Chester D. Howard, also known as C. Daniel Howard, 41, Verona, Wisconsin, is charged in a seven-count indictment with making false statements. He is charged with five counts of falsely stating to banks that he was the owner of property as collateral for a loan, when he knew he was not the owner of the property.
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Michael E. Earwood, 61, Madison, Mississippi, an attorney, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bankruptcy fraud.
Seth Bradshaw, 35, Pigott, Arkansas, and formerly of Sunflower County, appeared before Judge Bettye Sanders to be sentenced after pleading guilty to three counts of false pretense.
Shela Amos, Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced to 34 years for defrauding victims by using the vacant home sale scheme whereby the defendant sold homes she did not own.
Dwayne Stewart, 41, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been charged with stealing five properties in the City and County of Philadelphia, theft from at least 12 additional victims in fraudulent real estate scams and passing bad checks to victims including the City of Philadelphia Recorder of Deeds Office.
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William R. “Rusty” Beamon, Jr., 52, DeKalb County, Georgia, a former bank employee, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on February 26, 2013, on charges arising out of a scheme to defraud his former employer Appalachian Community Bank (also known as Gilmer County Bank).
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Jamaul Roberts, 25, College Park, Maryland, Patricia Mantilla, 35, Lorton, Virginia, Melissa McWilliams, 35, Chantilly, Virginia, and Michael Brown, 41, Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiring to fraudulently taking over the titles of homes in Washington, D.C., without the real property owners’ knowledge, selling those homes, and keeping the profit.
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Four people for the fraudulent conveyance of over twenty properties in the City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Zachary Stokes, Oscar Ketter, Elhadi Ibrahim and Steven Johnson.
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David Alan Boucher, 56, San Bernardino, California, has been arrested and charged for defrauding banks and financial businesses by illegally filing fraudulent Grant Deeds on properties throughout San Bernardino County.
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Gaetano Antonelli was charged in July 2012, with three cases of organized fraud (less than $20,000). Antonelli’s scheme involved contacting individuals who were behind on their mortgage payments and deceiving them into signing the deed to their property over to him via Power of Attorney (so he could rescue them from their mortgage).
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