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fraud and wire fraud involving a financial institution<br />

in the same court.<br />

From approximately 2002 until 2007, Totten was<br />

a loan officer who acted as an unlicensed mortgage<br />

broker (operating under broker licenses held by<br />

others). During this time, Totten owned or operated<br />

Integrated Home Loans, Integrated Lending, Money<br />

World, and other entities and generated business<br />

by advertising on television and other media. In<br />

2006, Totten allegedly obtained $2.2 million in<br />

mortgage loans on behalf of a single straw buyer by<br />

allegedly using false information on the straw buyer’s<br />

loan applications and then collected kickbacks and<br />

commissions on the sales. Lockard, a loan processor,<br />

worked for Totten from January 2006 through<br />

June 2007, during which time she processed these<br />

and other fraudulent loans. Lockard created and<br />

processed fraudulent loan applications and fraudulent<br />

supporting documents, such as false Certified Public<br />

Accountant letters, false bank statements, and false<br />

verification of deposit forms. She submitted them<br />

to mortgage lenders including FHLBank members.<br />

Many of the loans subsequently defaulted, causing<br />

the mortgage lenders and secondary purchasers,<br />

including the enterprises, to suffer significant losses as<br />

a result of the conspiracy.<br />

This was a joint investigation with the FBI, IRS-CI,<br />

and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District<br />

of California.<br />

Loan Officer Sentenced, Annandale, Virginia<br />

On July 30, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for<br />

the Eastern District of Virginia, Rina Delgado was<br />

sentenced to 12 months of incarceration and 3 years<br />

of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay<br />

$1,160,611 in restitution. She previously pled guilty<br />

to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.<br />

in Annandale, Virginia. In this capacity, she placed<br />

false information in loan applications and used false<br />

documents, such as W-2 forms, to qualify otherwise<br />

unqualified applicants for loans. The enterprises<br />

suffered losses exceeding $800,000 as a result of<br />

Delgado’s conduct.<br />

This was a joint investigation with the FBI and was<br />

prosecuted with assistance from an OIG investigative<br />

counsel.<br />

Servicer Allegedly Diverted Over $18 Million<br />

Owed to the Enterprises, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida<br />

On July 11, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the<br />

Southern District of Florida, a criminal information<br />

was filed against Patrick Mansell, alleging conspiracy<br />

to commit wire fraud. Mansell pled guilty on<br />

August 5, 2013.<br />

Starting in April 2007, Mansell used his position as<br />

vice president, secretary, and director of Coastal States<br />

Mortgage Corporation to defraud the enterprises.<br />

Through February 2012, Coastal States withheld<br />

mortgage loan payoffs due to the enterprises for<br />

extended periods. Coastal States would use these<br />

funds for its own business purposes and to make<br />

monthly mortgage payments on paid-off loans,<br />

misrepresenting them as performing loans. Payoffs<br />

fraudulently retained by Coastal States were also used<br />

to remit funds due to the enterprises for previously<br />

withheld payoffs. Daily and monthly servicing reports<br />

were supplied to the enterprises containing false<br />

information and altered loan-identifying numbers,<br />

which enabled the scheme to go undetected. The<br />

enterprises lost more than $18 million as a result.<br />

The Florida Office of Financial Regulation provided<br />

assistance to OIG during the initial stages of the<br />

investigation.<br />

From September 2006 until August 2007, Delgado<br />

worked as a loan officer with SunTrust Mortgage<br />

Semiannual Report to the Congress • April 1, 2013–September 30, 2013 23

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