The Advocate- A majority of Louisiana’s district court clerks want a federal judge in Baton Rouge to help them end banking practices they allege have

Credit Slips- How is one to reconcile the civil fraud allegations in the US's suit against Countrywide for defrauding the GSEs with the Department of

I. INTRODUCTION A bankruptcy trustee is supposed to maximize debtor assets for the benefit of unsecured creditors. Often this task is achieved at the expense

You can go directly to WIRED to search the candidates... Ask politicians whether campaign contributions influence their decisions, and they’ll tell you certainly not. Ask

Huffington Post said, Hurricane Sandy aka "Frankenstorm" will be a Historic mega-storm that will be "long-lasting event" for the U.S. So can we please have

The bank says the customers paid unnecessary fees for their loans. If customers cash the checks, they can't later sue Wells Fargo. LA TIMES- Thousands

by Wendy Lathrop, LS, CFM - American Surveyor In all likelihood, title searches and your current record research are turning up more mentions of Mortgage

MISMO stands for Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization. It develops and maintains residential and commercial property standards. National Mortgage Professional Magazine - The Mortgage Industry

Perhaps the oddest revelation is that BOA, Freddie and Fannie are business partners that own and used MERS to originate the loans. Am I the

American Banker- Lawsuits against banks are flying, the presidential candidates are promising action – yet none of it will solve the lingering financial mess. So

WE DO NOT TRUST YOU! Put them on minimum wage and see how fast they'll clean up their s*it. Bloomberg- The U.S. Congress is on

HuffPO- Wells Fargo is once again at the center of controversy with help from the California Orange County Sheriff's Department. You may have read Martin

UPDATE: Neil Barofsky said "I have nothing to do with the $43t law suit against the banks and the quotes attributed to me are false.

What happens to homeowners... remains to be seen. But seeing he backs other banks, not much. Reuters- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) won a

NJ Today- The full state Senate approved a pair of bills sponsored by Senator Raymond J. Lesniak yesterday which are aimed at addressing New Jersey’s

“It’s time people understand why – and how – Wall Street always wins,” Connaughton writes at the outset of his book. Politico- He is harshly

NYT- If only there were mulligans on ill-advised Wall Street takeovers. When Bank of America bought Countrywide Financial, the subprime lending specialist, it initially paid