David M. Connolly, Watchung, New Jersey, has been charged by The Securities and Exchange Commission with operating a Ponzi-like scheme involving a series of investment vehicles formed for the purported purpose of purchasing and managing rental apartment buildings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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David C.H. Lin, 44, Sunnyvale, California, an attorney, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and multiple counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with his role in a private money lender scheme.
In a case started from a review of SARs, a specialized mortgage fraud task force launched an investigation that led to charges against two individuals.
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James D. Levitt, 66, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a disbarred real estate attorney, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence to 12 months and one day in prison and fined $25,000 for his role in a $1.1 million mortgage fraud scheme.
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Carole Nelson, 53, Washington, D.C., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced to 29 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for money laundering in connection with her participation in a massive mortgage fraud scheme which promised to pay off homeowners’ mortgages on their “Dream Homes,” but left them to fend for themselves.
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Michael Anthony Prieskorn, 37, Ellendale, Minnesota, was sentenced on charges stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $18 million for mortgage lenders.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 52, Weston, Florida, a real estate agent and mortgage broker, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme relating to properties in the Versailles development in Wellington, Florida.
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A Chicago area real estate investor, the president of a Colorado real estate financing company, and a licensed appraiser were indicted for allegedly participating in a scheme to fraudulently attempt to obtain mortgage loans totaling more than $750,000 by selling three residential properties in Chicago to nominee buyers.
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Jared Mitchell Rothenberger, 43, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was indicted and charged with allegedly defrauding mortgage lenders out of millions of dollars in connection with the sale of condominiums at Chateau Ridge, Burnsville, Minnesota.
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Sergio Martinez, 35, Tucson, Arizona, is the subject of an indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury on March 29, 2012, and now unsealed, which charges the former loan officer with bank fraud, false statement to influence a financial institution, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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