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Paul Mancuso, 49, Glen Rock, New Jersey, pled guilty in Newark, New Jersey, federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with fraudulent investment schemes that defrauded 15 victims of more than $3 million.

According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court:

On August 21, 2014, a federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey indicted Mancuso on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud. It also charged Pasquale Stiso, 53, West Harrison, New York, with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud. Continue Reading…

Ross Shapiro, 41, New York, New York; Michael Gramins, 33, New York, New York; and Tyler Peters, 32, New York, New York; were indicted by a federal grand jury in New Haven, Connecticut in a 10-count indictment charging the three former New York-based bond traders for Nomura Securities International, with conspiracy and fraud offenses.

Shapiro, Gramins and Peters are scheduled to be arraigned on September 10 at 10 a.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford, Connecticut.

As alleged in the indictment, Shapiro, Gramins, and Peters supervised the Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (“RMBS”) Desk at Nomura Securities International (“Nomura”) in New York. Shapiro was the Managing Director who oversaw all of Nomura’s trading in RMBS, Gramins was the Executive Director of the RMBS Desk and principally oversaw Nomura’s trading of bonds composed of sub-prime and option ARM loans, and Peters was the senior-most Vice President of the RMBS Desk and focused primarily on Nomura’s trading of bonds composed of prime and alt-A loans. Continue Reading…

Anika N. Greene, 42, Bronx, New York, was convicted by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, access device fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft.

Green was charged in a superseding indicted on July 15, 2014. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Greene and three other individuals, Jeffrey Washington, Alice Howard, and Catya J. Craig, burglarized Wells Fargo mortgage offices throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland in 2012 and 2013. The defendants stole over 1,800 mortgage files that were then used in a variety of bank customer impersonation and retail credit fraud schemes, targeting various banks and retailers. Washington recruited individuals to go into banks, impersonate customers and remove funds via setting up business accounts and transferring funds from the accounts of bank customers. Washington and other defendants, including Greene, traveled from New York to the Eastern District of Virginia on multiple occasions throughout 2012 and 2013. Continue Reading…

Jonathan Lyons, 53, a former sales representative at a company purporting to provide mortgage modification services, Rockville Center, New York, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme that victimized more than 500 financially struggling homeowners across the country.  Lyons, who was arrested in October 2013, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels.

According to the allegations contained in the Indictment and related Informations, the plea agreements, and statements made in court proceedings: Continue Reading…

Tips to help you avoid foreclosure rescue scams

Imagine that you are one of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers at risk of losing your home. You’ve fallen behind on mortgage payments, and — the home that you worked hard to buy for your family is suddenly in jeopardy.

One day, you get a call from a company offering the help you so desperately need. A soothing voice on the other end of the phone line promises that you will be able to save your home. Desperate for any solution, you arrange a monthly payment plan, relieved that your nightmare is finally coming to an end.

 

Adam Lacerda, 31, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, was sentenced to 324 months in prison for his role in a $3 million conspiracy to scam customers by offering phony consulting services to owners of timeshares through the New Jersey-based Vacation Ownership Group LLC. Lacerda was convicted in September 2013 of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, nine counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud flowing a seven-week trial before U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman in Camden, New Jersey federal court.

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Carlton P. Cabot, 52, Stamford, Connecticut, and Timothy J. Kroll, 44, New Hope, Pennsylvania, – the former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Cabot Investment Properties LLC, respectively – were arrested for allegedly participating in a scheme to defraud investors in numerous real estate investments by misappropriating over $17 million to pay for personal and business expenses and covering up their fraud with manipulated financial statements.

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Lynda Sanabria, 51, Rockwall, Texas, was sentenced to six months in prison, followed by six months of home confinement, for her role in a commercial bribery and tax evasion scheme. Sanabria admitted accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in return for selling mortgage loans to her preferred customers on the secondary mortgage market.

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Maximus A. Yaney, 38, New York, New York, pled guilty to mortgage fraud and was sentenced by United States District Judge J. Phil Gilbert to 18 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Yaney made several misrepresentations and engaged in numerous fraudulent acts in order to persuade lenders to finance the purported $9,780,000 sale of one of the rental properties.

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Mario Alvarenga, Rajesh Maddiwar, and Amir Meiri were arrested for participating in a scheme wherein, through an organization that advertised help to those seeking loan modifications to avoid foreclosure, obtained millions of dollars by deceiving homeowners into selling their homes to a company associated with the defendants.

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