A Placer County woman convicted in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Vera Kuzmenko, 46, of Loomis was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for multiple counts of mail and wire fraud, witness tampering and money laundering associated with her involvement in the scheme that cost financial institutions more than $16 million, according to a U.S. attorney’s office news release.
On Dec. 4, after a 16-day trial in federal court in Sacramento, a jury returned guilty verdicts for Kuzmenko and Rachel Siders, 40, of Roseville. Siders is to be sentenced June 21.