Woman sentenced in $4.5 million fraud scheme

ATLANTA - The fourth of four co-conspirators has been sentenced in a scheme to defraud banks, insurance and mortgage companies and the federal department of Housing and Urban Development of millions of dollars. <br> <br> Fifty-year-old Sandra Jackson of Stone Mountain was sentenced Tuesday to four years and nine months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Jackson also must pay more than $1.1 million in restitutuion. <br> <br> Jackson&#39;s three partners -- Rogena Lucile McLean, Wendy Andrea Dilbeck and Marcus Andre Stancil -- already had pleaded guilty and been sentenced. <br> <br> Jackson and the others defrauded mortgage companies and other victims by using ``straw&#39;&#39; buyers and sellers and forged documents to sell properties several times at artifically inflated prices. <br> <br> The indictment specified 89 seperate mortgage and vehicle loan transactions totaling more than $4.5 million from November 1996 to December 2001. <br> <br> Authorities said evidence in the case showed Jackson also had filed a fraudulent claim to State Farm for fire damage to a structure she had acquired through a fraudulent mortgage.