Ex-prosecutor is accused of soliciting bribes from defense lawyers, defrauding man who had Coca-Cola stock
ABA Journal Daily News
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A Duncanville man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for defrauding homeowners who sought his help to prevent foreclosures, federal officials announced. Francisco Javier Gonzalez, 46, pleaded guilty in September 2017 to one count of mail fraud. Foreclosure News
Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin has charged a Milton, Mass., man with using a fraudulent house-flipping scheme to convince friends and investors to lend him money that he then used on restaurants, hotels and groceries. Galvin's office, which is charged with enforcing the state's securities law, said Ricardo “Rick” Bernard never spent the […]
Portage, Indiana-based lawyer Robert Jon Schlyer faces up to 30 years in prison after he was convicted on two counts of wire fraud affecting a financial institution and one count of bank fraud. The 47-year-old Schlyer was representing two co-schemers in connection with a foreclosure lawsuit. Foreclosure News
Steve Mnuchin oversaw OneWest during the time that the government said it got FHA money it didn't qualify for. The reverse mortgage subsidiary of OneWest, the bank founded and formerly run by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that was later bought by CIT Group, agreed to an $ 89 million settlement with the United States on […]
Timothy W. Burke was sentenced in Hartford today to nine years in federal prison for defrauding distressed homeowners, and tax evasion. Burke, who used multiple names to hide his true identity and criminal record from his victims, will also have three years of supervised release. Foreclosure News
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A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a scheme to bilk Connecticut homeowners facing foreclosure out of thousands of dollars by falsely promising to buy their homes and pay off their mortgages. Bradford Barneys, of Odenton, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. […]
A 65-year-old former Easton man with a long criminal past and slew of aliases pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of fraud and tax evasion, authorities said. Timothy W. Burke, who goes by the various street names of “Bill Burke,” “William Burke,” “Kerry Saunders,” “Pat Riley,” “Jim Caldwell,” “Jim Saunders,” “Tom Morrisey,” “Jimmy,” “Phil Burke,” […]