Augustus C. Okoye, 49, Milton, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court for engaging in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the theft of another person’s identity.
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Celia Thomas, 49, Dorchester, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court for mortgage fraud and theft of public funds.
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Paulo Montenegro, 45, and his wife, Rosana Pereira, 48, Weston, Massachusetts, have been sentenced in connection with fraudulently obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in Section 8 public housing subsidies and defrauding mortgage lenders.
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Mortgage and foreclosure related complaints have quadrupled over the past two years to become the number one reason consumers contacted the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office for assistance in 2011.
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Joshua Brown, 31, New Hampshire, has been sentenced to four years in jail for leading a mortgage scheme that defrauded more than a dozen financial lending institutions and several homebuyers of more than $2 million in connection with the purchase of 26 multi-family properties in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
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Charles Sammon, 35, West Pittston, Pennsylvania, formerly a practicing attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, was charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering, all in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which took place in 2006 and 2007.
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Robert H. Odimegwu, 43, formerly of Dedham, Massachusetts, a developer, was charged in a superseding indictment in connection with a multi-year, multi-property mortgage fraud scheme in Massachusetts.
Odimegwu has been charged by a federal grand jury with 13 counts of wire fraud and four counts of money
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Andre Junior Lamerique, 28, Sharon, Massachusetts, was sentenced to five years for conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering, for the role he played in a mortgage fraud ring that involved 21 fraudulent property transactions in the Greater Boston area, which defrauded 10 mortgage lenders of more than $10.6 million in loan proceeds. Lamerique was sentenced by U.S. District Judge
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Prince Charles Eweka, 45, Canton, Massachusetts, was arrested after being charged with multiple counts of wire fraud in connection with a multi-year, multi-property mortgage fraud scheme was unsealed in U.S. District Court. The indictment alleges eight counts of wire fraud.
According to the indictment, in 2006 and 2007, Eweka committed fraud in connection with
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Donna Larson, 52, Marshfield, Massachusetts has been indicted in connection with allegedly trying to delay or avoid foreclosure of a home mortgage by falsely reporting the death of a child to her mortgage company, and thereafter knowingly falsifying information in an affidavit filed in Brockton, Massachusetts Superior Court.
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