Kartesz Furlough Request Denied
Former McKean County landlord Frank Kartesz II will not be spending the holidays at a luxury hotel in Pittsburgh as he had hoped.
Kartesz was sentenced in September of 2008 to three years and seven months in a federal prison in West Virginia for his part in a mortgage fraud scheme in Erie County, and is now at a Pittsburgh halfway house.
He asked the court for a 72-hour furlough from December 16 to 18 so he could visit with family at the Omni William Penn Hotel. A judge denied the request.
In the mortgage fraud scheme Kartesz and his co-conspirators bought rundown houses and sold them at inflated prices to people with low incomes who did not know a lot about buying homes.
Kartesz was sentenced in September of 2008 to three years and seven months in a federal prison in West Virginia for his part in a mortgage fraud scheme in Erie County, and is now at a Pittsburgh halfway house.
He asked the court for a 72-hour furlough from December 16 to 18 so he could visit with family at the Omni William Penn Hotel. A judge denied the request.
In the mortgage fraud scheme Kartesz and his co-conspirators bought rundown houses and sold them at inflated prices to people with low incomes who did not know a lot about buying homes.
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