Mortgage Broker, Attorney, Loan Officer Sentenced In South Florida Scam Resulting In $37+M In Fraudulently Obtained Mortgages

From the office of the U.S. Attorney - Southern District Of Florida:

• R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that defendants Richard Weldon Crowder, II, and Gary Mark Mills were sentenced today by United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez to 108 months’ and 46 months’ imprisonment, respectively. Co-defendant Karen Lynn Sullivan was sentenced yesterday to 50 months’ imprisonment. The defendants were sentenced for their roles in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud conspiracy.

• Crowder is a former licensed mortgage broker and the former owner of America’s Best Mortgage Services, Inc., located in Coconut Creek, Florida. Mills is a former title attorney and the owner of Four Star Title Inc., located in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Sullivan is a former loan officer for Wachovia Bank. [...] In total, the defendants caused the fraudulent purchase of seventeen (17) different luxury condominiums at The Continuum on South Beach and at The Point in Adventura using more than $37,000,000 in fraudulently obtained mortgage loans.

For the details, see U.S. Attorney Press Release - Orchestrators Of Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Scheme Sentemced.

To view original criminal charges, see Charging Document (Criminal Information) - U.S. v. Crowder, et al.