Archives For November 30, 1999

Fidencio Moreno, Arturo Moreno, and Elena Moreno were charged in a superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, eleven counts of filing a false tax return, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and seven counts of making false statements on a loan application.

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Randy Lee Wilkins, 47, Gilroy, California, after a four-day trial, was found guilty by a federal jury who stayed until 5:15 p.m. to return the verdict.

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Alexander A. Romaniolis, 48, Irvine, California, pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud. A federal grand jury returned the three-count indictment on March 21, 2013, charging Romaniolis with mail fraud.

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Teresa Rose, Ramona, California, a real estate agent, was sentenced to 15 months in custody by U.S. District Judge John A. Houston for her role in an investment and mortgage loan fraud scheme that generated tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans and millions in illegal kickbacks to the participants.

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Rudolph Silva, Concord, Calif., Thomas Bishop, Pleasant Hill, Calif., and Leslie Gee, Danville, Calif., three Northern California real estate investors, have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.

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Anthony B. Joachim, Stockton, California, an Eastern California real estate investor pleaded guilty to conspiring to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Eastern California.

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Adorean Boleancu, 47, Napa, California, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $360,199.25 in restitution for a wire fraud offense.

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Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 54, Newport Beach, California, a fugitive hard money lender, has been extradited back to Orange County from Panama for embezzling nearly $3 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate fraud scheme.

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Florence Fung, Sacramento, California, and Michael Navone, San Rafael, California, two real estate investors, have agreed to plead guilty to their roles in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.

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David Crisp, 34, and his wife Jennifer Anne Crisp, 31, both of San Diego, California, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to charges stemming from their involvement in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme that ran from January 2004 to September 2007.

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