Jean Teresa Hoffert, 59, Emmetsburg, Iowa, a real estate broker who stole mortgage loan proceeds received during real estate closings, pled guilty on July 5, 2011, in federal court in Sioux City. Hoffert was convicted of one count of mail fraud.
At the plea hearing Hoffert admitted defrauding others out of
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Ola Suzanne Stowers, 34, Dawsonville, Georgia, was sentenced to prison by United States District Judge Richard W. Story on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Stowers was sentenced to 3 years in prison, and ordered to pay $260,171.94 in restitution. Stowers pleaded guilty to the charges on April 4,
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Franklin R.York, Pella, Iowa, a former attorney, pled guilty in federal court in Des Moines, Iowa, to one count of wire fraud.
According to the written plea agreement, York owned and operated Escrow and Closing Services of Marion County, LLC since 2005 and provided real estate closing and refinancing
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Ronald Johannes Sneijder, 48, Herndon, Virginia, a former owner of a title and escrow company based in the District of Columbia, pled guilty to the lead count in a recently filed indictment, bank fraud. As previously reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, the indictment against Continue Reading...
Joseph Sindaco, 63, an attorney from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been sentenced on a mail fraud charge in connection with his embezzlement of funds from clients’ trust account. U.S. District Judge James Cohn sentenced Sindaco to 48 months in prison and ordered him to pay more than $3,879,896 in restitution to the victims. Continue Reading...
Barnett R. Rogers, Orangeburg, New York has been arrested and arraigned for stealing over $175,000 from two former clients that he represented during the sale of their home in Piermont, New York. Rogers is charged with one count of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a Class “C” felony.
During the summer of 2004, Mr. Ralph Libone and his wife, Georgia Libone, retained Rogers to
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David Wehrs, Sr., 55, Annapolis, Maryland, has been sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, with the first year to be served on home detention with electronic monitoring, for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud investors and financial institutions. Wehrs has also been ordered to pay $2,365,128 in restitution and to
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Jason Eric Fischer, 38, Hudson, Wisconsin, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud by stealing more than $3 million from the escrow account at the real estate title and settlement company he jointly owned. Fischer pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering in connection to his crime. Fischer
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