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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Ronald Lee Wheeler, 69, Murray, Iowa, was sentenced to time served and immediately placed on five years of supervised release for providing false statements to a financial institution in 2006. United States District Court Senior Judge Ronald Longstaff also ordered Wheeler to pay restitution in the amount of $821,134, a $100.00 assessment for the Crime Victim Fund and serve 200
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Fernando Chavez-Guillen, has been sued for an apparent scam being perpetrated against mobile home buyers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who paid a deposit or made a down payment and then never obtained delivery or received their deposit money back.
Chavez advertises the sale of mobile homes in a local Spanish-language newspaper, El Semanario, and then arranges to meet
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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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Iftikhar Ahmad, 40, Stockton, California, to 21 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $382,750 for multiple counts of mail fraud relating to a scheme involving the fraudulent submission of mortgage loan applications. Ahmad pleaded guilty on April 28, 2008.
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