Christopher M. Chiavola, 32, Chico, California, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme allegedly orchestrated by co-defendant, Garret Griffith Gililland III.
According to the plea
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Diane H. Frederick Atari, 43, Ashburn, Virginia, who fled the United States after being indicted in July 2009 for a mortgage fraud scheme, has been extradited from Turkey, completing a years-long effort by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and the Virginia Office of the Attorney General to bring her to justice. Atari is charged with fraudulently fixing her clients’ credit and
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James Dan, 46, Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to a year and a day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which promised to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes, but left them homeless and with no equity. Judge Motz also ordered that Continue Reading...
Joseph Sindaco, 63, an attorney from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been sentenced on a mail fraud charge in connection with his embezzlement of funds from clients’ trust account. U.S. District Judge James Cohn sentenced Sindaco to 48 months in prison and ordered him to pay more than $3,879,896 in restitution to the victims. Continue Reading...
Giuseppe Cracchiolo, 60, Romeo, Michigan, was sentenced for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme to six months’ imprisonment, followed by three years’ supervised release.
United States District Judge George Caram Steeh also ordered Cracchiolo to serve an additional six months’ home confinement and pay restitution of $1,654,500 to numerous financial institutions. In September
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Michael Douglas Conley, 28, Oakdale, Calfornia, who lied on documents allowing him to buy a home in Dry Fork, Virginia, pled guilty to making false statements or declarations to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Conley waived his right to be indicted and pled guilty to an Information charging him with one count of making false and fraudulent
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Berta Sanders, 61, Miami Lakes, Florida, a Certified Public Accountant, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Paul C. Huck to 52 months’ imprisonment, 5 years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $31 million.
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Brian Ragauckas, 37, Secaucus, N.J., A former Jersey City, N.J., police officer admitted today to making false and fraudulent statements in an application to obtain a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage for the purchase of a Jersey City property. Ragauckas pleaded guilty to an information charging him with making false and fraudulent statements within the
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Juan Rangel, 47, Downey, California, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for running two fraud schemes – a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $30 million from more than 500 victims, and a mortgage fraud scheme that preyed on working-class homeowners by stealing the equity from their homes and secretly taking title to their properties.
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Iftikhar Ahmad, 40, Stockton, California, to 21 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $382,750 for multiple counts of mail fraud relating to a scheme involving the fraudulent submission of mortgage loan applications. Ahmad pleaded guilty on April 28, 2008.
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