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2012 

Chesapeake Men Indicted for Foreclosure Rescue Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office January 19, 2012 Eastern District of Virginia (757) 441-6331   NORFOLK, VA—Philip Villasis, age 41, and Ray D. Gata, age 56, both of Chesapeake, Va., were indicted by a Norfolk federal grand jury on nine charges includi...
01/20/2012
$10 Million Returned to Victims of Public Corruption Scheme, Including Kodak and the Town of Greece U.S. Attorney’s Office January 18, 2012 Western District of New York (716) 843-5700   ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that more than $10,000,000 in forfeited pro...
01/19/2012
Boynton Beach Man Sentenced to Jail in Mail Fraud Ponzi Investment Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office January 18, 2012 Southern District of Florida (313) 226-9100   Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau...
01/19/2012
Former Hells Angels President Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison in Multi-Million-Dollar Mortgage Fraud, Money Laundering Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office January 18, 2012 Northern District of California (415) 436-7200   SAN FRANCISCO—Raymond Foakes, 48, of Rohnert Park, California, was se...
01/19/2012
Naugatuck Resident Admits Role in Decade-Long Mortgage Fraud Scheme in Bridgeport U.S. Attorney’s Office January 18, 2012 District of Connecticut (203) 821-3700   David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT ILUNGA, 48, of Naugatuck, waived his rig...
01/18/2012
Attorney and Businessmen Sentenced to Jail for Fraud U.S. Attorney’s Office January 18, 2012 Northern District of New York (315) 448-0672   On January 13, 2012, U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd sentenced BENJAMIN VILOSKI, age 63, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a 60-month term of imprisonment t...
01/18/2012
Washington County Man Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Mortgage Fraud Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office January 17, 2012 Western District of Pennsylvania (412) 644-3500   PITTSBURGH, PA—A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 57 months in prison on his convi...
01/18/2012
Straw Buyer Admits Lying to Obtain Loans Robert Veazie has pleaded guilty to a fourth superseding criminal information in connection with obtaining residential home loans, including some in the Kirby Lofts condominium complex. Veazie entered his plea to one count of filing a false income tax retu...
01/18/2012
Guilty Pleas Entered in Mortgage, Tax and Property Management Fraud Scheme Bryan W. Talbott, 48, and Chester D. Ransom, Jr., 44, owners of a property management company, have pleaded guilty to defrauding their clients, mortgage lenders, and the government out of more than $2.8 million. The defend...
01/18/2012
Mortgage Fraudster with $70,000 in his Cowboy Boots Admits Scam Christopher J. Warren, 29, Folsom, California, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft related to a $19 million fraud scheme. As previoulsy reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, Warren was indi...
01/18/2012
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