http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com This report spotlights real estate professionals and businesses lacking the ethics and conscience to treat their fellow humans in a fair, honest and upstanding manner. It is a clearinghouse for real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, loan fraud, appraisal fraud and elder financial fraud occurring in California, especially Los Angeles and Southern California. - Monique Bryher Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:30:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Four members of a family - including a mother and her two daughters - have been charged in a real estate fraud scheme that amount to at least $16 million.  They took out 54 loans against 29 properties using straw buyers and allegedly altered loan documents, inflated the incomes on ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/867 John Bui is on his way to a 41 month stay in federal prison and $3.5 million in restitution after being sentenced conspiracy to commit wire fraud, destruction of records in a federal investigation and witness tampering. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Bui wrote fraudulent loan applications for six ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/865 In a plot that has been repeated many times in the California Real Estate Fraud Report, a gang member pled guilty in federal court to operating a mortgage fraud ring that included at least 24 people. It entailed straw buyers, phony appraisals, fraudulent applications for mortgages and falsified escrow documents ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/863 A real estate agent and her father are accused of money laundering, conspiracy and grand theft in Bakersfield and are wanted on outstanding arrest warrants of $1 million each. Augustine Ramirez applied for loans for five homes in less than two months, indicating on each loan application that the homes were ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/849 County prosecutors issued an arrest warrant last week for a man accused of bilking an 89-year-old Pacifica woman out of nearly $600,000. Fetuu Tupoufutuna has fled the country in the face of allegations he conned an 89 year-old woman in Pacifica out of almot $600,000. Tupoufutunas has been charged with ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/844 Despite evidence to the contrary, appraiser Kirksey J. "Mark" Newton Jr. will not lose his appraiser's license as the result of complaints against him to the California Office of Real Estate Appraisers (OREA). Newton had been an appraiser for the now-defunct Crisp and Cole real estate brokerage in Bakersfield and their ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/840 This is the story of an attorney who is about to lose his right to practice law. The California Bar Journal reported that Christopher Lee Diener (#187890) is being charged by the Orange County District Attorney's Office with one count of conspiracy to commit grand theft, 116 counts of grand theft ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/834 An elderly man is the victim of elder financial fraud, according to authorities in Riverside, who say that Gary Lee Wickham embezzled more than $120,000 from the 90 year-old.  Wickham is accused of conning the victim by issuing him promissory notes that were never performed upon. Four additional victims have reported ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/832 Two men operating a real estate fraud scam together may have lost everything with one being charged with murdering the other. Reginald Robinson is accused of murdering his business partner, mortgage lender Kasmir Billon, in order to avoid having to split the spoils of their combined real estate fraud and mortgage ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/830 A 3-year old fee imposed on real estate transactions in Kern County has resulted in a jail sentence to 37 year-old Primo Feliciano Jacquez, who pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft by pretense. Here's the kicker: two articles below in this blog, Kyle Grasso, convicted of helping to ... http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/827