Federal and state officials aim to wrap up this week a multibillion-dollar agreement with five major banks to settle probes of alleged foreclosure abuses...Read More
Office-building construction is in the midst of a severe drought. This means higher rents may be on the horizon in some cities, if history is any guide...Read More
This 2,286-square-foot house, built around 1925, has no garage but does boast original details like pecky cypress ceilings, handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and Cuban tile floors...Read More
Romney stands by his position that the government should stay out of the national housing mess and let the market "hit the bottom." But in hard-hit North Las Vegas, Nev., the implications are clear...Read More
Ally Financial, the U.S. government-owned auto lender, swung to a $250 million net loss in the fourth quarter after taking a charge for regulatory penalties stemming from foreclosure matters...Read More
Russ Winter of Winter (Economic and Market) Watch and the Wall Street Examiner's Lee Adler discuss employment and economic maladjustments caused by the tax code stimulus programs, leading to booms followed by busts. Does it matter in the face of a coming liquidity bomb? And Russ thinks that all signs point to war with Iran. In the intermediate term...Read More
``A trustee seeking to distribute customer securities overseen by bankrupt MF Global Inc. said Monday that they have traced a majority of the cash that disappeared from the commodities broker. "The trustee's investigators have now traced a majority of the cash transactions, totaling more than $105 billion, made in and out of MF Global Inc. in the l...Read More
``The mainstream view uniting the entire political spectrum is that all our financial problems can be fixed by what amounts to top-down, centralized policy tweaks and regulation: for example, tweaking policies to "tax the rich," limit the size of "too big to fail" financial institutions, regulate credit default swaps, lower the cost of healthcare (...Read More
"Rep. Barney Frank and two other House Financial Services Committee Democrats on Monday pressed Edward DeMarco, the regulator of seized housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write-down the principal on mortgages of underwater homes....Read More
"The White House has recently promised major steps to boost the housing market and help struggling homeowners, but bruising fights with Congress loom over major pieces of the plan....Read More
``as though they were upholstering polyester chairs from the 1960s with Martha Stewart fabric, urban planners and community activists are trying to spruce up and rethink the uses of many of the artifacts. Schools, medical clinics, call centers, government offices and even churches are now standard tenants in malls. By hanging a curtain to hide the ...Read More
"Last Friday the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to 8.3 percent. This good news is a mirage. It is due to faulty seasonal adjustments and to the BLS birth/death model. In a prolonged downturn, seasonal adjustments and the birth/death model...Read More
"Not only was Obama's appointment of Richard Cordray to the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional, but the newly minted federal leviathan itself is in direct violation of Constitution, specifically the Tenth Amendment....Read More
"The biggest remaining holdout, California, has returned to the negotiating table after a four-month absence, a change of heart that could increase the pot for mortgage relief nationwide to $25 billion from $19 billion....Read More
"New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued banking's Big Three -- J.P. Morgan Chase , Bank of America and Wells Fargo -- on Friday over their use of an electronic mortgage database that played a key role in financing the nation's historic housing bubble....Read More
Michael Hudalla, Mendota Heights, Minnesota, was sentenced by a Hennepin County District Court Judge to 75 months in prison on two counts of racketeering in a major mortgage fraud case.
Ivania Filgueiras, 40, Miami, Florida; Jose Armando Alvarado, 62, Miami; Maria C. Alvarado, 62, Miami; Reyna Josefina Orts, 57, Miami; Alberto Morejon, 25, Miami; and Carlos Serrano, 56, Hialeah, Florida, have been charged for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in appro...Read More
Quddusa Lynette Anderson, 38, Patton, California, who allegedly to have operated a "cash for keys" scam in Rancho Cucamonga, California, has been charged with Burglary, Forgery and Grand Theft.
Rodney Lavann Giles, 45, DeSoto, Texas, has been found guilty by a jury in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved homes in the Eastern District of Texas.
Kareem Serageldin, David Higgs, and Salmaan Siddiqui, respectively, Credit Suisse Directors, have been charged with fraudulently inflating the prices of asset-backed bonds which comprised subprime residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) and commercial mortgage backed securities (“CMBS”) in Credit Su...Read More
Chris Wayne Duncan, 43, and Robin Ann Duncan, 37, Newport Beach, California, were convicted and sentenced for conspiring to illegally occupy a home as "squatters" by locating residences that were vacant and in foreclosure.
James D. Levitt, 66, Rhode Island, a former attorney, pled guilty in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island, to three counts of bank fraud and two counts of filing false tax returns for his role in a million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
Lender Processing Services, Inc., a company which provides integrated technology, data, and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries, responded to the civil complaint filed by the Nevada Attorney General against the company in December 2011, by filing a Motion to Dismiss.
Gerald James Greenfield, 66, Bloomington, Minnesota, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in connection with his participation in a $2.5-million mortgage fraud scheme that involved the sale of condominiums in the Sexton Lofts building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Andrey Kim, 28, Sacramento, California, and Sultanmurod Rashidov, 29, Brooklyn, New York, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $180,000 to lenders.
This map shows the location and intensity of precipitation in your area. The color of the precipitation corresponds to the rate at which it is falling. This map is updated every 15 minutes...Read More