Crime & Safety

Sewickley Heights Couple Sentenced to Incarceration

The couple was convicting of conspiring to defraud two banks in false mortgage applications on a $2.5 million condominium in Florida.

A Sewickley Heights man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and his wife will spend six months in a community confinement center on their bank fraud conspiracy convictions.

According to the information presented to the court, David F. Baker, III, conspired to defraud J.P. Morgan and Washington Mutual Bank in false mortgage applications in 2005 and 2007 on a $2.5 million condominium in Sarasota, FL, and that his wife, Beth B. Baker, conspired with him.

United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti stated that mortgage fraud is a serious crime, and that the Bakers made material misrepresentations on loan applications in order to purchase an expensive condominium in Florida.

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David and Beth Baker will also spend five years on supervised release.


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