D.C. woman sentenced in $78m mortgage fraud scheme

A District woman has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme that authorities say bilked people across the country out $78 million.

U.S. District Judge Roger Titus sentenced 53-year-old Carole Nelson on Monday in federal court in Greenbelt to two years and five months behind bars and ordered her to pay more than $34 million in restitution.