NJ Attorney Gets Seven Years For Role In ID Theft Scam That Led To Home Purchase & Financing In Name Of Dead Man

From the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General:

• Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that a lawyer from Morris County was sentenced to prison today for his role in a scheme 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.
  
  Paul DiGiacomo, 46, of Madison, was sentenced to seven years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Thomas V. Manahan in Morris County. He was ordered to pay $42,404 in restitution and a fine of $150,000 for money laundering. DiGiacomo pleaded guilty on May 21 to second-degree money laundering. He admitted that he laundered the stolen loan proceeds through his attorney trust account. Deputy Attorney General Marysol Rosero prosecuted the case and handled the sentencing for the Division of Criminal Justice Financial & Computer Crimes Bureau.
  
  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. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 12. 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.

For the New Jersey AG press release, see Morris County Lawyer Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison in Scheme to Defraud Lender of $431,200 (False Mortgage Application Resulted in Loan Issued to Dead Man).