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A Takoma Park man has been sentenced to five years in prison for what authorities said were two
Mokorya Cosmas Wambura, 41, also was ordered to pay restitution of more than $400,000.
The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release that in one case, Wambura and others conspired from March 2007 to November 2008 to unlawfully use another person’s identity to buy residential property. For a home that was purchased in Hyattsville in June 2008, the conspirators “inflated the sales price by creating false documents for repairs and renovations that were never made,” the news release said.
In the second fraud scheme, Wambura and Mrisho Mavuruma Mzese conspired to sell Mzese’s Silver Spring residence to Wambura’s friend and roommate, but without the friend’s involvement, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
In the second fraud scheme, Wambura and Mrisho Mavuruma Mzese conspired to sell Mzese’s Silver Spring residence to Wambura’s friend and roommate, but without the friend’s involvement, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
The friend’s identity had been stolen, allowing Wambura to secure
Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah J. Chasanow sentenced Wambura on Monday in federal court in Greenbelt.
Wambura will be on five years of supervised released after he serves his prison time.
Mzese, 39, of Clarksburg, was convicted at trial on May 1 on 11 counts, including conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud and aggravated
The U.S. attorney’s office said another person who was involved — Edgar Tibakweitira, 37, of Severn — previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and
The investigation and prosecution are part of President Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was created in 2009, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
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Mokorya Cosmas Wambura, 45, Takoma Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from two separate residential mortgage fraud schemes.
According to his plea agreement, statement of facts, and the indictment, from March 2007 to November 2008, Wambura conspired with real estate agent Edgar Tibakweitira and others to use the identity of another individual without lawful authority to buy residential property. For example, in June 2008, Wambura used the stolen identity of another person, along with false income statements and credit information, to buy a residence in 4308 East West Highway, Hyattsville, Maryland. The conspirators inflated the value of the property by creating false documents for repairs and renovations that were never made. After the settlement, the conspirators divided up the cash received for the purported repairs.
During the second fraud scheme from July 2007 to May 2009, a conspirator sold his residence in 13202 Black Walnut Court, Silver Spring, Maryland to Wambura, and attempted to conceal the scheme by using the identity of Wambura‘s friend and roommate, without lawful authority, as the purported buyer. Wambura again made false statements about the buyer’s assets and income.
For example, Wambura listed a joint credit union account held by Wambura and his friend as an asset, which Wambura created without his friend’s knowledge. After securing the mortgage and obtaining possession of the residence, Wambura continued to use his friend’s stolen identity to become a Section 8 landlord for federally subsidized funds. Wambura received portions of the monthly rent paid by the tenant. Wambura and his conspirator also caused $29,186 in government housing program assistance checks, payable to Wambura‘s friend, to be mailed to Wambura.
As a result of the two conspiracies, Wambura caused between $400,000 and $1 million in losses to federally-insured financial institutions.
Wambura faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine on each of two wire fraud conspiracy counts, and a mandatory minimum of two years for aggravated identity theft consecutive to any other sentence. Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow scheduled sentencing for June 16, 2014 at 11:30 a.m.
Edgar Tibakweitira, a/k/a “Edgar Julian,” “Charles Edgar Tibakweitira,” and “Edgar Gaudious Tibakweitira,” 37, Severn, Maryland, previously pleaded guilty to the conspiracy and to aggravated identity theft, and has agreed to forfeit a Range Rover vehicle. Tibakweitira is scheduled to be sentenced on May 6, 2014, at 1:00 p.m.
Wambura and Tibakweitira are both detained pending their sentencings.
The plea agreement was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Cary A. Rubenstein of the Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General – Office of Investigations; Acting Inspector General Michael P. Stephens of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General; Special Agent in Charge Kathy Michalko of the United States Secret Service – Washington Field Office; John L. Phillips, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, U.S. Department of the Treasury – Office of Inspector General; and Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised HUD-OIG, FHFA-OIG, Treasury OIG, U.S. Secret Service and Baltimore HSI for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristi N. O’Malley and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin DiGregory, Investigative Counsel for the Federal Housing Finance Agency Inspector General, who are prosecuting the case.
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