Jose “Joe” Bautista Garcia, 46, Camarillo, California, a real estate broker, Lucy Ann Garcia, Jose Garcia’s wife, 46, Camarillo, Jose Fernando Murguia, 47, Oxnard, a loan officer, Sesilia Garcia, one of Jose Garcia’s sisters, 30, Oxnard, California, a loan officer, Lili Ayala Hernandez, 41, Oxnard, a loan officer, Lidubina “Lido” Mendoza Perez, 41, Moreno Valley, California, a loan officer, Gregg Scott Quinn, 40, Camarillo, a loan officer, and Cesar Rodriguez Azamar, 36, Santa Paula, an employee at NCHL, have each been indicted for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme.
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Freddy Centeno, Brownsville, Texas, has been arrested following the return of two-count indictment alleging money laundering for a convicted drug trafficker and making false statements to federal agents.
Steven Pitchersky, 64, Rancho Mirage, California, was charged by information with one count of wire fraud. Pitchersky, who operated Nationwide Mortgage Concepts, a California mortgage lender, is accused of engaging in a scheme to defraud Ally Bank that caused the bank a loss of approximately $5.3 million.
Michael E. Earwood, 61, Madison, Mississippi, an attorney, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bankruptcy fraud.
Gloria Nereida Valle-Clas, 48, and Alexander Gonzalez, 40, Loxahatchee, Florida, have been indicted on charges that they used aliases to acquire real estate while continuing to receive government benefits.
David Burrus, Jr., 40, Burns, Tennessee, was sentenced to 66 months in prison, followed by a five-year term of supervised release, for conspiring to commit wire and mail fraud. Burrus was also ordered to pay restitution of $241,779.26.
Richard Scott Spady, 40, Bloomington, Minnesota, was sentenced for his role in defrauding financial institutions and homeowners under the guise of a program to rescue homes from foreclosure.
James Cockinos, 58, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., a former mortgage broker and bank officer, has been sentenced to one year and a day in prison for defrauding Washington Mutual Bank (later acquired by JPMorgan Chase) in New York, for the purpose of securing a $1.48 million residential loan.
Horacio Lomeli, a 12-year veteran Department of Public Safety Officer, and his wife, Carmen Lomeli, have been convicted by a jury on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, and theft related to Mrs. Lomeli’s embezzlement of over $175,000 from her employer Sierra Seed, LLP, based in Nogales, Arizona. Mrs. Lomeli also was convicted of mortgage fraud.
Andrew Michael Phalen, 26, Mission Viejo, California, Jacob John Cunningham, 26, and John D. Silva, 28, both from Irvine, California, Justin Dennis Koelle, 23, Costa Mesa, California, and Dominic Adam Nolan, 32, Irvine, were sentenced for defrauding hundreds of victims in a real estate scam that included fraudulently collecting upfront fees for loan modification services and sending fake letters with the CitiFinancial or CitiMortgage logos offering home loan modification assistance. Victim losses are estimated to be in excess of $130,000.