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Mortgage Fraud Archives
Week Ending September 6, 2012
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Mortgage Fraud News
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Case Activity
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7 Years for Attorney in $30 Mil Mortgage Fraud Case
Sept. 6 -- Las Vegas lawyer Gerry Zobrist, who pleaded guilty in January to his involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders $30 million, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bodgen announced today.
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5 Year Sentence for Ore Mortgage Broker
Sept. 5 -- A Bend, Ore., mortgage broker who took advantage of the anything-goes real estate bubble to get millions of dollars through shady loan applications was sentenced Tuesday to almost five years in prison.
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| Date |
Defendants |
State |
Amount of Loans |
Overview |
Source |
| Sep 6 |
Robert Hans Schenk |
CA |
$1,700,000 |
Sentenced to 4 years. |
Department of Justice |
| Sep 6 |
Raffi Oghlian |
NJ |
$2,000,000. MJS Lending victim lender. |
Pleaded guilty. |
Department of Justice |
| Sep 5 |
Scott Lemons, Kevin Robinson |
SC |
$920,000 |
Lemons agreed to plead guilty. |
MortgageDaily.com |
| Sep 5 |
Adam Lacerda, Ashley Lacerda, Ian Resnick, Genevieve Manzoni, Joseph Diventi |
NJ |
$3,000,000 |
Adam Lacerda, Ashley Lacerda, Resnick, and Manzoni convicted. Diventi acquitted. |
Department of Justice |
| Sep 5 |
Gerry Zobrist |
NV |
$53,000,000 |
Sentenced to 87 months. |
Department of Justice |
| Sep 4 |
Lacey Phillips and Erin Hall |
WI |
$1,700,000 |
Appeals court overturned decision and ordered retrial. |
MortgageDaily.com |
| Sep 4 |
LaFrances Dudley O'Neal, Akinola George, Orpel Tucker, Donald M. Ramsey, Tania Firmani |
DC |
$2,600,000 |
O'Neal sentenced to 48 months. |
Department of Justice |
| Sep 3 |
Christopher Ginyard, Henry Pearson, Jr., Janice Young, Manjur Alam |
KS |
Multiple properties |
Pleaded guilty. |
Department of Justice |
| Sep 3 |
Peter Wilkinson, Cary Martinez, Barry Seaton, Kurtis Israel, Sean Bart, Jason Hoby, David McNulty, Amy Ridley |
OR |
$7,000,000 in losses |
Sentences: Wilkinson - 57 months, Martinez - 36 months, Seaton - 24 months, Israel, Bart, Hoby and McNulty each sentenced to 5 years probation. Ridley pleaded guilty. |
Department of Justice |
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