NJ Feds Pinch Dad, Son For Allegedly Running Two Fraudulent Short Sales, Using Straw Buyers, Controlled Business Entities To Fund, Repurchase Each Property
From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Newark, New Jersey):
- A father and son were arrested [...] for engaging in a scheme that used straw buyers and short sales on two Bergen County properties to defraud mortgage lenders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
George Bussanich Sr., 56, of Park Ridge, New Jersey, and George Bussanich Jr., 35, of Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, are charged by indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and two counts of bank fraud. [...]
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Between 2009 and 2012, Bussanich Sr. and Bussanich Jr. allegedly conspired to defraud mortgage lenders through the sham short sales of two properties located on Jefferson Avenue in Emerson, New Jersey and Lillian Street in Park Ridge.
Bussanich Sr. controlled various purported medical clinics and surgical centers in New Jersey. He recruited his business partner and an employee from a sleep clinic in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, to pose as legitimate, unrelated buyers of the properties. In order to conceal his involvement, Bussanich Sr. used a business entity he controlled to fund each short sale transaction and the subsequent repurchase of those properties. Bussanich Jr., the record owner of both properties, negotiated the short sales with the lenders using materially false information that misrepresented the circumstances of the short sales, the relationships of the parties and the source of funding for the transactions.
Approximately two years after the fraudulent short sales, Bussanich Sr., bought the properties back from the straw purchasers using money that he owed the aforementioned business partner from a prior business venture.
posted by Home Equity Theft Reporter at 4:02 AM
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