Eric Finger, 47, Mineola, New York, a real estate attorney, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court for his role in a $9 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Continue Reading...Mark Hotton, Long Island, New York, has been charged with defrauding others by fabricating the prospect of $4.5 million in financing commitments and the possibility of a $1.1 million loan.
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Anthony Pierre Williams, 45, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud charges in California.
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TRENTON, N.J. – The admitted ringleader of a northern New Jersey mortgage fraud scheme has been sentenced to a decade in state prison and ordered to pay restitution. The state’s attorney general says Genilza R…
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When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced at an October 9 press conference that a year-long crackdown on mortgage fraud had resulted in 285 federal criminal indictments and informations against…
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Deborah Atherton, 55, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years and two months in federal prison for her role in a loan fraud scheme and a separate bribery scheme involving contracts awarded by the Ho-Chunk Nation.
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Kessler Holzendorf, 43, Jacksonville, Florida, was found guilty of conspiracy, multiple counts of mail fraud, and multiple counts of wire fraud, in connection with his involvement in a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme.
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Stephen Kenneth Chrysler, Orange County, California, an attorney, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison for his role in an $8 million mortgage fraud scheme involving 16 homes. His mother, Aida Agusti Castro, Carlsbad, California, a real estate broker, was also sentenced for her role in the scheme, received a 33-month prison sentence.
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Three separate suits have been filed in federal court to halt the allegedly deceptive tactics of three operations that preyed on distressed homeowners by falsely claiming they could save their homes from foreclosure, and then charging them thousands of dollars up-front, while delivering little or no help and often driving them deeper into debt.
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17 defendants were charged in six criminal cases with felony offenses in the Eastern District of California during the fiscal year that closed September 30, 2012. These cases involved thousands of homeowner victims, and losses estimated by law enforcement to exceed $9 million.
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