27 South Florida residents have been indicted on charges stemming from their participation in a series of mortgage fraud schemes that resulted in more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
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Chamethele McKinney, 36, Troy, Illinois, pled guilty to her role in a conspiracy to defraud the government and evade the payment of federal income taxes, along with mortgage fraud and food stamp fraud.
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Javier Siveroni, 48, Springfield, Virginia, pleaded guilty to using his position as a loan officer to help carry out a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving more than 15 homes in Northern Virginia.
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Howard R. Shmuckler, 67, Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been charged by a federal grand jury of running a fraudulent mortgage rescue business that received substantial fees but, in most cases, failed to modify clients’ mortgages.
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Michael A. Gmeinwieser, 38, Crofton, Maryland, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a scheme to divert over $3 million in settlement funds intended to pay off the previous mortgage on the properties to himself and his company.
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John Siuszko, 55, Wharton, New Jersey, a second man admitted his role in a $40.8 million mortgage fraud conspiracy, serving as a straw buyer to cause a lender to release almost $980,000 based on a fraudulent mortgage loan application.
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Richard Pilewicz, 54, Scottsdale, Arizona, an unlicensed real estate agent, pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges for offering to pay thousands of dollars to an individual he believed was a Bank of America employee in exchange for shortened approval times and lower appraisal values in short-sale transactions.
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Michael R. Rouse, 56, formerly of Wellington, Florida, was sentenced, in absentia, by U.S. District Judge Barbara M G. Lynn to 210 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution to the 62 identified victims of his crime.
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Darin Lee McAllister, 44, Brentwood, Tennessee, a Former FBI Special Agent, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Nashville, to 48 months in prison for his December 2010, convictions on wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud. He devised a scheme to defraud SunTrust Mortgage Co., Inc., in connection with the purchase of rental properties totaling $1.25 million in May and July 2006.
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Alonzo Gene McCowan, 51, Ventura County, California, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to three felony counts arising out of a series of real estate transactions. The crimes are alleged to have occurred during the period of October 2004 through September 2006, but were not discovered until January 2008.
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