Mortgage fraud case enters eighth year https://livinglies.me/wp-admin/post-new.php Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist Monday, August 29, 2016 4:32pm Lee Bentley Farkas, former head of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, is serving a 30-year jail term for fraud. [Marion County Sheriff’s Office file photo] In a Miami courtroom last Friday, defendant PwC settled a $5.5 billion lawsuit halfway …
White Collar Watch By PETER J. HENNING AUG. 29, 2016 Photo In 2011, Robert Khuzami of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against top executives from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Credit Win Mcnamee/Getty Images One source of great frustration from the financial crisis has been the dearth of cases against individuals over …
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/super-court?utm_term=.dcLRxkdWZ#.hnZ8QB0r6 A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment. Part one of a BuzzFeed News investigation. Chris Hamby BuzzFeed News Reporter Imagine a private, global super court that empowers corporations to bend countries to their will. Say a nation tries to prosecute …
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2016/08/28/michigan-sets-parole-linda-green-robo-signer/89525028/ By Brian O’Conner The only person jailed in connection with a foreclosure forgery scandal that swept through Michigan and the rest of the country after the collapse of the housing bubble spends her days confined to the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Pittsfield Township. But not for long. Sentenced in May 2013 to …
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