SERVICES YOU NEED “According to testimony last week, from January 2006 to June 2007, Clayton reviewed 911,000 loans for 23 investment or commercial banks, including Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley.” It’s like slapping some paint on a 30 year old Chevy and selling it as a Rolls […]

Tags: appraisals, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, fraud, fraud gross negligence, GRETCHEN MORGENSON, gross negligence, ratings
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EDITOR’S NOTE: I don’t know Brad Miller bradmiller.house.gov but I’m sending him a donation. Gretchen Morgenson says he’s worth getting to know and I am going to do just that. He’s running for re-election in North Carolina, and except for a scant few other members of Congress, he is one of the few that has actually […]

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The model concluded that roughly one-third of the loans were for amounts that were 105 percent or more of the underlying property’s value. Roughly 5.5 percent of the loans in the pools had appraisals that were lower than they should have been. In one pool with 3,543 loans, for example, the CoreLogic model had enough […]

Tags: CoreLogic, Credit Suisse, David J. Grais, DEUTSCHE BANK, GRETCHEN MORGENSON, HERS, Home Loan Banks, investment banks, investors, Merrill Lynch, mortgage securities, San Francisco Home Loan Bank, Seattle Home Loan Bank, UBS, VP4
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“The court certainly agrees that ‘mistakes happen,’ ” Judge Bohm wrote. “However, when mistakes happen not once, not twice, but repeatedly, and when actions are not taken to correct these mistakes within a reasonable period of time, the failure to right the wrong — particularly when the basis for the problem is a months-long violation of […]

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Investment banks bundled mortgage loans into securities and then often rebundled those securities one or two more times. Those securities were given high ratings and sold to investors, who have since lost billions of dollars on them. Editor’s Note: The significance of this report cannot be overstated. Not only did the investment bankers LOOK for […]

Tags: accounting, Bank of America, BofA, bundled, BURDEN OF PROOF, Charles Koppa, Citigroup Inc, Countrywide Home Loans, damages, Deutsche Bank AG, Fitch ratings, Goldman Sachs, GRETCHEN MORGENSON, guaranteed to fail, injunction, JP Morgan Chase, Louise Story, Merrill Lynch, modifications, Moody's Investor Service, prima facie case, rebundled, securitization, short sales, Standard & Poor's, Substitute Trustee, The New York Times, yield spread premium
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Editor’s Note: Now the truth as reported here two years ago. There were no losses. They were making money hand over fist. And this article focuses only on a single topic — some of the credit default swaps — those that Goldman had bought in its own name, leaving out all the other swaps bought […]

Tags: ABACUS 2007-AC1, bonds, borowers, check-kiting, David A. Viniar, default, Eric Kolchinsky, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation., financial crisis, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Fitch, fraud, Gary D. Cohn, Goldman Sachs, GRETCHEN MORGENSON, HERS, John A. Paulson, Kolchinsky, lenders, lending, Lloyd C. Blankfein, losses, Louise Story, Moody's, mortgage backed securities, Office of Thrift Supervision, operating agreement, OWNERSHIP of the loan pool, Ponzi, Securities and Exchange Commission, selling forward, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, SEWELL CHAN, sham, shares, special purpose vehicle, Standard & Poor's, swaps, trust, trustee, Washington Mutual
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