, California, was sentenced to 97 months in prison, and ordered to pay $69,828,833 in restitution following his conviction for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with his operation of Cedar Funding, a Monterey-based hard-money lender,
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Randy Alan Carpenter, 54, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury for operating a scheme to defraud federally insured banks and individual investors out of over $82 million in residential mortgage loan proceeds.
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Terry Scott Hyder, 51, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to serve seven years in a federal prison for defrauding eldery investors by advising them to invest in “real estate trusts.”
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George Gary O’Neal, 71, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with three separate fraud schemes one of which involved soliciting investors to purchase real property under the guise of rehabbing the properties and flipping them.
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Dan Oaheyoh Two Feathers, 56, Hamilton, Montana, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit investment fraud, investment fraud, receipt of stolen property in interstate commerce, and money laundering. Sentencing has been set for June 15, 2012. He is currently released on special conditions.
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California homeowners are warned to beware of phone solicitations from scam artists claiming to provide assistance related to the recent national mortgage settlement.
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Corvus Law Group, LLC, Post Falls, Idaho, a law firm that files multi-plaintiff lawsuits against mortgage servicers, has agreed to change how it solicits clients in Idaho.
Richard Pettibone, 44, formerly of Alexandria, Virginia, pleaded guilty to operating a $1.5 million real estate investment Ponzi scheme and was sentenced to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
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Barry Winnett, 49, Roseville, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to three years and two months in prison and full restitution for wire fraud for his participation in a scheme that defrauded real estate investors of $2.9 million.
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Gaston E. Cantens, 73, of Miami, was charged in a criminal Information with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for making false promises to investors that their investments would be guaranteed by properties or mortgages that acted as collateral.
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