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Sen. Scott Brown asks for criminal investigation of GSEs

Sen. Scott Brown believes the civil lawsuit filed by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) a couple days ago against ex-CEOs of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, fails to achieve justice and accountability for the American. He is trying to push the Justice Department and the SEC to open immediately criminal investigations into Freddie and [...]

Obama signs for FHA loan limit extension

President Obama gave green light to a government spending bill yesterday morning which reinstalled higher conforming loan limits for the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) through the end of 2013. This means that starting yesterday, FHA can ensure loans up to $729,750 from $625,500 in the most expensive neighborhoods. An earlier proposed amendment to the bill [...]

Bailed out lenders increased their risk level

According to a recent report conducted by the Michigan Ross School of Business banks that received federal funding from the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP, have since increased their risk level with about 10%. Professors Ran Duchin and Denis Sosyura signed the report, after studying risk among banks receiving TARP funds and banks that [...]

JP Morgan Chase denies an imminent AG settlement

JPMorgan Chase announced during its third-quarter earnings call that the news of imminent AG settlement is not real. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase CEO said the settlement talks are on hold because of the many varying demands of each of the “50” state attorneys general, a couple of which have already pulled out of the negotiations, [...]

Failed Georgia bank executives face a lawsuit filed by FDIC

Executives of the former Alpha Bank & Trust from Georgia will have stressful days ahead, as they have to explain in court to questions regarding their decisions. The FDIC filed a lawsuit against 11 of the executives in order to recover at least $24 million of the $215 million damage that cost the failure of [...]

Iowa AG pushes toward servicer settlement negotiations

The number of attorneys general leaving the settlement is growing day by day, but this doesn’t seem to bother Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General, who said he would forge ahead with the mortgage servicer settlement talks. After New York Attorney General was kicked out by Miller, now California AG Kamala Harris showed no interest in [...]

Bank of New York Mellon says it has no fiduciary duty to MBS investors

When Eric Schneiderman, New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Bank of New York Mellon a couple months ago, he asserted that the Countrywide mortgage-backed securitization trustee had breached its duty to MBS investors As trustee, BNYM owed and owes a fiduciary duty of undivided loyalty,” said the AG’s suit, which was filed as [...]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launches fourth round of mortgage disclosure form testing

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or CFPB collects feedback about sample mortgage disclosure forms to help the agency construct standard uniform lending documents for the industry. The fourth round of testing is part of CFPB’s “Know Before You Owe” campaign. The agency posted identical mortgage forms online this week with different loan products printed on [...]

Washington Supreme Court will determine whether MERS foreclosures are legal or not

Washington state’s Supreme Court will determine whether thousands of pending foreclosures can proceed out of court or not. MERS was created by the nation’s big lenders such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, bank of America and others in 1995 to get around cumbersome laws that required paperwork and the involvement of county clerks when a [...]

$8.5 billion MBS settlement blocked by investors

It looks like not only Schneiderman had the eye for suspicious settlement between The Bank of New York Mellon and Bank of America. Now investors in soured Countrywide MBSs used a legal trap Friday to stop the same settlement which Schneiderman tried to block. The plaintiff in the case, Walnut Place, represents investors in Countrywide [...]