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A Cherry Hill man who held himself out as a mortgage loan specialist has been charged with theft and other charges that he allegedly used $146,000 for personal expenses that had been paid to him by four Burlington County residents seeking loan assistance, authorities said on Wednesday.
Mark L. Begley, 50, was charged with second degree theft by deception, two counts of third degree theft by deception, second degree misapplication of entrusted property, two counts of third degree misapplication of entrusted property, third degree filing a fraudulent or false income tax return, two counts of third degree failure to pay/remit taxes and third degree failure to file a return.
Scammers are targeting low-income families who are seeking affordable housing.
The scammers are targeting some people who are using Section 8 housing, and they are using fake websites to do it.
A 30-year-old Costa Mesa woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges stemming from a foreclosure rescue fraud scheme that targeted homeowners with bogus promises of mortgage relief.
Najia Jalan entered her plea in Los Angeles federal court to charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.
A sniveling swindler pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in an $11 million mortgage fraud scheme in Brooklyn and going on the lam for four years before he was captured in Canada.
John Star, a Nigerian-born and Yiddish-speaking real estate broker, blubbered throughout the proceeding and at one point his lawyer requested a recess so he could compose himself.
When Alexander Solomon was assigned to prosecute Edul Ahmad, a Brooklyn real estate agent indicted in a $50 million mortgage fraud scheme in August 2011, he likely had little idea of the shockwaves that would result.
Aside from forging the credentials of would-be homebuyers, Ahmad had doled out $188,500 to State Senator John Sampson which, according to prosecutors, Sampson used to cover up years of embezzlement in exchange for granting political favors to Ahmad.
A Sonoma County man accused of bilking dozens of distressed homeowners out of tens of thousands of dollars faces 19 new criminal counts.
Miguel Angel Lopez now faces a total of 64 criminal counts, not including dozens of enhancement charges, which would add to his prison sentence if convicted. Many of his victims Monday saw the suspect for the first time since his arrest five weeks ago and emotions ran high.
A former California real estate developer who bilked millions of dollars from investors had every intention of finishing development projects that went belly-up during the 2007 housing collapse, his attorney argued in court on Monday.
But three of the investors said the developer, Kelly Gearhart, knew they would never see their money again and has ruined their lives.
A Boulder man convicted of stealing more than $30,000 from an elderly woman in a real estate scam is now scheduled to be sentenced in August after his hearing was delayed today.
Gilbert Million was convicted by a jury in May of five felonies, including criminal exploitation of an at-risk elder, theft of $20,000 to $100,000, attempted theft of $500 or more from an at-risk elder, offering a false instrument for recording in the first-degree, and criminal impersonation.
A Florida man has been charged in Pittsburgh with conspiring with Joseph Nocito, president of Castle Mortgage, in a multi-million dollar bank fraud scheme involving a house in Florida.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Mark Sosso, 43, the owner of Sosso Homes in Sarasota, with one count of conspiracy. The charge is contained in what prosecutors call an “information,” rather than a grand jury indictment, which is typically an indication of cooperation with the government.
The same jury that believed an escrow company helped North County developer Kelly Gearhart defraud ex-fighting champ Chuck Liddell did not believe that it had helped defraud five other plaintiffs in the same trial, according to verdicts announced this week.