Eric Rulack Farrington, 58, Irving, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 132 months in federal prison for largely orchestrating a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme in the Dallas, Texas area. Judge Lindsay also ordered that Farrington pay approximately $2.5 million in restitution and forfeit approximately $1.2 million to the U.S.
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Ronald Johannes Sneijder, 48, Herndon, Virginia, a former owner of a title and escrow company based in the District of Columbia, pled guilty to the lead count in a recently filed indictment, bank fraud. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, the indictment against Continue Reading...
Jeffrey L. Levine, 70, Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Judge J. Owen Forrester to serve 5 years in federal prison on charges of causing materially false entries that overvalued bank assets to be made in the books, reports, and statements of Omni National Bank.
Levine was sentenced to 5 years
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A loan officer and five straw buyers/investors were charged in federal court via a criminal information for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme involving 26 properties throughout the Cleveland, Ohio, area and more than $7.5 million in mortgage loans:
Jeffrey S. Brown, Jr., 30, Cleveland, Ohio, a loan officer;
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Jo’Mell Thomas, 29, Wallingford, Connecticut, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty March 7, 2011, before Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from his participation in a mortgage fraud conspiracy.
According to court documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from an investigation into an extensive mortgage fraud
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James Dan, 46, Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to a year and a day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which promised to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes, but left them homeless and with no equity. Judge Motz also ordered that Continue Reading...
Joseph Sindaco, 63, an attorney from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been sentenced on a mail fraud charge in connection with his embezzlement of funds from clients’ trust account. U.S. District Judge James Cohn sentenced Sindaco to 48 months in prison and ordered him to pay more than $3,879,896 in restitution to the victims. Continue Reading...
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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Anson Joachin, 39, Parkland, Florida, was sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. In addition, U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro ordered Joachin to pay $2,352,310 in restitution.
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