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.

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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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Kenneth J. Enrico, 46, Bohemia, New York, a broker, has been indicted for conspiring to defraud 350 financially strapped customers of more than $1.2 million.

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Jean Marc Eljwaidi, 44, Las Vegas, Nevada, who fraudulently enticed persons to give him almost $2 million for the development of a local commercial real estate project that never materialized, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution.

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Robert Rivernider, 47, Wellington, Florida, Loretta Seneca, 50, Boynton Beach, Florida, and Robert Ponte, 59, Stonington, Connecticut, who had been on trial in Hartford, Connecticut, federal court, have pleaded guilty to various offenses stemming from two separate investment schemes.

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Karen Galo, 33, Key West, Florida, has been indicted and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of disclosing the contents of a federal grand jury subpoena to a third party, with the intent to obstruct a judicial proceeding.

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A BROTHER and sister face a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act after being convicted of involvement in mortgage scam offences. Last September Ejaz Ul Hassan, 33, of Dewhirst Road, Huddersfield, was jailed…

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Lance Kellow, 36, Henderson, Nevada, following a nine-day jury trial, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud for committing mortgage fraud crimes that caused losses to federally insured financial institutions of over $1 million.

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Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said her office’s Mortgage Fraud Unit highlighted the most common mortgage fraud complaints from 2012, with suspicious or fraudulent loan modification offers…

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