U.S. court charges man arrested in Albania

TIRANA, April 6 – Arrested in Albania last year and then extradited to the United States, the owner of a Connecticut mortgage company pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court Monday to multiple fraud charges for leading a conspiracy that federal prosecutors say stole more than $1 million in home loans from Banks.
George Hajati, 31, of Westerly Terrace in Rocky Hill, was accused of conspiracy and eight counts of fraud.
Hajati owned Connecticut Partners Mortgage on Weston Street in Hartford and was charged in the conspiracy with Justin Williams, 32, of Newington, a loan officer and employee, and Douglas Sheehan, 39, a Meriden lawyer, according to a report by the Hartford Courant, a newspaper published in the area.
According to an indictment, the three men were accused of using misleading documents to induce lenders to make inflated loans to the buyers of property worth substantially less than the loan amounts.
FBI agents raided his Weston Street offices in November 2007, and a week later he fled the country. In January 2008, Hajati met Williams in Australia and the two traveled to Albania, federal prosecutors said.
In March, 2009, a month after Hajati and Williams were indicted by a grand jury in Hartford, Hajati was arrested by Albanian authorities trying to cross the border to Montenegro. He was extradited to the United States in July.
He faces maximum sentences of 30 years on each of the charges he faces.