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	<title>California Real Estate Fraud Report</title>
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	<description>You have just entered the #1 private-sector resource on Google for real estate fraud in California. In doing so, you have voluntarily left the dimension of the conventional real estate world and crossed over into the Dark Side, the realm where dishonesty, conniving and evil are the order of the day and downright common. Sign up for a free subscription to this comprehensive news source and receive weekly, timely news reports about real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, short sale fraud, REO fraud, title fraud, loan fraud, appraisal fraud, affinity fraud, loan modification scams, securities fraud, rent skimming and elder financial fraud. No advertising is accepted so that my subscribers know my writing is free of influence by deep-pocket institutions.</description>
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		<title>Former Sales Manager for Discover Sales Pleads Guilty to Bribery</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4483</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Loan Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discovery Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Sterlino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sales manager for Discovery Sales, Inc. for the period of 2006-2009 has pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to paying bribes to a Bank of America loan officer for approving loans for unqualified home buyers. According to United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Jason Sterlino, 34, was managed home sales for the Monte Vista [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent San Francisco Broker Sued for Real Estate Fraud by Investors</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4479</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Investment Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telegraph Hill Properties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Poole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W.B. Coyle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco real estate broker W.B. Coyle is the target of multiple civil lawsuits by investors after complaints to the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit brought unwanted attention to him. Over a dozen investors have filed more than 20 lawsuits against Coyle, accusing him of diverting their investment funds, failing to provide financial records and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OF Lending President Target of Restitution Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4477</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Loan Modification Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Rescue Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Rescue Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OF Lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Hogarty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors in the case against William Hogarty are hoping to win restitution for Bay Area homeowners who paid a total of more than $350,000 in fees to him and his company for what is alleged to be a mortgage rescue scheme. He has been charged with 16 criminal counts of grand theft, real estate fraud and perjury; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escondido Women Sentence for 8-Year Mortgage Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4473</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bank Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loan Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmad Kikalaye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and two of her sons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohsen Kikalaye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safieh Fard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sedigheh Bahramian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Safieh Fard, 52, of Escondido, has an upcoming five year engagement in federal prison as a result of being convicted for conspiring with her family to commit bank fraud and tax fraud. Fard, her sister Sedigheh Bahramian and her sons Mohsen Kikalaye and Ahmad Kikalaye began their elaborate and profitable mortgage fraud scheme starting in 1997, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superceding Indictment Returned in Foreclosure Auction Bid Rigging Prosecution</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4466</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreclosure fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Investment Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Katakis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony B. Ghio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Joachim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory L. Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John R. Vanzetti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Swanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard W. Northcutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore B. Hutz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Longley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Daniel Olmstead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wiley Chandler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yama Marifat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Danville man who was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2011 with rigging bids at real estate foreclosure auctions and mail fraud faces new charges having to do with evidence tampering. Andrew Katakis of Danville is the recipient of a superceding indictment charging him with obstruction of justice in the federal investigation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orangevale Man Indicted by Federal Grand Jury for Mortgage Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4460</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Loan Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valeri Kalyuzhnyy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Orangevale man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts having to do with mortgage fraud and loan fraud. Valeri Kalyuzhnyy, 41,  is charged with making false statements on a loan and credit application and money laundering. The charges date back to the days of Washington Mutual Bank, Countrywide Bank, Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Man Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4456</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bank Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loan Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Straw Buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Perez Marcial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlene Jeanette Jara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candace Shantel Gonzales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eliseo Jara Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Shawn Chavez Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucia Yolanda Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Rochelle Jara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ricardo Fabian Salinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio Jara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Fabian Salinas, 34, a Los Angeles man who was one of nine people named in an indictment in July 2012, has pleaded guilty to bank fraud in relation to a mortgage fraud scheme that was perpetrated in Bakersfield. Salinas&#8217; co-defendants are Eliseo Jara Jr., Sergio Jara, Antonio Perez Marcial, Lucia Yolanda Chavez, Arlene Jeanette Jara, Candace Shantel Gonzales, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Folsom Man Goes to Prison for 10 Years for Real Estate Investment Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4451</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bank Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Investment Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Romo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groupo Immobiliare LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smarie Investments LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sycamore Ventures LLC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A man who was already on home detention for a prior conviction for bank fraud has been sentenced to federal prison for 10 years for mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. imposed the sentence on David Romo, 42, now formerly of Folson for operating a real estate investment fraud scheme that cost the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imposter Rental Scams Spread to Zillow</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4446</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rent Skimming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rental Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig's List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HotPads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Janik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Waring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zillow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before you read this article about consumers being ripped-off by phony real estate agents, phony landlords and phony property management companies, know that I complained to both the California Association of Realtors (CAR) and the National Association of Realtors  (NAR) about listings being stolen 18 months ago and they did absolutely nothing. Back then, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tampa Man Gets 26 Years for Short Sale Fraud and Foreclosure Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/4443</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Bryher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equity Skimming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreclosure fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loan Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate Investment Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Sale Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Straw Buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Lebron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EZ Investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lebron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the justice system in Florida &#8211; this would NEVER happen in California. John W. Lebron, 33, already on probation for possession with intent to sell GHB, an illegal steroid with strong sedative properties, has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for committing short sale fraud and foreclosure fraud. Lebron, a formerly licensed [...]]]></description>
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