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Mortgage fraud. Mortgage fraud refers to an intentional misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission of information relied upon by an underwriter or lender to fund, purchase, or insure a loan secured by real property. Criminal offenses may be prosecuted in either federal or state court, and are typically charged under wire fraud, bank fraud ...
Great Recession. The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. [1] [2] The crisis led to a severe economic recession, with millions of people losing their jobs and many businesses going bankrupt.
Taylor, Bean & Whitaker was a top-10 wholesale mortgage lending firm in the United States, the fifth-largest issuer of Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae) securities. Their slogan was "Perfecting the Art of Mortgage Lending". On August 5, 2009, following a raid by the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset ...
Photo by Brian Negin. The issue of whether mortgage originators committed systematic fraud during the crisis has been settled once and for all. Earlier today, a jury concluded that Countrywide ...
Foreclosure settlement. The nation's largest mortgage companies are operating on the assumption that they will have to pay as much as $20 billion to resolve claims of widespread foreclosure abuse ...
“Bank of America violated a federal law that thousands of mortgage lenders have routinely followed for decades,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said
The 2010 United States foreclosure crisis, sometimes referred to as Foreclosure-gate or Foreclosuregate, [1] [2] refers to a widespread epidemic of improper foreclosures initiated by large banks and other lenders. The foreclosure crisis was extensively covered by news outlets beginning in October 2010, and several large banks—including Bank ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM. Countrywide's Mortgage Document Errors May Doom Bank of America. Testimony in a New Jersey foreclosure case decided last week may spell big trouble for Bank of ...