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Week Ending February 17, 2012
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Mortgage Fraud News
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Case Activity
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| Date |
Defendants |
State |
Amount of Loans |
Overview |
Source |
| Feb. 17 |
Eric Elegado, Charmagne Elegado, Theodore Cohen, Minh Nguyen, Alexander V. Garcia, Roman Macabulos, Ramin Lotfi, Roderick Huerto, Regidor Pacal |
CA |
$15,000,000 |
Indictments. |
NBCSanDiego.com |
| Feb. 17 |
Janet Damewood |
WV |
$37,000 |
Guilty plea. CitiFinancial a victim lender. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 17 |
Matthew Kent, David Rubin, Joshua Gould |
MO |
Multi-million dollar scheme |
Sentences: Kent 30 months prison and $1.2 million restitution; Gould 97 months prison and $4.3 million restitution; Rubin awaits sentencing. |
BizJournals.com |
| Feb. 17 |
Gabriel Viramontes, James Roy Martin, Mario Fellini III, Joseph Salvatore Gallo |
CA |
$8,000,000 |
Sentences: Viramontes 4 years and 9 months prison plus restitution; Martin 20.5 months prison; Fellini 6 months prison plus 5 months home detention; Gallo 5 years probation. Washington Mutual Bank, Long Beach Mortgage, and Fremont Investment and Loan victim lenders. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 17 |
Kevin Lee Grady Sr., Lynn Walters, Jimmy Ladell Collins, Carlus Demond Bridgeforth, Alina Jamelle Belmont, Kristen Sarnicola, Edward Hessie Sumrell |
MI |
Multiple properties |
Grady convicted. Other defendants have been charged and entered guilty pleas. |
MortgageDaily.com |
| Feb. 16 |
Rosa Amelia Fernandez, Raul Rocha, Luis Ramos |
CA |
Multiple properties |
Guilty pleas. Defendants await sentencing. |
MortgageDaily.com |
| Feb. 16 |
Jim Lankford, Jon McDade |
CA |
$10,000,000 |
Lankford declared bankruptcy. Defendants scheduled to begin trial on 3/26/12. |
ModBee.com |
| Feb. 16 |
James Hudson Jr. |
IN |
$35,000 |
Sentenced to 10 years probation and $52,000 in restitution. |
WLFI.com |
| Feb. 16 |
Timofey Gurin, Anna Kuzmenko, Vitaliy Andreyev, Andrey Andreyev |
CA |
$2,000,000 |
Indicted. |
MortgageDaily.com |
| Feb. 16 |
H. Gregory Cordell |
GA |
$1,000,000 |
Sentenced to 2 years and 3 months prison plus 5 years supervised release and $1,005,804.20 in restitution. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 16 |
William Randolph Tisdale, Jr., Hubert Jones, III, Lendell Beacham, Scott David Eller, Eugene J. Lockhart, Patricia Ortega Suarez, Michael Anthony Caldwell, Donna Lois Kneeland, Bryan J. Moorman, Jermaine Frederick Frazier |
TX |
$20,500,000 |
Convicted. Defendants await sentencing. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 15 |
Reginald R. Harper, Troy A. Fouquet |
LA |
$2,000,000 |
Indictments. First Community Bank victim lender. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 15 |
William R. Rice, Cheryl R. Sanford |
MI |
Multiple properties |
Indictments. |
Freep.com |
| Feb. 15 |
Antonio Pena, Claudia Xochitl Gil |
CA |
$500,000 |
Indictments. |
MortgageDaily.com |
| Feb. 15 |
Rogelio Ramirez, Jacinto Puentes, Elinor Puentes, Raul Salabarria, Theodore Tarone |
FL |
$8,000,000 |
Indictments. |
BizJournals.com |
| Feb. 15 |
Brenda Jackson, Curtis Briley |
NV |
$1,800,000 |
Jackson sentenced to 2 years prison. Briley awaits sentencing. Both defendants to share $1.8 million restitution. |
LVRJ.com |
| Feb. 15 |
Aaron Michael Hymas, Tiffany Kim Hymas, Michael J. Hymas, Shauntee K. Ferguson, Christopher R. Georgeson, Stanley J. Ferguson, Brent Bethers, Shane Merlin Hymas, Laurie Krechelle Hymas, Melody C. Redondo, Paul Redondo |
ID |
$8,000,000 |
Aaron and Tiffany indicted. Others previously sentenced. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 15 |
Richard G. Lane, Michael Lee |
MA |
$1,900,000 |
Lane convicted. Lee previously sentenced to 1 year and 1 day prison plus 3 years supervised release and $1,900,743.61 in restitution. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 14 |
Ziad Nabil Mohammed Al Saffar, Sara Beth Bushore Rosengrant, Daniel Al Saffar |
CA |
Multiple properties |
Guilty pleas. Sentencing set for 4/27/12. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 14 |
Simon Saed Alizadeh, Kian Ashkanizadeh |
CA |
Approximately $4,000,000 |
Indicted. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 13 |
Patricia Ann King (5 total) |
CA |
$530,000 |
Entered guilty plea. Sentencing set for 4/23/12. Co-defendants have pleaded not guilty. WMC Mortgage Corp. and SunTrust Mortgage Inc. victim lenders. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 13 |
Benjamin W. Richardson |
OH |
$678,275 |
Entered guilty plea. |
Department of Justice |
| Feb. 13 |
Diane H. Frederick Atari |
VA |
$50,000,000 |
Sentenced to 3 years prison. |
AgBeat.com |
| Feb. 13 |
Jacky Randall McCarter |
TN |
$500,000 |
Sentenced to 2 years prison. |
MortgageDaily.com |
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