Fort Myers Attorney Indicted in Mortgage Fraud Scheme

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A suspended Florida attorney is facing three decades behind bars for lying on a mortgage application as part of a much larger $4.2 million scheme.

The defendant, John Evans, was indicted this week on one charge of wire fraud and one count of failure to file an income tax return, according to records filed in District Court for the Middle District of Florida Fort Myers Division.

The charges are tied to an alleged mortgage scheme in which Evans convinced a financial services firm to lend him $616,250 to cover the mortgage on a Cape Coral, Fla., property.

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