Mortgage broker pleads guilty in fictious repair scam that defrauded lenders
4 octobre 2007 – 23:08In the following press release Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced today that Daniel Goodwin, a mortgage broker in Augusta, Georgia, entered a guilty plea today in U.S. District Court in Augusta before U.S. District Judge Dudley H. Bowen, Jr. Goodwin, age 42, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 in connection with a scheme to defraud various residential mortgage lenders by submitting fictitious repair estimates to the lenders in order to receive additional money at the home sale closings.Goodwin will be sentenced upon the completion of a pre-sentence investigation report. The offense for which he has been convicted carries a maximum statutory penalty of five (5) years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000. A sentencing date has not been set. Goodwin remains on bond pending his sentencing. Booth praised the work of agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who investigated the case. The government is being represented by Assistant United States Attorney Brian F. McEvoy.
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