Archives For New Jersey

Frederick “Freddie” Grippo, 32, Old Bridge, N.J., admitted his part in a phony foreclosure rescue scheme that was part of a $4.4 million mortgage fraud.

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Crystal Paling, 52, Sussex, New Jersey, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for her role in a wire fraud and money laundering scheme involving phony mortgages issued for properties in New Jersey and Florida.

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Alexander Iler, 38, Middletown, New Jersey, was arrested on a charge of second-degree theft for fraudulently converting the ownership of a Middletown property to his own name.

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Maeble L. Hairston, 57, Red Bank, New Jersey, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal over $1 million from lenders by filing fraudulent mortgage applications, diverting mortgage proceeds and falsifying settlement statements.

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Mark J. Bellotti, 56, Marlboro, New Jersey, a lawyer, was sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $2.6 million from lenders by filing fraudulent mortgage loan applications.

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Paul DiGiacomo, 46, Madison, New Jersey, a lawyer, was sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a mortgage lender of $431,200 by filing a false loan application and purchasing a home in Newark, New Jersey in the name of a man who was deceased.

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Lester Soto, 56, Freehold, New Jersey; Klary Arcentales, 44, Lyndhurst, New Jersey; Antonio Pimenta, 44 Irvington, New Jersey; Adilson Silva, 46, Union, New Jersey; Linda Cohen, 54 Orange, New Jersey;Michael Rumore, 54, New Jersey; Issac DePaula, 33, and Rodrigo Costa, 32, both of Brazil, have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering in a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused losses of over $30 million

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Jong Shin, 52, Bronx, New York, was sentenced to 186 months for orchestrating a mortgage fraud scheme in Atlantic City, New Jersey, involving seven properties that were bought and sold 17 times in a little more than six months.

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William Brown, 60, Newark, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 66 months in prison for his role in a $40.8 million mortgage fraud conspiracy, recruiting straw buyers to purchase real estate properties in New Jersey, South Carolina, and Georgia, and causing lenders to release more than $18 million based on fraudulent mortgage loan applications.

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Nine of ten individuals from New Jersey were arrested by in connection with their alleged roles in a $40 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and straw buyers to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos at the Jersey Shore and resort destinations in South Carolina and Georgia, N.J.

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