Mitchell Cohen, 54, Old Westbury, New York, the owner of the now defunct Buy-A-Home real estate brokerage business, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire, bank and mail fraud in connection with a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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Michael G. Bouchard, 49, Albany, New York, was convicted by a jury on four felony counts resulting from Bouchard’s role in a series of mortgage frauds in the Northern District of New York.
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David P. Gaylord, 52, Rochester, New York, who was convicted of bank loan application fraud, was sentenced to time served and five years’ supervised release and ordered to pay $46,914.73 in restitution.
Andrew Bartok, 66, Clifton, New Jersey, a former owner of the foreclosure remediation business Revelations Consulting, which was located in New Jersey and Connecticut, was convicted of defraud distressed homeowners, witness tampering and obstructing federal court proceedings.
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Mohamed Mahmow, 34, Syracuse, New York, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment for fronting drugs to addicts whom he knew owned real property. Once the addict had incurred a sufficiently substantial drug debt, Mahmow would require the addict to sign over any real property they owned.
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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.
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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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Michael Howard Clott, a/k/a “Michael Howard,” Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 21 years and 7 months in prison for engaging in a series of real estate investment and mortgage fraud schemes in which he attempted to steal more than $10 million from his victims.
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J. Christopher Daly, 49, New York, New York, and Michael Abreu, 43, Carmel, New York, two former executives at a real estate development and management company, were sentenced to 15 months and one year and one day in prison, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain $2.2 million from a foreign-owned bank.
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Dorian Brown, 38, Mount Sinai, New York, and Fritz Bonaventure, 30, Lithonia, Georgia, two mortgage loan officers, were sentenced for their roles in a $9 million mortgage fraud scheme.