A fourth person connected with a broad North Texas mortgage fraud investigation has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 28 years in prison.

Darrell Marriott, 57, of Gun Barrel City, admitted to a count of execution of a document by deception. Marriott joined his wife, Kandace Marriott, 54, Kandace Marriott’s sister Karen Hayes, and the Marriott’s daughter, Kally Marriott, in creating false mortgage applications in Navarro County.

Kandace Marriott is serving a 99 year prison sentence; Hayes, 59, is serving an 18-year sentence, and Kally Marriott, 24, served four months in prison as part of her probation.

The Marriott’s scam extended into Ellis, Kaufman and Henderson counties, and the pleading and sentencing Wednesday brings to a close the investigation conducted by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s White Collar Crime and Public Integrity Section.

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