Michael Anthony Baker, 31, Houston, Texas, the ringleader of a mortgage fraud scheme, was sentenced to 180 months in prison for his involvement in defrauding and obtaining money from lending institutions by using straw buyers to purchase homes and submitting false/fraudulent documents to lenders.
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Frederic Alan Gladle, 53, Austin, Texas, pleaded guilty to his role in operating a foreclosure rescue scam in Southern California and elsewhere that charged distressed homeowners fees in exchange for fraudulently postponing foreclosure sales.
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Frederic Alan Gladle, Austin, Texas, was charged with having operated a foreclosure-rescue scam in Los Angeles, California, and elsewhere, that falsely promised the owners of more than a thousand distressed properties that they could indefinitely postpone foreclosure sales.
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William Doug Mitchell, 50, Fort Worth, Texas, was convicted by a jury after one hour of deliberation for his role in a complex mortgage fraud scheme that targeted homes across North Texas.
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Michael R. Rouse, 56, formerly of Wellington, Florida, was sentenced, in absentia, by U.S. District Judge Barbara M G. Lynn to 210 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution to the 62 identified victims of his crime.
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Jason Heath Morrison, 35, Midland, Texas, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his role in a real estate fraud scheme, as well as for his failure to register as a sex offender.
Morrison‘s co-defendant, Marcus Jacob Rosenberger, 35, Odessa, Texas, was sentenced
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Yunus Mandli a/k/a Jonah Mandli, 63, Rockwall, Texas, a Dallas/Fort Worth homebuilder, pleaded guilty to a mortgage fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas. The defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud on June 21, 2011 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Don D. Bush.
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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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Darrell Lynn Marriott, 57, Gun Barrel City, Texas, the fourth member of a multi-county mortgage fraud scheme pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony for his role in a multimillion dollar enterprise that defrauded government-backed mortgages. Marriott was sentenced in Navarro County District Court to 28 years in prison for securing the execution of a document by deception.
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Operation Stolen Dreams, which targeted mortgage fraudsters in the Eastern District of Texas and throughout the country is the largest collective enforcement effort ever brought to bear in confronting mortgage fraud.
George M. Baehr, Jr., 35, Dallas, Texas pleaded guilty to an Information on June 16, 2010, charging him with mail fraud. Baehr entered his plea before U.S.
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