David R. Sharrock, 71, Mansfield, Ohio, was sentenced to 135 months in prison and ordered to pay $767,462 in restitution for his role a mortgage fraud scheme which caused approximately $1.3 million in losses to five lending institutions.
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Mayor Eldridge Walker is facing charges following indictment by a Sharkey County, Mississippi, Grand Jury for his alleged role in submitting false documents to Federal Home Loan Bank.
Blair Christopher Hanloh, 50, Long Beach, California, was sentenced to four years in state prison for recording false quitclaim deeds on several residential properties as part of an elaborate scheme to possess and rent out properties valued at over $3.5 million.
Laurance H. Freed, 51, Chicago, Illinois, and Caroline Walters, 53, of Palatine, Illinois, two executives of a prominent Chicago real estate development company, were indicted on federal fraud charges alleging that they lied about and concealed unpaid property taxes, the double-pledging of public financing notes issued by the City of Chicago, and the company’s default on those notes so they could secure credit extensions and payments from the city at a time when they knew their firm was having serious financial difficulties.
Derek Barnhill, 49, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was sentenced to three months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, which is to include nine months of home confinement, for his bank fraud and money laundering conviction.
Keith Churn, 44, Nashville, Tennessee, was found guilty of bank fraud by a federal jury on Friday, December 6, 2013.
Henry J. Papale, 62, Southington, Connecticut, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a mortgage fraud scheme.
Frank Mete, 55, Berlin, Connecticut, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to fraud and tax evasion offenses stemming from an investment fraud scheme.
Nine defendants have been indicted in two separate mortgage fraud cases. Seven defendants were charged together in one case, and two in the second case, together alleging schemes to fraudulently obtain at least four residential mortgage loans totaling more than $1 million from lenders.
Four defendants have been sentenced in a mortgage fraud case: Christopher Ginyard, 27, Wichita, Kansas, two years supervised release and $40,000 restitution; Henry Pearson, Jr., 29, Wichita, two years supervised release and $56,000 restitution; Henry Pearson, Sr., Wichita, two years supervised release and $55,180 restitution; and Bruce Dykes, 45, Wichita, two years supervised release and $14,872 restitution.