Mariano Vincente Cano, Tuscon, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 14 months in prison and ordered to pay over $350,000 in restitution for his role in a straw buyer mortgage fraud scheme.
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Anthony E. Aguilar, and Brenda K. Wyatt, both of Norman, Oklahoma, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution.
Teresa Giudice, 41, and Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, 43, both of Towaco, New Jersey, two of the stars of the Bravo TV television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” admitted committing a string of crimes as part of a long-running financial fraud conspiracy.
Craig Hudson, William Bolton and David Barile were all sentenced to prison for their roles in a mortgage fraud scam that involved more than 50 fraudulent mortgages totaling $8.8 million.
Herschell Harvell, Jr., 53, Conyers, Georgia, made his initial appearance in federal court on charges of making false statements to a bank to obtain a mortgage loan and conspiring to obstruct an investigation into his real estate transactions by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General (HUD-OIG).
William Barksdale, 47, Burlington, New Jersey, a real estate consultant, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for helping five people defraud banks by obtaining multiple home equity loans on the same property.
Roger K. Howard, 51, Englewood, Colorado, was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 108 months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering.
Mokorya Cosmas Wambura, 45, Takoma Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from two separate residential mortgage fraud schemes.
Matthew Scott Smith, 36, Brighton, Colorado, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on February 12, 2014, for making false statements in a loan application.
Andrew Lucas, 36, the former mayor of Manalapan, New Jersey, was arrested on charges that he submitted falsified 2007 and 2008 tax returns in order to purchase a farm property in Manalapan and that he provided federal investigators and a federal grand jury with a fabricated document in 2013.