Laura Cecilia Carlson, 66, Hacienda Heights, California, was sentenced to 11 years 8 months, in prison after being found guilty at a jury trial. Carlson was convicted of 14 separate felonies including foreclosure consultant fraud, filing a false document, grand theft and money laundering.
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The five most common consumer mortgage fraud complaints addressed by the Nevada Mortgage Fraud Unit, which investigates and prosecutes violations of mortgage fraud, as well as foreclosure rescue fraud, foreclosure fraud, and any and all other theft related crimes arising out of mortgage related transactions, have been announced for 2012.
Julietta Quinones, 44, Port Hueneme, California, is the subject of a felony complaint charged with seven counts of grand theft, along with an aggravated white-collar crime enhancement alleging the thefts involved the taking of more than $100,000.
Kenneth J. Enrico, 46, Bohemia, New York, a broker, has been indicted for conspiring to defraud 350 financially strapped customers of more than $1.2 million.
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Jean Marc Eljwaidi, 44, Las Vegas, Nevada, who fraudulently enticed persons to give him almost $2 million for the development of a local commercial real estate project that never materialized, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution.
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Robert Rivernider, 47, Wellington, Florida, Loretta Seneca, 50, Boynton Beach, Florida, and Robert Ponte, 59, Stonington, Connecticut, who had been on trial in Hartford, Connecticut, federal court, have pleaded guilty to various offenses stemming from two separate investment schemes.
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Karen Galo, 33, Key West, Florida, has been indicted and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of disclosing the contents of a federal grand jury subpoena to a third party, with the intent to obstruct a judicial proceeding.
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Lance Kellow, 36, Henderson, Nevada, following a nine-day jury trial, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud for committing mortgage fraud crimes that caused losses to federally insured financial institutions of over $1 million.
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Tobechi Enyinna Onwuhara, 33, formerly of Dallas, Texas, has been arrested in Australia after more than four years as a fugitive and brought to the United States to face charges accusing him of leading a home equity line of credit fraud scheme that attempted to steal more than $38 million and caused approximately $13 million in losses.
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Patience Lavon Jackson, 50, Arlington, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 63 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,801,661.95 in restitution, following her conviction for leading a conspiracy to defraud residential mortgage lenders.
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