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Morton Daniel Bohn, 69, Tigard, Oregon, was sentenced after admitting guilt on federal charges of bank fraud and money laundering. The defendant was ordered to serve one year and one day in federal prison and pay restitution of $288,171. Bohn was ordered to report to the Bureau of Prisons on June 15, 2010.

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Gary T. Johnson, 60, Groton, Connecticut, has been found guilty of four counts of wire fraud and two counts of engaging in illegal monetary transactions while operating his former mortgage lending business.

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Michael Anthony Prieskorn, 35, Ellendale, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $20 million for mortgage lenders. Prieskorn was charged with orchestrating the scheme, which involved the purchase of approximately 70 residential properties in Continue Reading...

Terral Toole, 42, Lake Elsinore, California, was sentenced to 85 months and ordered to pay $291,055 in restitution to three financial institutions for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme.

Toole pleaded guilty in November 2009 to four counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering for his

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Nefrititi Luv a/k/a Phlecia Pierce a/k/a Phlecia Rice (Luv), 49, an Arizona resident, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco, California, to mail fraud and failure to file a tax return.  

In pleading guilty, Luv, admitted that between November 2005 and January 2006, she submitted false loan applications and other documents in connection with the

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Michael Milan, 49, Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced to 108 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in carrying out a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Milan was also ordered to pay restitution of $3,141,409 and to forfeit $1,061,890 in proceeds he obtained.

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Mark J. Moncher, 53, Orlando, Florida, has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. The court also ordered Moncher to pay more than $1.9 million in restitution. Moncher had pleaded guilty on December 29, 2009.

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Brian Ragauckas, 36, Secaucus, New Jersey, a police officer, was arrested based on a Complaint charging him with bank fraud in connection with a $529,777 mortgage loan that he obtained through false representations to the former Countrywide Bank FSB.

According to the Complaint, Ragauckas and his wife own

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Gerald James Greenfield, 64, Bloomington, Minnesota, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud through the use of wires, four counts of mortgage fraud by means of interstate wire, one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, and one count of engaging in a monetary transaction with criminally derived property. Nicholas Ryan Delon

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John A. Bui, 46, of San Jose, California was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $3,500,000 in forfeiture as a result of his convictions for conspiring to commit wire fraud, destruction of records in a federal investigation, and witness tampering.

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