A Uniondale woman was convicted on Wednesday of operating multiple schemes to fraudulently obtain a $75,000 loan from local banks, Nassau County prosecutors said.

A jury deliberated for less than five hours before convicting Janelle DeFreitas, 45, of second-degree grand larceny and third-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, while acquitting her of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.

DeFreitas, who was p reviously convicted of running a mortgage fraud ring that fabricated documents for loans and used sham buyers to steal more than a million dollars from lenders, was remanded and is due back for sentencing on Dec. 18. As a second felony offender, she faces a maximum of 7½ to 15 years in prison.

"Janelle DeFreitas is a serial grifter, moving from one a

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