Eliyahu Ezagui, 48, has been indicted on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud for masterminding a scheme to defraud banks, mortgage lenders, and residents of the Crown Heights community in Brooklyn, New York of approximately $18 million in connection with the fraudulent mortgaging of condominium apartment units.

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Alexander Kaplan, Brooklyn, New York, was found guilty of participating in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme, after a two-week jury trial in Manhattan federal court, on all eighteen counts in the Indictment against him.

According to the evidence at trial, statements made in open court, and the Indictment:

From late 2004 through January 2007, Kaplan and his