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Defendant
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Plaintiff
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Court
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Amount
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Overview
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Case Title |
Case Number
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Date Filed |
Link to StoryLink to Story |
| Amy Budrys, Anthony Greer, Jennifer F. McKenzie, and Deborah A. King |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Accused of stealing 100 files from their employer, Northside Mortgage, to take to a new company. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Anthony Paglione |
n/a |
n/a |
$350,000 |
Paglione is accused of stealing $350,000 from borrower David Roscover. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Blanca Maciel Sanchez |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Arrested for falsely representing herself as a real estate agent and mortgage broker under the names Maciel Financial Services and First Continental Mortgage. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Charles J. Antonucci Sr. |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
n/a |
$11,252,480 |
Antonucci admitted to securities fraud and attempting to obtain $11m from TARP, as well as to bribery and participating in a $37.5m scheme that left a bank in receivership. |
United States v. Antonucci |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| David Findel |
United States |
n/a |
$11,000,000 |
Defendant, former CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources Inc., pled guilty to wire fraud in connection with secondary lending fraud. |
United States v. Findel |
n/a |
10/14/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/PleaWorldwide101810.asp |
| Donna Shebetich |
United States of America |
U.S. District Court |
$1,000,000 |
Indictment of Metropolitan Savings Bank VP who allegedly underreported delinquency. |
n/a |
n/a |
10/5/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctMetropolitan100610.asp |
| Frederick Darren Berg |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington |
$100,000,000 |
Berg is accused of running a $100m Ponzi scheme and concealing $400,000 from his bankruptcy trustee. |
United States v. Berg |
CR10-310 |
10/13/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctMeridian100910.asp |
| Hawthorne Capital Corp. |
New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance |
n/a |
$41,000 |
Cease-and-desist order issued over alleged unpaid mortgage settlements. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/Licenses111010.asp |
| Howard Shmuckler |
n/a |
Prince George County |
$1,200,000 |
Indictment for owner of The Schmuckler Group. |
n/a |
n/a |
11/30/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationModificationFirms122010.asp |
| James Charles Nistler |
Oregon Department of Justice |
Oregon State Court-Jackson County |
$800,000 |
Oregon Attorney General prosecuted Nistler for fraud, theft, and racketeering. |
Oregon v. Nistler |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/mcthudconviction111810.asp |
| Jean Teresa Hoffert |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
n/a |
n/a |
Hoffert was charged with 14 counts of mail fraud, when she allegedly stole proceeds from mortgage loan closings that were intended to payoff existing liens. |
United States v. Hoffert |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Jeffrey Gonsiewski |
United States of America |
U.S. District Court |
$5,100,000 |
63-month sentence for banker who illegally changed loan terms. |
United States v. Gonsiewski |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctModificationSentence120810.asp |
| John A. Salzone Sr. |
State of New York Banking Department |
n/a |
n/a |
1- to 3-year prison sentence for mortgage fraud through his company Catskill Mortgage. |
United States v. Salzone |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| John Puglisi, Jr. |
n/a |
n/a |
$150,000 |
Puglisi plead guilty to embezzling $150,000 from customers of Puglisi Funding, Inc. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Lee Bentley Farkas |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
$1,400,000,000 |
Farkas seeks 3 additional months to prepare for trial, and is accused of masterminding a fraudulent scheme to hide hundreds of millions of dollars. |
United States v. Farkas |
1:10cr200 |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Mario S. Levis aka Sammy Levis |
United States of America |
U.S. District Court fo the Southern District of New York |
$4,000,000,000 |
60-month sentence for former Doral Financial Corp. Treasurer. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Mark Ashmore |
n/a |
U.S. District Court |
n/a |
Conviction on four counts of wire fraud. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctClosingPierceFraud110610.asp |
| Margaret Migues and Willie Doris Burney |
n/a |
n/a |
$2,386,452 |
Guilty plea for defendants who are accused of embezzling the funds from customers’ accounts. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Pamela K. Swinney |
FDIC |
n/a |
$83,415 |
15-month sentence for creating and cashing cashier’s checks using fraudulent names for 3 years. |
United States v. Swinney |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Peter Bakowski |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
n/a |
$16,000,000 |
15-year sentence for role in secondary scheme where more than one investor was sold a loan. |
United States v. Bakowski |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Rajendrasinh Babubha Makwana |
United States |
United States District Court, District of Maryland |
n/a |
Fired Fannie Mae contractor convicted of computer intrusion. Defendant propagated a malicious code after he was fired from his work laptop which was set to destroy all financial data when executed. Sentenced to 3 years, 5 months in prison for embedding malicious computer program in Fannie Mae’s system after being fired. |
United States v. Makwana |
090011-PWG |
10/4/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/FannieMalware100510.asp
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctFannieSentence121910.asp |
| Reba Glover Scott |
United States of America |
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama |
6 months in prison |
6-month sentence for stealing around $58,000 from her employer, Regions Bank. |
United States v. Scott |
n/a |
7/29/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| RETE Funding LLC, Mark H. Simmons, Cecilia Contreras |
United States of America |
n/a |
$1,000,000 |
Guilty pleas. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosureFirms121010.asp |
| Scott D. Becker |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
n/a |
$1,000,000 |
Guilty plea for role as CEO and attempted to leave the country on his 42-foot yacht. |
United States v. Becker |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| Scott D. Farah |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire |
$20,000,000 |
20-year prison sentence because violated securities laws that caused $20m in losses to 150 investors. |
United States v. Farah |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
| William Liddle, Rhonda Liddle, and Frank Ruiz |
U.S. Attorney’s Office |
U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona |
$100,000,000 |
Defendants were indicted for taking $1m in kickbacks in return for approving suspicious business loans. |
United States v. Liddle |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal120710.asp |
