Archives For November 30, 1999

Scott Eric Perry, 35, Brookwood, Alabama, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on false statement charges related to an almost $750,000 mortgage fraud scheme in the Birmingham, Alabama area.

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Kevin D. Hightower, 42, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, is the subject of a seven-count indictment charging him with defrauding lenders out of approximately $3,592,099.32 in mortgage loans in connection with 38 Columbus, Ohio, properties he purchased through his real estate investment company, Suite 500 LLC.

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Michael Anthony Prieskorn, 37, Ellendale, Minnesota, was sentenced on charges stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $18 million for mortgage lenders.

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Sergio Martinez, 35, Tucson, Arizona, is the subject of an indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury on March 29, 2012, and now unsealed, which charges the former loan officer with bank fraud, false statement to influence a financial institution, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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Gabriel Viramontes, 49, Elk Grove, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia to four years and nine months in prison and ordered to pay restitution to his victims for a mortgage fraud scheme.

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Donna Sherman, 34, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, president and owner of her title company, has been found by a jury of a pattern of corrupt activity for fraudulently closing home loans. Her title company, Sherman Title Agency, Inc. was convicted of the same crimes.

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Joseph Ulysses Grant, IV, 31, Jacksonville, Florida, a senior loan officer, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger to 30 months in federal prison for committing wire fraud.  On May 12, 2011, Grant was found guilty by a jury of two counts of wire fraud.

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Robert C. Sasser, 31, West Columbia, South Carolina, pled guilty to his involvement in eight real estate transactions financed by Wachovia for approximately $2.5 million. The loans were collateralized by homes that were significantly overvalued.

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John Pitlick, 44, New Hope, Minnesota, who had been charged with mail fraud, was sentenced on August 26, 2011, by Chief US District Judge Karen E. Schreier to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, $300,000 in restitution, and a $100 assessment to the Victim Assistance Fund.

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Robert H. Odimegwu, 43, formerly of Dedham, Massachusetts, a developer, was charged in a superseding indictment in connection with a multi-year, multi-property mortgage fraud scheme in Massachusetts.

Odimegwu has been charged by a federal grand jury with 13 counts of wire fraud and four counts of money

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