NJ AG Squeezes Five Guilty Pleas From Scam Group For Roles In Use Of Dead Man's ID To Buy, Finance Home Purchase

From the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General:

• Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that five people have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme, led by a Hudson County woman, to defraud a mortgage lender of $431,200 by filing a false loan application and purchasing a home in Newark in the name of a man who was deceased. The final defendant, a Morris County lawyer, pleaded guilty [].
  
  
• The leader of the scheme, Genilza R. Nunes, 38, of Kearny (aka Leticia Wilchez, Geny Silva, Gena Nunez and Genilza Borges), pleaded guilty on May 8 to second-degree money laundering before Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto in Morris County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that she be sentenced to 10 years in state prison, including two years of parole ineligibility, and be ordered to pay a $150,000 fine.
  
  
• [P]aul DiGiacomo, 46, of Madison, a lawyer who laundered stolen funds through his trust account, pleaded guilty to second-degree money laundering before Superior Court Judge Thomas V. Manahan in Morris County. Under his plea agreement, the state will recommend that he be sentenced to eight years in state prison and be ordered to pay a $150,000 fine.

For the rest of the NJ AG press release, see Five Plead Guilty in Scheme to Defraud Lender of $431,200; False Mortgage Loan Application Results in Loan Issued to Dead Man (Leader of scheme faces up to 10 years in state prison).