27 South Florida residents have been indicted on charges stemming from their participation in a series of mortgage fraud schemes that resulted in more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
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Michael R. Rouse, 56, formerly of Wellington, Florida, was sentenced, in absentia, by U.S. District Judge Barbara M G. Lynn to 210 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution to the 62 identified victims of his crime.
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Sharmon Wade, 37, Jamaica, New York, was sentenced to nine to 18 years in prison for defrauding investors in a scam that involved fictitious real estate property investments. Judge Michael Obus granted the District Attorney’s request that Wade be considered a predicate felon for previous convictions, and ordered Wade to pay $1,242,623.13 in restitution to these victims. Wade pled guilty on May 17, 2010, to grand larceny, securities fraud, scheme to defraud, and a violation of tax law.
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Joseph Shereshevsky, 54, Brooklyn, New York and Norfolk, Virginia, a former Chief Operating Officer of the private equity firm WexTrust Capital, LLC (“WexTrust Capital“), was sentenced to 262 months in prison on charges stemming from a fraud that raised more than $9 million from
investors in private placement real estate offerings. Shereshevsky was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Denny Chin.
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John George Coulter Jr., 79, Colorado Springs, Colorado, formerly of Placer County, California, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with 12 counts of mail fraud and four counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property.
The indictment alleges that Coulter was the operational manager for a group of investors who owned property in
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Thomas Franciose, San Francisco, California; William Freeborn, Alamo, California; Robert Kramer, Oakland, California; Thomas Legault, Clayton, California; David Margen, Berkeley, California; Continue Reading...
Ronald Lee Wheeler, 69, Murray, Iowa, was sentenced to time served and immediately placed on five years of supervised release for providing false statements to a financial institution in 2006. United States District Court Senior Judge Ronald Longstaff also ordered Wheeler to pay restitution in the amount of $821,134, a $100.00 assessment for the Crime Victim Fund and serve 200
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Louis C. Nardone III, doing business as Precision Marketing Group, has been sued for violations of the registration and fraud provisions of the Idaho Uniform Securities Act concerning a real estate investment scam. Nardone operated from Lake Mohegan, New York.
The Complaint alleges that the Defendant obtained
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Isaac Jerome Smith, 48, Spotsylvania, Virginia; and Alvita Karen Gunn, 33, Hanover, Maryland, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus to 70 months and 60 months in prison, each followed by three years of supervised release, respectively, for a fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with their
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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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