March 8, 2022 – Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Daniel B. Brubaker, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced today that SERGIO LORENZO RODRIGUEZ, of Orange County, California, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent foreclosure rescue scheme that took in at least $5 million in prohibited advance fees from thousands of financially distressed homeowners.  RODRIGUEZ pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said:  “As he admitted today, for years, Sergio Lorenzo Rodriguez took advantage of desperate homeowners who were facing foreclosure and eviction to collect from them, in the aggregate, millions of dollars in advance fees based on promises that Rodriguez knew he could not, or would not, keep.  He exploited the financial vulnerability of his victims and is now being held accountable for his crime.”

According to the Complaint, the Indictment,^[1] and statements made in court, and publicly available documents:

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