U.S. Attorney Continues to Prosecute Despite Settlements

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Editor’s Note: Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is unfazed by the tangle of “settlements” and will not let up on prosecuting Bank of America for fraud. He gets it and is methodically working his way through the maze set up by the mega banks.

BofA settled a civil claim that it had lied when they “sold” mortgages advertised as meeting government standards. We all know by now that the loans “lacked documentation and underwriting.” But what is still to come out is WHY they lacked documentation and WHY the loans lacked underwriting.

The documentation was absent simply to hide the fact that the bank was pretending to have ownership or an insurable interest in the loans and mortgage bonds. The true transaction was between the investor/lenders and the homeowner/borrowers. BofA stole or misused the identities of both the lender and the borrowers so that it could sell the loans many times under guise of exotic derivative instruments called mortgage backed bonds.

If fully documented, the lender would have shown up as the investors, which is as it should have been. BofA never put up a dime for the funding or acquisition of any of the loans. Its claim of ownership and an insurable interest was a blatant lie, inasmuch as they actually had no risk of loss, which is why there was no underwriting standards applied either.

I would suggest you track the pleadings of this U.S. Attorney and pick up some pointers along the way. He is definitely on the right track. As for now, the focus is on the bad mortgage bonds, bad loans, and lack of documentation up at the lender level.

Once that veil is penetrated it will be revealed that the borrower was defrauded using the same misdirected documentation using appraisal fraud as the principal leverage point.

But the real stuff is going to hit the fan as more and more people realize that this standard practice in the industry allegedly to “protect” the investors, invalidated the chain of title and there has been no effort to correct the problem. When it is revealed that the investors were cheated out of their money by a use of proceeds that crosses the borders of fraud, and that the terms of the bonds were never intended to be satisfied, just as the terms of the loan were never meant to be satisfied or secured, then we will have justice peeking its head out over the mess.

In the end, legally, there will be privity or a relationship only between the investor/lenders and the borrowers and that there transaction was supposed to be documented and recorded. Instead the banks documented and recorded a different transaction in which the intermediaries looked like the principals and were therefore able to do “proprietary trading” in which they took investor money from one pocket and put it into another.

That is what opened the door to huge “profits” (actually theft proceeds) on the way up and on the way down. These banks are now buying the same houses from themselves (using another affiliate entity) and then reporting the results to the investors so they can write off the loss. They are going to be the largest landowners in history as a result of this PONZI scheme.

The investors were duped into thinking that all the intermediary entities were being used to protect them from liability from claims of deceptive and predatory lending practices. In actuality the investors were already protected because their agents committed intentional acts of malfeasance and crimes that were specifically prohibited in the documents and other representations the investors received.

Just like the Too Big to Fail Myth, the investors are operating under the myth that if they assert themselves as lenders, they are going to get sued. That too is untrue. If they assert themselves as lenders, then they are going to show proof of payment, something the megabanks can’t do because they used investor money instead of their own.

If the investors assert themselves as lenders they will see that money is missing from the investment pools and that in fact the investment pools were never funded at all. They will realize that they have a legitimate claim for repayment of loans, and a legitimate claim for civil or criminal theft against the banks who intentionally diverted the documentation and the money from the investors and from the borrowers.

That will leave the investors and borrowers with (1) an obligation that is mostly undocumented and (2) unsecured. But the borrowers are more than happy to allow a mortgage if it reflects fair market value. This is what will give the investors far more than the current process in which the banks have a stranglehold on the mortgage modification process (for mortgages that are invalid from the start).

If you pierce through the veil of PR and utter nonsense flowing out of the banks and their planted articles in every periodical around the country, you will find your lender and you will find out the balance due because both of you (homeowner and investor) are going to want to know what happened to all the insurance money, credit default swaps and Federal bailouts that were promised, paid, but not delivered.

Because the mega banks were mere intermediaries pretending to be lenders the entire current scenario is going to turn upside down. Ultimately, the insurance, CDS and bailouts were in fact bailouts of the homeowners and investors. When they are applied correctly according to common sense and the contracts that were executed, practically none of the mortgages will have the balance demanded by the intermediary banks who claim but do not own the mortgages or rights to foreclose. Thus practically no foreclosure was correct by any standard, no credit bid was valid at auction, and no eviction was legal.

As these facts are revealed and accepted by a critical mass of people, the Too Big to Fail Myth will be put to the test. The nonexistent assets on their balance sheets will be reduced to zero. What will really happen is simply that the mega banks will collapse inward and the thousands of other banks that are unfairly under the thumb of the bank oligarchy will be able to pick up the pieces that are left and return to normal banking, with normal profits and normal bonuses.

Allowing the mega bank to retain the money they stole is like throwing a steak to a dog. Now that they have a taste of unlawful profits driving their profitability upward, they will only want more. Our job is to make sure they don’t get it. The Obama administration was surprised by the quick recovery by the banks. The truth, as it will be revealed in the coming months and years, is that there was no bank recovery because there were no bank losses. THAT is why the banks grew while the rest of the economy tanked.

Theoretically it is impossible for the bank profits to go up while the stock market and the economy is going down the drain. Their profits are supposed to come from being intermediaries in commerce, not principals.

Thus the higher the commercial activity, the better it is for the banks. But here, the relationship was twisted. The banks sucked the money out of the economy in “off balance sheet” transactions, secreted the money around the world, and are now able to report higher and higher profits every year simply because that is the way that they can repatriate their ill-gotten gains. By doing that they drive up the apparent value of their stocks and their stockholders are happy. What the stockholders do not realize is that this is a powder keg that will, at some point, implode. Yes, Warren Buffet is wrong.

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Despite a settlement with an alleged victim, U.S. District Attorney Preet Bharara will continue to prosecute Bank of America for selling allegedly fraudulent loans to Fannie Mae and other government-sponsored enterprises, his office told the Charlotte Business Journal.

Bharara, U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, charged BofA with fraud in a $1 billion federal lawsuit in October. He alleged in court documents that BofA had sold government agencies such as Fannie Mae billions of dollars in mortgages that were advertised as meeting government standards. However, the suit contends the loans actually lacked proper documentation and underwriting.

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