Matthew Paul Kay, 36, a British citizen who formerly lived in West Los Angeles and the Park La Brea district of Los Angeles, California, a former real estate agent and mortgage broker charged with running a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme was ordered held without bond after arriving in the United States to face federal fraud, identity theft and tax charges.
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James Hurst Miller Jr., 63, Paso Robles, California, was charged with federal fraud and money laundering offenses for allegedly bilking victims who invested into Central Coast real estate projects””money that was siphoned off for other purposes.
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Walter Daniel Olmstead, 39, Tracy, California, a real estate investor, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to conspiring to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County, California.
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Alonzo Gene McCowan, 51, Ventura County, California, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to three felony counts arising out of a series of real estate transactions. The crimes are alleged to have occurred during the period of October 2004 through September 2006, but were not discovered until January 2008.
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John George Coulter Jr., 79, Colorado Springs, Colorado, formerly of Placer County, California, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with 12 counts of mail fraud and four counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property.
The indictment alleges that Coulter was the operational manager for a group of investors who owned property in
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Thomas Franciose, San Francisco, California; William Freeborn, Alamo, California; Robert Kramer, Oakland, California; Thomas Legault, Clayton, California; David Margen, Berkeley, California; Continue Reading...
Alonzo Jackson Brown III, 44, Fairfield, California has been indicted on nine counts in connection with an investment fraud scheme and a mortgage fraud scheme.
According to court documents, Brown is a licensed real estate broker who used that position to perpetrate a mortgage fraud scheme. Brown is accused of
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Below are brief summaries of some of the significant mortgage fraud cases in California brought since June 18, 2010:
United States v. David Crisp, et al. The indictment alleges that, from approximately January 2004 to September 2007, the defendants operated real estate businesses in Kern County through which they submitted fraudulent loan applications
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Annita Hawes, a/a “KME,” Los Angeles, California, plead guilty to an Indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and identity theft.
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Michael Trap, San Diego, California, was sentenced on June 15, 2011, to the Bureau of Prisons for a term of 30 months as to each count, to run concurrent, 3 years of supervised release as to each count, to run concurrent, a special assessment of $100 imposed as to each count for a total of $200.00, and restitution in the amount of $460,249.
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