The founder and former CEO of Live Well Financial, Inc. is facing a lengthy prison sentence for multiple counts of fraud in a bond pricing scheme. The operation led to the closure of his mortgage company.   A federal jury in Manhattan found Michael Hild, 46, guilty of five criminal counts. He was convicted of…

Five individuals were arrested for their alleged roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that led the Federal Housing Administration and others to lose millions of dollars. The group was accused of running fraudulent short sales in New York. The five peopled nabbed in the scheme were Iskyo Aronov, 32, Michael Konstantinovskiy, 33, Michael Herskowitz, 40,…

A Long Island man was arrested for real estate fraud in which he allegedly swindled two women from Freeport out of more than $150,000 while posing as a realtor. He was charged with two counts of grand larceny in the scheme, which took place over a three-year period. Rickie Roberts, 58, was arrested after a…

Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty to state fraud charges. He was accused of falsifying business records and running a multimillion-dollar residential mortgage fraud scheme in New York. State prosecutors charged Manafort, 70, with 16 counts of fraud. He is already serving a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence after…