John George Coulter Jr., 79, Colorado Springs, Colorado, formerly of Placer County, California, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with 12 counts of mail fraud and four counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property.
The indictment alleges that Coulter was the operational manager for a group of investors who owned property in
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Kenneth McGavitt, 58, Washington, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of two counts of mail fraud. The federal jury of four men and eight women deliberated for one hour before rendering its guilty verdict.
McGavitt was tried before United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The evidence presented at trial established that
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Sabir Moghul, 72, Manchester, Connecticut, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford, Connecticut, to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank fraud and money laundering.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2005, Moghul applied for two mortgage loans
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Ola Suzanne Stowers, 34, Dawsonville, Georgia, was sentenced to prison by United States District Judge Richard W. Story on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Stowers was sentenced to 3 years in prison, and ordered to pay $260,171.94 in restitution. Stowers pleaded guilty to the charges on April 4,
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Jose Arnaldo Rosario, Miami-Dade County, Florida, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. At sentencing, Rosario faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years. Sentencing is scheduled for August 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM in Miami, FL, before U.S. District Judge Jose A. Martinez.
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Heyward Kelly McKnight, Jr., Augusta, Georgia, a minister, was sentenced in federal district court by United States District Judge J. Randal Hall to 15 months in prison for his role in causing a mortgage loan to be submitted based on misrepresentations to the lending bank.
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Thomas Franciose, San Francisco, California; William Freeborn, Alamo, California; Robert Kramer, Oakland, California; Thomas Legault, Clayton, California; David Margen, Berkeley, California; Continue Reading...
Robert H. Odimegwu, 43, formerly of Dedham, Massachusetts, a developer, was charged in a superseding indictment in connection with a multi-year, multi-property mortgage fraud scheme in Massachusetts.
Odimegwu has been charged by a federal grand jury with 13 counts of wire fraud and four counts of money
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Ronald Lee Wheeler, 69, Murray, Iowa, was sentenced to time served and immediately placed on five years of supervised release for providing false statements to a financial institution in 2006. United States District Court Senior Judge Ronald Longstaff also ordered Wheeler to pay restitution in the amount of $821,134, a $100.00 assessment for the Crime Victim Fund and serve 200
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Michael Anthony Hickson, 48, Commack, New York, former chief financial officer of Metro Dream Homes, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with his participation in a massive mortgage fraud scheme which
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