White Plains - Five suspects in an alleged mortgage scheme will go to trial in August to fight charges that they cost four Westchester County families their homes and cheated two mortgage lenders out of $1.4 million.
Prosecutors say the eight suspects swindled vulnerable people in Croton-on-Hudson, Yorktown, Cortlandt and Mount Vernon who were about to lose their homes. The suspects promised to help save their homes, but instead left the homeowners with nothing. They face up to 15 years in state prison on the top count of the indictment against them.
Doreen Swenson and Hubert "Phil" Hall a married couple from Tarrytown, already pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny and first-degree scheme to defraud, both felonies, for helping to set up the phony mortgages.
Hall, a former editor at a precursor to The Journal News, and his wife agreed to serve 2 to 6 years in state prison. They will be sentenced Aug. 5.
Wilma Shkreli of Westwood, N.J., also known as Wilma Gecay, also pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny. Prosecutors said she posed an an investor. She will be sentenced on July 20 to five years' probation.
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