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  1. 7 Richest Snitches: Time to Rat Out Your Boss?

    Mon, 17 Sep 2012

    25 million; March 2012 BofA in February agreed to pay fines to settle a federal probe of alleged underwriting and mortgage fraud involving subsidiary Countrywide Financial. A suit by whistleblower Kyle Lagow helped spark the investigation, and

  2. Wells Fargo Fires Employee For Stealing a Dime in 1963

    Thu, 30 Aug 2012

    a customer service representative at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in Des Moines until he was fired in July. The reason said. "The spirit of the law was to prevent widespread mortgage fraud but does not apply to my client, who is a customer service

  3. Texas Company Sues Homeowners With Foreclosed Second Mortgages

    Mon, 28 May 2012

    675,000 in 2005. His mortgage was about $540,000, and he took out a second mortgage of $135,000 to cover he pay back the second mortgage . "They said, 'You We are suing people for mortgage fraud ," he said. "They lied

  4. California Man Commits Suicide Before Foreclosure

    Tue, 22 May 2012

    long battle over their mortgage held by Wells Fargo solicited to refinance their mortgage and became locked into settlement over allegations of mortgage fraud . The bank filed a response enough time to make the mortgage current, according to

  5. 2011 Was Worst Year for Suspected Financial Crimes on Record

    Tue, 27 Mar 2012

    scams borne out of the mortgage crisis have swamped federal fraud, debit card fraud, mortgage loan fraud, casino fraud the marketplace, from mortgage financing to Ponzi schemes the number of suspected mortgage fraud crimes may have spiked

  6. 'Whistleblower' Says Mortgage Securitization Still an Issue for U.S. Homeowners

    Wed, 21 Mar 2012

    deny that the issue of mortgage securitization is a problem have a $7 trillion in mortgage -backed securities that fraud issues involving mortgage -backed securities and are coming out of this mortgage fraud settlement," she said

News

  1. New Fed Task Force Subpoenas 11 in Mortgage Fraud Probe

    Fri, 27 Jan 2012

    was created today to investigate mortgage fraud that contributed to the 2008 financial general's offices to investigate how mortgage backed securities were created selling, and valuing of residential mortgage -backed securities." Holder said

  2. GOP to Wall Street: 'Richard Cordray Sleeps with the Fishes'

    Sat, 10 Dec 2011

    and confounded by their mortgage lenders. And just this why: The late-stage mortgage boom of the mid-2000s easy money they made from mortgage fees to change course protect consumers from mortgage fraud , payday loans charging

  3. FBI Finds Gangs Expanding, Even to U.S. Military

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    trafficking, and prostitution. Gangs are also engaging in white collar crime such as counterfeiting, identity theft, and mortgage fraud , primarily due to the high profitability and much lower visibility and risk of detection and punishment than drug and

  4. San Diego Man Gets Prison For Bilking Homeowners in Massive Mortgage Fraud

    Tue, 14 Jun 2011

    homeowners lower the principal on their loans and reduce their mortgage rates to "as low as 2 percent." ABC News found that federal prosecutors in 2003 of charges connected to a mortgage fraud scheme in Baltimore. Both men received jail sentences

  5. Top 10 Pink Slip Capitals

    Thu, 2 Jun 2011

    Capitals More from Forbes: America's Fastest-Growing Cities Cities With The Most Billionaires The 10 Worst States For Mortgage Fraud Best Places To Buy a Home Right Now Cities With The Biggest Home Price Discounts

  6. Rochester and Pittsburgh offer plenty of housing bargains.

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    forbes.com/davidwhelan and blogs.forbes.com/nathanvardi. More From Forbes: Surprising Home-Energy Hogs America's Biggest And Least Gas-Guzzling Cities Cities With the Biggest Home Price Discounts The Worst States For Mortgage Fraud

  7. Iowa Attorney General Reviewing Case of Couple who Got Free Home

    Thu, 21 Apr 2011

    law. The $320,000 mortgage of Matthew and Jamie Danielson that both spouses sign a mortgage agreement. Only Matthew Danielson signed the mortgage in May 2007 in what he worse she has committed mortgage fraud against the industry in

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Videos

  1. 20/20 06/21: The (Almost) Perfect Crime

    Fri, 21 Jun 2013

    being Authorities had mailed the cross dressing dead to rights. He was arrested and charged with Grand Larceny and mortgage fraud . In another bizarre twist parking gives this rambling statement to police saying when he gave his mother CPR the night

  2. Mortgage Fraud Arrests

    Thu, 19 Jun 2008

    contributed to the system wide breakdown the FBI has arrested more than 400 people in something they call operation malicious mortgage . And today to Bear Stearns managers are facing criminal charges. ABC's Justice Department correspondent Pierre Thomas

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    has arrested more than 400 people in something they call operation malicious mortgage . And today to Bear Stearns managers are facing criminal charges. ABC's Justice Department correspondent Pierre Thomas is joining us from Washington with
  3. Webcast: Linking Floods to Global Warming, Mortgage Fraud Arrests and Beyond Strange

    Thu, 19 Jun 2008

    warming to more rain and more floods. Mortgage fraud the feds announced the first criminal prosecutions to come out of the mortgage crisis. And June 18. That's today to talk Q turning now back to the mortgage crisis in this country in a crackdown

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    House report directly links global warming to more rain and more floods. Mortgage fraud the feds announced the first criminal prosecutions to come out of the mortgage crisis. And June 18. That's today and it's what's your -- and four on Google. But we Begin with a race for
  4. Town's Boom & Bust

    Wed, 30 May 2007

    and perhaps unprecedented. Mortgage forward. It's a town called it was a mother from home mortgage product. The mother of mortgage fraud and what did they mean by appraisal the lender issued a mortgage . The pens would then allegedly

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    the team. Fannie Mae and believed it was a mother from home mortgage product. The mother of -- mortgage fraud and what did they mean by that -- The biggest -- Members of the investment group say the scheme was first mentioned
  5. The Big Lie: Real Life Norman Bates

    Fri, 8 Jun 2012

    being mad Authorities had the cross dressing crook. Dead to rights he was arrested and charged with Grand Larceny and mortgage fraud . In another bizarre twist parking gives this rambling statement to police saying when he gave his mother CPR the night

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    Dead to rights he was arrested and charged with Grand Larceny and mortgage fraud . In another bizarre twist parking gives this rambling statement to police saying when he gave his mother CPR the night she died.
  6. Pushing Reality Show Limits

    Fri, 1 Jun 2012

    Hot chicks and chairs having a good time happened to be having a good time here we'll they weren't I think our mortgage fraud . The real. We see yeah answer them some are quietly. We thought it was a problem in and people and society rolling

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  7. Fed Announces $25 Billion Foreclosure Deal

    Thu, 9 Feb 2012

    nation's five biggest mortgage lenders. To provide relief interest rates. Lower mortgage balances or provide a banks from claims. Of mortgage fraud . Certain civil claims preserves extensive its mortgage securitization activities

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    officials have announced a settlement between states and a nation's five biggest mortgage lenders. To provide relief to millions of homeowners facing foreclosure. The 25 billion dollar deal would force banks to cut interest rates. Lower mortgage balances or provide a cash payment of up to 2000 dollars. Attorney general Eric Holder says however this settlement and doesn't entirely exonerate banks from claims. Of mortgage fraud . Certain civil claims -- political servicing activities. It doesn't not. -- state and federal authorities. It's -- criminal enforcement actions. And it preserves extensive -- its mortgage securitization activities including Clinton -- focused. Residential mortgage backed securities. Group. Alder says this is the -- as joint federal local civil settlement. In the history of the nation.
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