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Posted on 08 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, Evelyn Echevarria, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, REMICs, robo signing, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Banks blow up mortgage settlement talks, despite Iowa AG Tom Miller’s begging and whimpering!!
TIME-
The five biggest mortgage servicers have cancelled a planned negotiating session with representatives of the 50 State Attorneys General in apparent protest over a federal regulator filing suit against them, a source familiar with the matter tells TIME.
The banks canceled the meeting on Tuesday afternoon in protest over the announcement last Friday that the Federal Housing Finance Agency would bring a broad case against 17 firms, including those in talks with the State AGs. The FHFA, which oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, alleges the firms violated securities law by misrepresenting the value of bundles of high-risk mortgages they sold. FHFA did not say how much the case might be worth, but outside analysts have said it could potentially produce billions of dollars in compensatory damages from the firms.
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Posted on 08 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, Evelyn Echevarria, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, REMICs, robo signing, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
TIME-
Long before the banks started evicting delinquent homeowners, Wall Street, it appears, used robo-signers to ink mortgage deals that would eventually cost investors tens of billions of dollars and in part led to the financial crisis.
According to lawsuits filed last week by the U.S.’s Federal Housing Financing Agency, one individual was used by three different banks to sign off on 36 different mortgage bond deals in 2006 alone. Many of the deals contained as many as 4,000 home loans. Yet, according to the lawsuits, the individual Evelyn Echevarria signed documents attesting to the fact that all the loans – well over 100,o00 in 2006 alone
Read more: [Curious Capitalist.blogs.time.com]
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Posted on 07 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, Jim Boswell, jpmorgan chase, Kevin Villani, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, Quanta Analytics, REMICs, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
This is a great article written by Kevin Villani who was senior vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac from 1982 to 1985.
American Banker-
In the 1980s Freddie Mac had a marketing campaign “The Gnomes Know,” touting their expertise in mortgage markets. Now the Federal Housing Finance Agency has filed a $200 billion lawsuit against 17 of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders arguing that during the subprime lending debacle of the last decade the gnomes didn’t know!
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Posted on 07 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, Jim Boswell, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, Quanta Analytics, REMICs, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Business Insider-
Last Friday the U.S. regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which has the oversight responsibility of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sued 17 large banks and financial institutions relating to losses on approximately $200 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subprime bonds.
Now, let me be clear right from the start. I am no apologist for the banks. And historically my tendency has been to support better financial regulation and even the Democratic Party through my voting preference.
However, enough is enough. At this point in time the Government and the FHFA have no right to sue the banking industry on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That is a joke.
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Read more: [BUSINESS INSIDER]
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Posted on 07 September 2011. Tags: "attorney", 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, Carl Levin, CEO, christopher spradling, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, Fed, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, hired, HSBC, investigation, Janet Tavakoli, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, litton loan services, Lloyd Blankfein, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, Reid Weingarten, REMICs, securities, securities fraud, securitization, senate banking committee, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
If William K. Black and Janet would only team up to write a book?
HuffPO-
There were many factors that contributed to our recent financial bubble: deregulation, cheap money from the Fed, failure to enforce remaining regulations, crony capitalism, hubris, speculation, leverage, and fraud among other problems. While fraud wasn’t the only issue, it was and is a significant contributor to the credit bubble. Restraining fraud is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a sound financial system. Congressional investigations in recent years have put ample evidence of fraud in the public domain.
To illustrate just one type of malicious mischief, Senator Carl Levin (D. Mich.), Chairman of a senate investigative panel, issued a memo stating that Goldman ” magnified the impact of toxic mortgages.” The Wall Street Journal reviewed data showing that a $38 million subprime-mortgage bond created in June 2006 was referenced in more than 30 debt pool causing around$280 million in losses to investors by 2008. In other words, Goldman kept repackaging, reselling or protecting (buying credit default protection on) losers. It took the wrong kind of nerve for Goldman’s CEO to say he was doing “God’s work.”
[HUFFINGTON POST]
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Posted on 06 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, REMICs, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
For Immediate Release Contact:
Corinne Russell (202) 414-6921
Stefanie Johnson (202) 414-6376
September 6, 2011
Federal Housing Finance Agency Statement on Recent Lawsuits Filed Upon
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Posted on 05 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, 50 state settlement, Ally Financial, attorney general, bank of america, bankruptcy, Barclays, Bruce h. Levitt, Case No. 08-18700-JHW, CHIEF JUDGE U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT, CitiGroup, congressman, CONTROL FRAUD, countrywide, countrywide home loans servicing, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, dinsfla, Eric Schneiderman, fannie mae, Fed, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, Frenkel, general electric, goldman sachs, Harold Kaplan, HSBC, Jerrold Nadler, John T. Kemp, jpmorgan chase, Judge JUDITH H. WIZMUR, Kemp v. Countrywide Home Loans, Lambert, lawsuits, Levitt & Slafkes, linda DeMartini, LLP, Martin Act, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, new jersey, Nomura Holding America, non mortgage-backed, note, notes, REMICs, robo signers, securities fraud, securitization, settlement, sharon mason, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, tim geithner, tom miller, william black
REUTERS-
Big U.S. banks in talks with state prosecutors to settle claims of improper mortgage practices have been offered a deal that is proposed to limit part of their legal liability, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The FT said state prosecutors have proposed a deal to limit part of the banks’ liability in return for a multibillion-dollar payment.
The talks aim to settle allegations that banks including Bank of America (BAC.N), JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), Wells Fargo (WFC.N), Citigroup (C.N) and Ally Financial (GKM.N). seized the homes of delinquent borrowers and broke state laws by employing so-called “robosigners”, workers who signed off on foreclosure documents en masse without reviewing the paperwork.
[REUTERS]
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Posted on 05 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, CONTROL FRAUD, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, REMICs, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, william black
William K. Black-
Reading the FHFA complaints against many of the world’s largest banks is a fascinating and troubling process for anyone that understands “accounting control fraud.” The FHFA, a federal regulatory agency, sued in its capacity as conservator for Fannie and Freddie. Its complaints are primarily based on fraud. The FHFA alleges that the fraud came from the top, i.e., it alleges that many of the world’s largest banks were control frauds and that they committed hundreds of thousands of fraudulent acts. The FHFA complaints emphasize that other governmental investigations have repeatedly confirmed that the defendant banks were engaged in endemic fraud. The failure of the Department of Justice to convict any senior official of a major bank, and the almost total failure to indict any senior official of a major bank has moved from scandal to farce.
The FHFA complaints are distressing, however, in their failure to explain why the frauds occurred and how an accounting control fraud works. The FHFA complaint against Countrywide is particularly disappointing because …
[BENZINGA]
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Posted on 05 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, REMICs, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Lets NOT forget both Fannie and Freddie, like most of the named banks they are suing, each are shareholders of MERS.
Again, who gave the green light to eliminate the need for assignments and to realize the greatest savings, lenders should close loans using standard security instruments containing “MOM” language back in April 26, 1999?
This was approved by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which named MERS as Original Mortgagee (MOM)!
Open Market-
“U.S. is set to sue dozen big banks over mortgages,” reads the front-page headline in today’s New York Times. The “deck” below the headline explains that that the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is “seen as arguing that lenders lacked due diligence” in the loans they made.
A more apt description would probably be that Fannie and Freddie are suing the banks for selling them the very loans the GSEs helped designed and that government mandates encourage — and are still encouraging them to make. These conflicted actions are just one more of the government’s contributions to the uncertainty that is helping to keep unemployment at 9 percent.
Strangely the author of the Times piece, Nelson Schwartz, ignores the findings of a recent blockbuster
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[OPEN MARKET]
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Posted on 02 September 2011. Tags: 17 Firms, Ally Financial, bank of america, Barclays, CitiGroup, countrywide, Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, fannie mae, federal housing finance agency, fhfa, first franklin, First Horizon, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, general electric, goldman sachs, HSBC, jpmorgan chase, lawsuits, mbs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, mortgage backed securities, Nomura Holding America, REMICs, securities fraud, securitization, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
UPDATE :
FHFA suit stops short of going nuclear, ignores the biggest flaw in securitization/REMICs – failure to properly convey the notes….instead, FHFA sez loans were xferred properly to trust, to prevent 100% taxation 4 failure 2 comply w/ IRC’s REMIC requirements. Cute…I worry that this is an attempt to fix / limit total bank exposure by getting uncontested ruling that REMIC provisions were followed…
via @Thad Bartholow
What? Why is “WELLS FARGO” not listed? Let me know when they get to “W”.
FHFA Sues 17 Firms to Recover Losses to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Washington, DC — The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), today filed lawsuits against 17 financial institutions, certain of their officers and various unaffiliated lead underwriters. The suits allege violations of federal securities laws and common law in the sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) to the Enterprises.
Complaints have been filed against the following lead defendants, in alphabetical order:
LITIGATION
Federal Housing Finance Agency
FANNIE MAE
FREDDIE MAC
The cases are Federal Housing Finance Agency v. Bank of America Corp. (BAC), 11-CV-6195; FHFA v. Barclays Bank Plc., 11-CV- 6190; FHFA v. Citigroup, 11-CV-6196; FHFA v. Credit Suisse Holdings (USA) Inc., 11-CV-6200; FHFA v. Deutsche Bank AG, 11- CV-6192; FHFA v. First Horizon National Corp., 11-CV-6193; FHFA v. Goldman, Sachs & Co., 11-CV-6198; FHFA v. HSBC North America Holdings Inc., 11-CV-6189; FHFA v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., 11-CV- 6188; FHFA v. Merrill Lynch & Co., 11-CV-6202; FHFA v. Nomura Holding America Inc., 11-CV-6201; FHFA v. SG Americas Inc., 11- CV-6203, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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