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Four indicted for wire fraud in Miami
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The Blotter
Thursday, May 22, 2014
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Wifredo Ferrer, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George Piro, special agent in charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Drew Breakspear, Commissioner, Florida Office of Financial Regulation, announce that Karl Oreste, 56, of Miramar, Marie Lucie Tondreau, a/k/a Lucie Tondreau, 54, of North Miami, Okechukwu Josiah Odunna, a/k/a O.J. Odunna, 49, of Lauderdale Lakes, and Kelly Augustin, 57, of North Miami, have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and six counts of wire fraud.
According to the allegations in the indictment, between December 2005 and May 2008, Oreste, president of KMC Mortgage Corp. of Florida, a mortgage lending business in North Miami Beach, identified residential properties in South Florida that were for sale. Oreste and Tondreau hosted several radio show programs in the South Florida area in which they advertised the services offered by KMC Mortgage. Oreste and Tondreau recruited and paid some of the listeners who responded to those advertisements, as well as other individuals, to pose as borrowers to purchase properties identified by Oreste. Augustin, an employee of KMC Mortgage, also recruited straw borrowers.
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