William R. “Rusty” Beamon, Jr., 52, DeKalb County, Georgia, a former bank employee, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on February 26, 2013, on charges arising out of a scheme to defraud his former employer Appalachian Community Bank (also known as Gilmer County Bank).
Continue Reading...Alicia Holmes, 49, pled guilty to a three-count indictment, charging Holmes with devising and operating a scheme to defraud individuals and entities of hundreds of thousands of dollars in accommodations, goods, services, and money.
Che M. Brown, 45, Washington, D.C., was sentenced to three months of incarceration on a federal charge of bank fraud stemming from a scheme in which he submitted false documents to a mortgage lending service to win approval of a modification on a mortgage for his residence.
In January, Neal Sultzer of the now-defunct firm Ackerman, Raphan & Sultzer in Oceanside was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison and two years of supervised release after pleading guilty…
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A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted a Katy couple and Las Vegas woman in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme, officials said Wednesday. Derrick Phelps, 44, his wife, Cynthia Phelps, 34, and Linda M
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Laura Cecilia Carlson, 66, Hacienda Heights, California, was sentenced to 11 years 8 months, in prison after being found guilty at a jury trial. Carlson was convicted of 14 separate felonies including foreclosure consultant fraud, filing a false document, grand theft and money laundering.
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The five most common consumer mortgage fraud complaints addressed by the Nevada Mortgage Fraud Unit, which investigates and prosecutes violations of mortgage fraud, as well as foreclosure rescue fraud, foreclosure fraud, and any and all other theft related crimes arising out of mortgage related transactions, have been announced for 2012.
Julietta Quinones, 44, Port Hueneme, California, is the subject of a felony complaint charged with seven counts of grand theft, along with an aggravated white-collar crime enhancement alleging the thefts involved the taking of more than $100,000.
According to Tomko, he worked for three years as an FBI informant, collecting $27,000 in 2007 and 2008, to assist agents in other mortgage fraud investigations. He said he provided a Cleveland house for agents…
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Mrs. Berger and her estranged husband, Jay Berger, ran Blawnox-based Steel City Mortgage Services Inc., and both pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering for arranging loans based on…
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