A Bronx, N.Y., woman was sentenced to 186 months in prison for orchestrating a mortgage fraud scheme in Atlantic City, N.J., involving seven properties that were bought and sold 17 times in a little more than six months. She recruited and made large cash payoffs to a real estate appraiser  to falsely inflate the appraisals. After 17 separate real estate transactions, the straw buyers owned the seven properties — with mortgages they could not pay that were far in excess of the properties’ actual market value. The seven properties all went into foreclosure.