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In the following To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily. A. Brian Albritton, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that U.S. District Judge James S. Moody today sentenced Victor Thomas Clavizzao (age 46, of St. Petersburg) to 5 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit mortgage fraud. The court also ordered Clavizzao to pay $2,074,895.60 in restitution and to forfeit an additional $5,946,300. Clavizzao had entered a guilty plea on September 23, 2009[8].

According to court documents [To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily.], Clavizzao (pictured below) acted as [an unlicensed] mortgage broker in the purchase of 13 different properties. Clavizzao conspired with other to submit false and fraudulent information (e.g., fraudulently inflated income) to various lenders in order to induce the lenders to fund bad loans. [Ed. note - The information lists one property caught up in the scheme at 3521 62nd St North, St. Petersburg.]

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Clavizzao’s co-defendant, Mark Lepzinski (age 51, of Clearwater) a Pinellas property flipper who obtained fraudulent loans with Clavizzao’s help, was previously sentenced by U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore to 13 months in federal prison for his role in the conspiracy.
[Ed. note - the To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily. for Lepzinski lists the same property lists the same property]

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Thomas N. Palermo.
To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily.to read an article from 2007 in the St. Petersburg Times about Clavizzao’s previous criminal conduct which contains some “colour” for this article.


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