Mortgage Industry

Mortgage Fraud: An Industry That Won’t Quit

NEW YORK (Source: MarketWatch) — Through all the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, at least one industry continues to thrive.


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Mortgage ‘Robo-Signing’ Still Goes On

(Source: Daily Herald) – Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led to a nationwide halt [...]


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Lawmakers Call For Hearings On Robo-Signing

NEW YORK (Source: MICHELLE CONLIN, AP Business Writers, PALLAVI GOGOI, AP Business Writers) — Lawmakers and enforcement agencies called for hearings and further investigation Tuesday after learning that the illegal practice known as robo-signing has continued in the mortgage industry.


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Mortgage ‘Robo-Signing’ Goes On

(Source: AP Associated press By MICHELLE CONLIN) – Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led [...]


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Time for Action on Freddie and Fannie

(Source: New York Times By AGNES T. CRANE, GEORGE HAY and PETER THAL LARSE) – A year after passage of the Dodd-Frank act, the $10.5 trillion American mortgage market remains in limbo. One big reason is that the law scarcely [...]


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Mortgage Industry ‘Didn’t Think Borrowers Were Worth Helping’

(Source: Pro Publica by Lois Beckett) – Outgoing Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairwoman Sheila C. Bair’s revealing exit interview by the New York Times’ Joe Nocera has generated plenty of buzz. But while the interview provided a comprehensive look at [...]


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AP Exclusive: Mortgage ‘Robo-Signing’ Goes On

(Source: Michelle Conlin and Pallavi Gogoi, AP Business Writers) – Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices [...]


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Mortgage Executive Receives 30-Year Sentence

(Source: Dealb%%k By BEN PROTESS) – A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Lee B. Farkas, a former mortgage industry executive accused of masterminding one of the largest bank fraud schemes in history, to 30 years in prison.


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Goldman Sells Mortgage Servicing Unit to Ocwen

(Source: New York Times By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED) – Goldman Sachs has agreed to sell its Litton Loan Servicing unit to the Ocwen Financial Corporation for about $263.7 million, ending its ties to an industry steeped in controversy.


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Judge Blocks Oregon Foreclosure, Sharply Criticizes Mortgage Industry’s Practices and MERS

(Source: By  Brent Hunsberger, The Oregonian  The Oregonian) – The foreclosure fight in Oregon jumped to a new level this week after a federal judge in Medford rebuked the industry’s sloppy practices in blocking the seizure of a Jacksonville home, [...]


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