Lender Processing Services Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, a publicly traded mortgage servicing company, has agreed to pay $35 million in criminal penalties and forfeiture to address its participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million fraudulently signed and notarized mortgage-related documents with property recorders’ offices throughout the United States.
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Audrey Yeboah, an accountant and participant in a nationwide loan origination and kickback scheme, pled guilty to a felony information charging her with wire fraud.
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Kevin D. Barcomb, 39, Kirtland, Ohio, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with his role in a mortgage fraud scheme with losses to lenders of more than $2.2 million.
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Reginald Dodson Sr., 42, Tracy, California, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme.
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Douglas Wayne Bartle, III, also known as Ridgely Douglas Bartle and Douglas Wayne Bartle, Jr., 49, Winter Park, Florida, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp to 20 months in federal prison for wire fraud in connection with the fraudulent operation of a title insurance company.
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Eric S. Scherz, 44, Stuart, Florida, formerly of Barkhamsted, Connecticut, was sentenced by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for mortgage fraud offenses.
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Walter Bruce Harrell, 71, Montara, California, is charged with executing a scheme to defraud creditors who were attempting to lawfully foreclose on numerous properties by delaying and obstructing foreclosure sales through the improper use of the federal bankruptcy process.
Jamaul Roberts, 25, College Park, Maryland, Patricia Mantilla, 35, Lorton, Virginia, Melissa McWilliams, 35, Chantilly, Virginia, and Michael Brown, 41, Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiring to fraudulently taking over the titles of homes in Washington, D.C., without the real property owners’ knowledge, selling those homes, and keeping the profit.
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James A. Regas, 82, Oak Brook, Illinois, the former chairman of a west suburban bank was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for making false statements in regulatory documents regarding his undisclosed personal interest in loans that resulted in the bank losing more than $680,000.
Fred Davis Clark, Jr., president and CEO, David W. Schwarz, chief accounting officer, Cristal R. Coleman, manager and sales agent, Barry J. Graham, sales director, and Ricky Lynn Stokes, sales director, former Cay Clubs executives, have been charged with an investment fraud scheme.
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