Alexander Otis Matthews, 46, Dunn Loring, Virginia, a real estate businessman, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with mortgage and investment schemes to obtain more than $12 million in fraudulent loans.
Matthews pleaded guilty before Judge Liam O’Grady in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia to one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud. Matthews was charged with bank fraud on Nov. 17, 2010, in an
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Jeff McGrue, 51, Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for running a scheme that defrauded owners of distressed Southern California homes by promising to prevent foreclosure through the paying off of their mortgages, but in reality doing no more than sending their lenders fake notes, totaling $55 million, that were supposedly backed by Treasury bonds.
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Christian Tudorof, 43, Stamford, Connecticut, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis in New Haven to one count of wire fraud stemming from a $4 million mortgage fraud scheme.
According to court documents and statements made in court, between December 2006 and March 2007, Tudorof submitted mortgage
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Jean Teresa Hoffert, 59, Emmetsburg, Iowa, a real estate broker who stole mortgage loan proceeds received during real estate closings, pled guilty on July 5, 2011, in federal court in Sioux City. Hoffert was convicted of one count of mail fraud.
At the plea hearing Hoffert admitted defrauding others out of
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Lorn Leitman, 61, Miami, Florida, an attorney and C.P.A., was sentenced by a federal district court judge to 210 months’ incarceration for his role in a 10-year Ponzi scheme. In an unusual decision, the court departed upward from a sentencing guideline range of 121-151 months, commenting that, “this case is exceptional.”
A federal grand jury charged the defendant with violating the mail fraud statute for
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Jason Heath Morrison, 35, Midland, Texas, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his role in a real estate fraud scheme, as well as for his failure to register as a sex offender.
Morrison‘s co-defendant, Marcus Jacob Rosenberger, 35, Odessa, Texas, was sentenced
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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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