Michael Anthony Baker, 31, Houston, Texas, the ringleader of a mortgage fraud scheme, was sentenced to 180 months in prison for his involvement in defrauding and obtaining money from lending institutions by using straw buyers to purchase homes and submitting false/fraudulent documents to lenders.
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Rasheeda M. Canty, 38, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, a former mortgage broker, has been sentenced to a one-year prison term for her role in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme involving properties in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
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Donald MacPherson, one of the prime architects of a massive mortgage fraud involving mostly Hamptons, New York, properties, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison in Suffolk County court, New York.
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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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Jorge Abbud, 33, Dover, N.J., a former employee of a Parsippany, N.J., mortgage lender admitted to taking $138,402 in illegitimate proceeds of multiple home sales as a result of a mortgage fraud scheme.
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Eric Omar Jones, 41, Clinton, North Carolina, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III to 151 months’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release for leading a straw borrower scam that involved more than $1 million in ill-gotten gains.
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Eitan Maximov, 39, a citizen of Israel and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was convicted after a six-day jury trial on one count of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud and one count of wire fraud as a result of his leadership in a cash-back mortgage fraud scheme that took place during 2006-2008.
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Chad Evans, 37, Brookville, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Moody to 70 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank and mail fraud, and money laundering for his role in a straw buyer scheme.
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Veldora Arthur was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz to 57 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for her role in a mortgage farud scam that resulted in losses to lenders of approximately $2.5 million.
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James Robert Sweet, 44, Westbury, New York, the kingpin of the largest mortgage fraud and identity theft ring in Nassau County, New York, history has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for his role in leading an organization that stole more than $20 million from homeowners, banks, and the County government.
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