David Romo, 42, Folsom, California, a real estate developer, has been indicted by a federal grand jury returned a 12-count indictment with mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, related to a real estate investment scheme that defrauded investors of more than $2.5 million.
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Charles C. Jamison, 30, Citrus Heights, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to two years and eight months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Jamison pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud charges on February 16, 2011.
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Steven Charles Laubly, 62, Clovis, California, was convicted of three counts of failing to file a tax return and one count of tax evasion. The defendant evaded payment of those taxes by, among other things, purchasing property in Hawaii under another person’s name. The guilty verdict was returned by a federal court jury in Fresno, California, after a five-day trial before United States District Judge Lawrence
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Garry Bradford, 62, Sacramento, California, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against him on April 14, 2011. He is charged with wire fraud in connection with a real estate investment “Ponzi” scheme.
According to the indictment, from August 2004 until October 2008, Bradford
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Luis Miguel Macias, 40, Rialto, California, was arrested on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, by investigators from the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office-Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Unit in the hallway of the San Bernardino County Superior Courthouse.
Macias had been out on bail facing felony charges in another real estate related fraud case when investigators
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Gina Marie Tarallo, 44, formerly of Rancho Cucamonga, California, was sentenced on April 14, 2011, to 365 days in the county jail as part of a plea agreement. The court ordered restitution. Tarallo pleaded to one felony count of Grand Theft and one felony count of Filing a Forged Document with the County Recorder’s Office.
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Gabriel Richard Viramontes, 48, Elk Grove, California, was convicted of six counts of bank fraud and seven counts of mail fraud. The guilty verdict was returned by a federal court jury in Sacramento after a seven-day trial before United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia. The jury deliberated just over an hour.
According to testimony presented at trial, Viramontes
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Gregory L. Jackson, a real estate investor, pleaded guilty to conspiring to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County, California.
Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiring with a group of real estate speculators who agreed not to bid
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Christopher M. Chiavola, 32, Chico, California, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme allegedly orchestrated by co-defendant, Garret Griffith Gililland III.
According to the plea
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Juan Rangel, 47, Downey, California, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for running two fraud schemes – a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $30 million from more than 500 victims, and a mortgage fraud scheme that preyed on working-class homeowners by stealing the equity from their homes and secretly taking title to their properties.
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