EBENSBURG — A Portage woman has pleaded guilty in Cambria County court to five counts of deceptive or fraudulent business practices for incidents in which she and her husband failed to deliver modular or manufactured homes purchased from them.
Tina Diane Seaman, 38, of the 100 block of Popish Road, Portage, will be sentenced April 13 by Judge Linda Fleming.
The charges, which were reduced from felony to misdemeanor offenses, carry maximum terms totaling 10 years in prison and/or $12,500 in fines.
In January, Seaman’s husband, Thomas, was sentenced by Judge Gerard Long to a suspended jail term of one to two years in county prison, plus another 10 years on probation, after pleading guilty to the more serious charges of theft by deception.
Under the couple’s plea bargains, Thomas Seaman has paid $20,000 on the $206,260 owed in restitution, costs and fines. Each of them is to pay $500 a month on the restitution, according to court records
State police alleged that the Seamans took the money but failed to deliver homes as promised to five customers in 2006 and 2007.
The Seamans operated Sunrise Mobile Homes and Triple T Construction, which was sued in county court by the state attorney general’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
In the civil lawsuit, it was alleged that 13 buyers had paid a total of $183,000 for homes never delivered.
The victims in the criminal cases were identified as Ernest James Rescinito of Northern Cambria; Celeste Clutter of Ebensburg and Harry Clutter of Akron, Ohio; RNS Services of Armagh; Bruce Strittmatter of Hastings; and Paula Jean Sirko of Nanty Glo.
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