Brett Depue, 38, Gilbert, Arizona, following a seven-day jury trial, was convicted of conspiracy and wire fraud charges for his involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme involving straw buyers and false mortgage loan applications.
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Lender Processing Services, Inc., a company which provides integrated technology, data, and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries, responded to the civil complaint filed by the Nevada Attorney General against the company in December 2011, by filing a Motion to Dismiss.
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A joint investigation alliance designed to assist homeowners who have been harmed by misconduct and fraud in the mortgage industry has been entered into between California and Nevada.
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Steven Patrick Nohrden, 36, Las Vegas, Nevada, was arrested for a scam that involved taking over vacant homes he did not own and renting them out to unsuspecting individuals. The true home owners eventually discovered that these individuals were living in their home without their consent.
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Shafik Hirji, 53, Las Vegas, Nevada, who unlawfully obtained financing on the home of one of his acquaintances, was indicted on three counts of forgery and one count of theft for obtaining the loan on the victim’s home and embezzling the proceeds.
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Cedric Nelson, 51, Las Vegas, Nevada, who owns and operates an accounting company, was arrested on mortgage fraud charges and is scheduled to appear in federal court for an arraignment.
Nelson is charged in a criminal indictment with two counts of wire fraud. The indictment was returned by the federal grand jury on May 25, 2011, and unsealed following his arrest.
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George Eggleston, 65, Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to six years and nine months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Eggleston had previously pleaded guilty to charges he committed mortgage fraud and had operated a mortgage foreclosure rescue scheme to defraud homeowners facing foreclosure. The court
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Shafik Hirji was arrested on charges of theft in excess of $2,500 – a class B felony, and three counts of Uttering Forged Instruments – class D felonies. The arrest was made in connection with Hirji‘s alleged theft of home equity in connection with a mortgage loan.
The Office of the Nevada Attorney General announced the arrest.
“This incident is yet one more
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Alex P. Soria, 64, Las Vegas, Nevada, was indicted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, by a federal grand jury on charges that he defrauded distressed homeowners in Las Vegas who were attempting to refinance or adjust their home mortgages. The Defendant was charged with six counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, one count of concealment of information from the
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Nevada has received $1,700,500 from the U.S. Office of Justice Program as a discretionary or project-driven grant to enable the Mortgage Fraud Unit within the Nevada Office of the Attorney General to expand services to deal with Nevada’s mortgage fraud and vacant property crimes.
The grant will enable the Mortgage Fraud Unit to add four investigators and two prosecutors to its current staff of three investigators and three prosecutors. The grant will enable the unit to increase the number
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