The Patels Created Fake Loan Officers and Employees in $8.5 Million Fraud Scheme

June 18, 2024

Delaney Sexton
Contributing Editor

The Patels Created Fake Loan Officers and Employees in $8.5 Million Fraud Scheme

Maya Greer

At Nikesh and Trisha Patel’s fake lender, Community 1^st Mortgage, they also created a fake loan officer. “Maya Greer” was the Senior Vice President of the fake lender. Trisha played the role of Maya and sent wire communications to various entities under Nik’s guidance. This included communicating with the USDA through the fake identity.

The government obtained records from Go Daddy.com, LLC that show the Community 1^st domain was created at the beginning of 2021. Maya’s email address, maya@community1stmortgagetrust.com, was under this account, but the emails resolve to an email address connected to Trisha. Frequently, emails sent by Maya/Trish would be authored by Nike Patel. He would send emails to Trisha through the Seminole County Jail email system. His emails contained the exact language Trisha was supposed to use when sending emails as Maya. The plea agreement says “it is clear from these repeated emails that Trisha Patel is managing the ‘Maya Greer’ email account and Nikesh Patel is directing her what to write in those emails.”

Robert Engelmeyer

Yet another fake identity created by the Patels was Robert Engelmeyer. Trisha Patel sent the USDA a balance sheet for the Precision Powered Products, Inc. business, and Engelmeyer signed the loan document. The FBI found that Robert’s phone number was obtained using an app known as “Burner”. Using the app, Trisha was able to add an additional phone number on her existing phone. On the same day, Trisha created Robert’s phone number, she also created his email address. The recovery phone number for Robert’s email address was Trisha’s phone number.

The Robert Engelmeyer Yahoo mail address was used to facilitate and conceal the fraud and send wires. Precision Powered Products, Inc. has confirmed that Robert Engelmeyer is not a person who works at the business. Further, the business never applied for or authorized a loan application under the business’s name to the USDA.

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Trisha Patel Plea Agreement