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Could IRS Enforcement of REMICs Bring Wall Street Into Line? Yes but they won't do it. Investors and homeowners continue to suffer as victims of fraud.

The most obvious places to look for correction in the illegal conspiracies masquerading as securitization of residential debt were the IRS , the SEC, the FDIC and the FTC and probably later the CFPB. Qui tam (whistleblower) actions were regularly dismissed because the agency that lost money due to false claims rejected the notion that …

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Bank of America to Pay $108 Million in Countrywide Case

GET LOAN SPECIFIC RECORDS PROPERTY SEARCH AND SECURITIZATION SUMMARY FTC v Countrywide Home Loans Incand BAC Home Loans ServicingConsent Judgment Order 20100607 Editor’s Comment: This “tip of the iceberg”  is important for a number of reasons. You should be alerted to the fact that this was an industry-wide practice. The fees tacked on illegally during …

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Regulation and Prosecution on Wall Street

In my opinion, the growing anger at Wall Street is giving Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon another chance at misdirection. They are using the current popular angst to steer the debate into whether derivatives and synthetic CDOs should be banned. In the end they will win that debate, and they should win it. What they …

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Obama Considers Ban on Foreclosures

the obligation created when the debtor entered the transaction may well be satisfied in whole or in part by the U.S. Taxpayer, insurers, or counterparties in credit default swaps. Wall Street attempts to frame the argument as giving a free house to the unworthy homeowner. The TRUE argument is what to do with all the …

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You Are Not the Bad Guy

NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! THE PHONE RINGS. YOUR NERVES ARE JANGLED. YOU KNOW YOU ARE “LATE” IN YOUR PAYMENTS. PROBABLY ANOTHER COLLECTION CALL. FEAR COURSES THROUGH YOUR VEINS LIKE ACID TOGETHER WITH A RISING TIDE OF EMBARRASSMENT. SO HERE IS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT. First of all if you look up …

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Beware of Credit Repair Firms: But Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Most of the credit repair, TILA audit, Loan mod etc firms are incompetent, perhaps dishonest, and definitely misleading. BUT SOME ARE ON THE LEVEL. CHECK IT OUT. GET REFERENCES — REAL REFERENCES. FTC Sues “Credit Repair” Firms for Misleading Consumers By Craig Andresen, Attorney at Law on Nov 15, 2008 in Credit, Bankruptcy, and Society, …

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