STATESVILLE, N.C. B Roger Dean Bailey, Jr., 41, or Hickory, N.C. was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for his role in a mortgage and consumer fraud conspiracy involving manufactured and modular homes, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees also ordered Bailey to serve two years under court supervision and to pay restitution, the amount of which will be determined at a later date. Bailey pleaded guilty in October 2011 to conspiracy and fraud charges related to his and his conspirators’ lies to buyers of manufactured and modular homes, to lenders who financed the home sales, and to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which guaranteed the loans.

U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today’s announcement by Nadine Gurley, Special Agent in Charge, Office of the Inspector General, Office of Investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD-OIG); Karen Citizen-Wilcox, Special Agent in Charge, Office of the Inspector General, Office of Investigation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture..