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Hawaii Mortgage Scammers Make FBI Most Wanted List
By News Release @ 7:33 AM :: 551 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement

MOST WANTED FRAUDSTERS:

News Release from FBI, June, 2026

John Michael Dimitrion and his wife, Julieanne, were indicted in February 2009 for mortgage fraud. In April of 2009, they pled guilty to operating a fraud scheme in which they used their companies to convince distressed homeowners to relinquish their homes with the premise of improving the victims' financial position. They promised to invest the proceeds of the home sales, but instead the Dimitrions used the victims' money to fund their own lavish lifestyles. As a result, multiple families in Hawaii lost their homes.

The Dimitrions were scheduled to be sentenced in the United States District Court in Honolulu on July 6, 2010, but failed to appear at the sentencing. A federal arrest warrant for failure to appear was then issued for each of them.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of John Dimitrion and Julieanne Dimitrion. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of either of these subjects can submit tips at http://tips.fbi.gov, by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI, or by contacting the nearest FBI field office: https://fbi.gov/wanted/most-wanted-fraudsters.

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HR: FBI Hunts for Fugitive Married Couple Who Defrauded Oahu Homeowners- Reward Offered | Hawaii Reporter “Multiple Oahu families lost their homes as a result of the DIMITRIONs’ crimes.”

SPLC:  Looking for ‘Little Brother’  “Then, on Dec. 3, 2010, John disguised himself as an epileptic who needed treatment at a mainland hospital. Lying on a gurney and attached to fake medical machines, he was wheeled toward a privately chartered jet heading for Utah, while Julieanne posed as his nurse….

“I was absolutely shocked when I heard how they got out of town. Where the hell did that come from?” said attorney Michael Green, who represented John Dimitrion. He added, “Somebody reached out to them.”

Two years after their disappearance, sources within the FBI and Justice Department tell the Intelligence Report that the Dimitrions’ sophisticated flight from justice was orchestrated by the Republic for the united States of America (RuSA), the largest and most organized group of “sovereign citizens” in the country.

In late 2010, the Justice Department believes, John Dimitrion and RuSA’s president, James Timothy Turner, began corresponding online and immediately hit it off. With Turner referring to Dimitrion as “Little Brother,” plans were soon hatched for what would become a rescue mission.

The flight out of Hawaii was only the first part of their journey, however. The FBI now knows that after landing in Utah, the Dimitrions traveled to South Alabama, where they lived in a mobile home on the banks of Lake Eufaula, a sprawling lake along the Georgia border about 50 miles from Turner’s home in Ozark, Ala. As the investigation continued, the FBI added the couple to its “Most Wanted” list and offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to their capture. Last July, their case was featured in the premier episode of CNBC’s “American Greed: The Fugitives.” But by the time the Dimitrions were tracked to Lake Eufaula, they were gone again….

PDF: john-michael-dimitrion.pdf

PDF: JULIEANNE BALDUEZA DIMITRION — FBI

DCCA BREG: TOTAL ADVANTEDGE L.L.C.

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