by Moe Bedard
In marketing, advertising and testimony before Congress, Countrywide Home Loans has said repeatedly that it is working hard to modify the mortgages of financially strapped borrowers caught up in the subprime meltdown. But in a New Hampshire court, attorneys for the lending giant are singing a different tune, describing such assurances as “mere commercial puffery.”
“It’s breathtaking,” attorney Mary Frances Stewart of Concord, N.H., said of Countrywide’s response to the lawsuit she and co-counsel Krista Atwater filed in Merrimack County Superior Court. In its response, “Countrywide is saying, ‘We don’t have any obligation or even necessarily the intention of actually modifying these loans,’ and yet they’re representing that they do.”
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by Moe Bedard
The facts are the facts. I am not going to add much commentary to this damaging blog post because it is what it is. All I know is Angelo (Ex-Countrywide CEO) is gonna have some explaining to do to Mr. Lewis (CEO for Now of B of A) over some egg nog and whiskey.
Here are links, facts, data and concrete [...]
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