All defendants in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis. A total of 10 defendants were convicted in the scheme whereby a former Dallas Cowboys linebacker used his name and fame, according to evidence in the case, to get business and further the mortgage fraud scheme.
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Tu Ngoc Tran, 38, Portland, Oregon, was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to manufacture or distribute marijuana, two counts of manufacture of marijuana, making a false statement on a loan application and wire fraud.
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Eugene Lockhart Jr. was sentenced by federal district court judge Jorge A Solis to 54 months in federal prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving straw buyers and fraudulent mortgages.
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Billy Cannon, Sr., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a loan officer, and Margaret Keefe, a closing agent, allegedly devised and participated in a scheme to defraud banks and real estate lending institutions by submitting materially false and fraudulent loan applications.
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Lilia Casal-Diaz, a real estate attorney, Andres Mendez, and his son, Andy Mendez, who both worked as real estate brokers, Josephine Santana, a mortgage broker, Jose Rafael Martinez and Basilio Gomez have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for their participation a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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Barrington Coombs, 58, Weston, Florida, was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison for his role in a foreclosure rescue scheme that victimized desperate homeowners on the brink of losing their homes.
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Alonzo Jackson Brown III, 45, Fairfield, California, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for two different schemes to defraud that collectively resulted in losses of more than $2 million.
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Jonas Rogers, 54, Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud and identity theft scheme.
Simon Saeid Koli was sentenced in federal court to serve 30 months in custody, followed by three years’ supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving four expensive homes.
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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