A real estate fraud notification program was implemented in Contra Costa County, California. The purpose of the notification system is to make homeowners aware of recorded transactions to lessen the likelihood of forgeries and fraudulently recorded documents.
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Barry Winnett, 49, Roseville, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to three years and two months in prison and full restitution for wire fraud for his participation in a scheme that defrauded real estate investors of $2.9 million.
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Wiley Chandler, Andrew Katakis, Donald Parker, Anthony Joachim and W. Theodore Longley are the subject of an indictment unsealed by a U.S. District Court in Sacramento, California, for their participation in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County, California.
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A joint investigation alliance designed to assist homeowners who have been harmed by misconduct and fraud in the mortgage industry has been entered into between California and Nevada.
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John Marcus Desenberg, 44, formerly of Newbury Park, California, was arrested by FBI agents in Southern California for his alleged role in a foreclosure rescue scheme. On November 17, 2011, Desenberg was charged in a 10-count indictment alleging mail fraud.
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Charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against eight Northern California real estate investors. Each has agreed to plead guilty for their roles in two separate conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.
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Steve Zaven Kessedjian, 48, Los Angeles, California, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with mail fraud for a mortgage fraud scheme. Kessedjian was arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents and appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in Los Angeles, California.
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Angeline Lisa Lizarrago, 69, Fremont, California, was sentenced to five years for a foreclosure scam in which dozens of struggling Bay Area and Central Valley homeowners paid for foreclosure services that were never delivered.
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Thirteen additional defendants were charged in two separate indictments in the Vera Kuzmenko mortgage fraud investigation in California. The current indictments bring the total charged in this investigation to twenty-three. The two most recent indictments involve some of the straw buyers that participated in the scheme.
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Guadalupe Valencia, 47, West Covina, California, who admitted running a real estate Ponzi scheme that took in approximately $6.9 million from more than 150 victims has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison.
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