Archives For Down Payment Fraud

Billy Cannon, Sr., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a loan officer, and Margaret Keefe, a closing agent, allegedly devised and participated in a scheme to defraud banks and real estate lending institutions by submitting materially false and fraudulent loan applications.

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Alonzo Jackson Brown III, 45, Fairfield, California, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for two different schemes to defraud that collectively resulted in losses of more than $2 million.

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Antoinette Payne, 44, North Royalton, Ohio, a loan officer, was sentenced to more than two years in prison for a mortgage-fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of more than $1 million.

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Bruno Skoczynoski, 36, Dunedin, Florida, the owner of E-Value Mortgage Services and E-Value Title Services, was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven D. Merryday to two years in federal prison.

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Bruno Skoczynski, III, 36, Dunedin, Florida, the owner of E-Value Mortgage Services and E-Value Title Services, was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven D. Merryday to two years in federal prison.

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Arthur R. Seaborne, 69, Sarasota, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Seaborne faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison.

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Raymond Paul Morris, 51, South Weber, Utah, was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for his leadership role in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme linked to properties in a Putnam County, West Virginia subdivision.

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Kathy J. Mascarenas, aka Kathy Oliver, 53, Westminster, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Blackburn to serve 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud.

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George Cavallo, 47, Kirkland, Washington, his wife, Paula Hornberger, 41, Kirkland, Washington, and Joel Streinz, 54, Nokomis, Florida, a former police officer, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich to federal prison terms for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme.

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Steven R. Hinz pleaded guilty to tax fraud and mortgage fraud charges in a Cleveland, Ohio, federal court.

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