Guilty plea in Operation Whose House

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Extradition subject Yvette Scott Patterson, who fled to Jamaica and was returned to the United States in May, pleaded guilty to her role in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme that investigators dubbed Operation Whose House. The $10 million fraud was discovered in November 2006; nine other people have pleaded guilty to similar criminal charges. Patterson faces up to five years in prison.