Archives For November 30, 1999

Steve Zaven Kessedjian, 48, Los Angeles, California, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with mail fraud for a mortgage fraud scheme. Kessedjian was arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents and appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in Los Angeles, California.

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Angeline Lisa Lizarrago, 69, Fremont, California, was sentenced to five years for a foreclosure scam in which dozens of struggling Bay Area and Central Valley homeowners paid for foreclosure services that were never delivered.

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Michael Frank Burgess,69, Alpharetta, Georgia, was sentenced byChief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a real estate fraud scheme.

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Thirteen additional defendants were charged in two separate indictments in the Vera Kuzmenko mortgage fraud investigation in California.  The current indictments bring the total charged in this investigation to twenty-three.  The two most recent indictments involve some of the straw buyers that participated in the scheme.

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Kerry Jon Quam, 46, Eagan, Minnesota, was sentenced on September 7, 2011, to three years of probation on one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud for his role in submitted false loan applications and fraudulent appraisals to lenders.

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S. Pope Cleghorn, Jr., 39, Villa Rica, Georgia, was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison on charges of bank fraud in connection with two loans, one for a real estate development project and another for a personal residence. 

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Donna Sherman, 34, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, president and owner of her title company, has been found by a jury of a pattern of corrupt activity for fraudulently closing home loans. Her title company, Sherman Title Agency, Inc. was convicted of the same crimes.

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Joshua Brown, 31, New Hampshire, has been sentenced to four years in jail for leading a mortgage scheme that defrauded more than a dozen financial lending institutions and several homebuyers of more than $2 million in connection with the purchase of 26 multi-family properties in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

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Andrew Hamilton Williams, Jr., 60, Hollywood, Florida, was convicted by a federal jury of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with his participation in a massive fraud scheme which promised to pay off homeowners’ mortgages, but left them to fend for themselves.

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David Kinney, 52, New Haven, Connecticut, a licensed attorney, pleaded guilty before Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of conspiracy and one count of making a false statement for his role in a mortgage fraud conspiracy.

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