Couple Will Serve Federal Time for Bank Fraud

An Ankeny couple has been sentenced in a federal mortgage fraud case.

Jamie Bowers-Danielson, 35, and Matthew Danielson, 36, were sentenced Friday for submitting false documents to obtain mortgages.

Bowers-Danielson was ordered to serve 41 months in prison plus five years of supervised release. Danielson was sentenced to serve 366 days in prison plus five years of supervised release.

In one case, Danielson said he was single on a mortgage application and his wife Bowers-Danielson, a loan originator, submitted false documentation as part of the scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Bowers-Danielson also admitted to using her position to enable herself and others to qualify for mortgages using false information, the release said.

Danielson admitted to falsifying mortgage documents in 2011 to force a bank to void a foreclosure his home, according to an article in the Des Moines Register. Bowers-Danielson inflated the value of homes to help people qualify for loans, the article said.

The scheme also included a Des Moines police lieutenant from Grimes.