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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NATION’S HOUSING Civil rights complaint targets Wall Street rating firms Moody’s and Fitch’s high ratings of subprime mortgage bonds disproportionately harmed black and Latino home buyers, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges. By Kenneth R. Harney November 30, 2008 In what is apparently the first legal action of its kind, an association of community-based organizations […]

Tags: Department of Housing and Urban Development, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, Moody's Investor Service
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Taking the entire Mortgage Meltdown process as a single transaction starting with the origination of the loan to the borrower and ending with the sale of an asset backed security to an investor, a pattern of deception and confusion emerges — providing the borrower with an arsenal of offensive and defensive strategies to avoid foreclosure, […]

Tags: appraisals, FDIC, Fitch ratings, foeclosure defense, Lender Liability, Moody's Investor Service, mortgage meltdown, rating agencies, single transaction, Standard & Poor's
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