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Date Published
February 03, 2014
News Type
Press Release

United States Attorney District of Maryland Press Release

Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Jared Fanning, age 35, of Potomac, Maryland, today to 22 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain mortgages worth approximately $13 million. Judge Messitte also entered an order that Fanning pay restitution and forfeiture of $108,355.21, the amount of loss attributable to him resulting from the scheme.

The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Kathy A. Michalko of the United States Secret Service - Washington Field Office; Acting Inspector General Fred W. Gibson, Jr., Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Special Agent in Charge Cary A. Rubenstein, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development....