SANTA ANA A Brea man who admitted to running a multi-million-dollar mortgage-modification fraud apologized Monday as a federal judge sentenced him to more than eight years in prison.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ordered Bryan D’Antonio to serve 97 months in prison, 12 months in a halfway house, three years of supervised probation and to pay back $3 million in restitution.
D’Antonio, the owner and operator of Rodis Law Group, last year agreed to a plea deal requiring his admission to defrauding more than 1,500 people out of $9 million.
The judge noted that the actual monetary impact of the fraud was likely much higher, because many victims lost homes with equity in them.