Mitchell Cohen, the owner of the now-shuttered Buy-A-Home real estate brokerage in Queens, has peaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire, bank and mail fraud linked to a multimillion-dollar fraudulent mortgage scheme, Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today. StopFraud, the government’s financial fraud enforcement task force, said that Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced in April. “Mitchell Cohen was a tornado of mortgage fraud, and [more]
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