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Calling All Complaince Lawyers

Posted on April 07, 2008
I don't intend to make a practice of posting job available ads, but inasmuch this one appears to fit the potential profile of a typical reader of this blog, and that the bank whose service corporation owns the mortgage company...

A Check On Excess

Posted on April 07, 2008
In October 2006, the FDIC filed an appeal of a decision by Houston federal district court judge Lynn Hughes to sanction the FDIC for over $72 million for its conduct in filing and pursuing litigation (and financing an administrative proceeding...

Barney's Big Bailout

Posted on April 06, 2008
Last Thursday???s The Wall Street Journal had a scathing editorial entitled "Uncle Subprime." The gist of it is that Congress is aiming to make Uncle Sam the "subprime lender of last resort." In the name of preventing foreclosures, House Financial...

A Bank? Just Kidding!

Posted on April 04, 2008
I suppose that every few years, the Texas Department of Banking has to remind businesses that you can't claim to be a "bank" unless, you know, YOU ARE A BANK! State regulators have taken steps to sanction a Houston firm...

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A Blueprint For A Structure That Will Never Be Built

Posted on April 03, 2008
On Monday, David Milstead, the Finance Editor of The Rocky Mountain News, circulated a list of questions to an assortment of heavy hitters in financial services in Colorado (although he appears to have left off a number of others), about...

Crime and Punishment

Posted on April 02, 2008
When we last looked in on Taiwan Lee a couple of years ago, he had "vanished" while out on parole, then resurfaced after committing multiple instances of mortgage fraud in Colorado. He was caught, and became a poster child for...

Was It Something I Said?

Posted on April 01, 2008
Last Wednesday we called for Alphonso Jackson to resign, and just like clockwork, today he fell on his sword (actually, his dagger, but it still hurt). Some nitwits think that Senators Dodd and Murray had something to do with it,...

Six Simple Rules

Posted on March 28, 2008
Banking Law Prof gives everyone a hit list of "takeaways" from the subprime mortgage mess: 1. There???s blame enough to go around. 2. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 3. If it sounds too...

Six Simple Rules

Posted on March 27, 2008
Banking Law Prof gives everyone a hit list of "takeaways" from the subprime mortgage mess: 1. There?s blame enough to go around. 2. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 3. If it sounds too...

HUD Punts DAP Denial

Posted on March 27, 2008
I know it's spring, but today I broke out the hockey skates, rang up The Devil, and went ice skating in Hell. I also agreed with the Editorial Board of The New York Times. Alphonso Jackson, the Secretary of Housing...

HUD Punts DAP Denial

Posted on March 26, 2008
I know it's spring, but today I broke out the hockey skates, rang up The Devil, and went ice skating in Hell. I also agreed with the Editorial Board of The New York Times. Alphonso Jackson, the Secretary of Housing...

The Barbie Bandits Get Benched

Posted on March 26, 2008
Crime may not pay, but it certainly hurts a lot less for criminals who are tall, blond, female, young and cute. Recently, bank robbers in Dallas have been having "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" come down, on their heads. Dallas bank robber...

The Barbie Bandits Get Benched

Posted on March 25, 2008
Crime may not pay, but it certainly hurts a lot less for criminals who are tall, blond, female, young and cute. Recently, bank robbers in Dallas have been having "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" come down, on their heads. Dallas bank robber...

Separating Some Of The Chaff From The Rest Of The Chaff

Posted on March 25, 2008
Colorado's new mortgage broker licensing law has already kept some questionable characters out of a profession where a good man (or woman) is sometimes hard to find. According to a recent story in The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's Director of...

Separating Some Of The Chaff From The Rest Of The Chaff

Posted on March 24, 2008
Colorado's new mortgage broker licensing law has already kept some questionable characters out of a profession where a good man (or woman) is sometimes hard to find. According to a recent story in The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's Director of...

Regulatory Flexibility

Posted on March 24, 2008
Rooting around, searching for something totally unrelated, I recently unearthed a recent Office of Thrift Supervision Approval of Rebuttal of Control granted to Legg Mason Inc. and certain related entities in January. The rebuttal was filed in connection with the...

Regulatory Flexibility

Posted on March 23, 2008
Rooting around, searching for something totally unrelated, I recently unearthed a recent Office of Thrift Supervision Approval of Rebuttal of Control granted to Legg Mason Inc. and certain related entities in January. The rebuttal was filed in connection with the...

Moral Hazards

Posted on March 21, 2008
A colleague and friend wrote to me recently about what I thought of this article in last Sunday's The New York Times by Gretchen Morgenson, that starts off with a typical focus for The Grey Lady: the venality of big...

Moral Hazards

Posted on March 20, 2008
A colleague and friend wrote to me recently about what I thought of this article in last Sunday's The New York Times by Gretchen Morgenson, that starts off with a typical focus for The Grey Lady: the venality of big...

Bad Legislation Just Keeps On Coming

Posted on March 18, 2008
Although a final condemnation will have to await the drafting of a bill that's in process in Colorado, a preliminary press report justifies a hearty shout of "WTF"? With foreclosure rates a problem in Colorado and throughout the country, Rep....

Wamu Wins Big

Posted on March 17, 2008
Buried in the back pages of the trade press last Friday, while the meltdown of Bear Stearns and the usual Congressional posturing in advance of its "Spring Break" occupied the attention of reporters inside and outside the banking biz, was...

All Clear

Posted on March 12, 2008
On the road again, for the rest of this week. Readers are safe from further bloviations until next Monday. In the meantime, watch Jim Cramer get (as today's NewsBusters phrased it) verklempt over Eliot Spitzer on this morning's Today Show....

Short Sellers Got No Reason To Live

Posted on March 11, 2008
In South Florida, the pickings are slim for those who push short sales. They may be trolling, but the banks aren't biting. Local real estate professionals say there is growing interest in the residential short sale, but only grudging acceptance...

Unsafe At Any Price

Posted on March 10, 2008
Eliot ("Mess") Spitzer: He's a punk. He's a bully. He's a liar. He's a hypocrite. Now, he's also just another busted "John." I guess we could sing it Steve Miller's way: I'm a joker I'm a smoker I'm a midnight...

More Accurate Identity Theft Reporting By Banks: The Opening Salvo

Posted on March 09, 2008
Last year, Chris Hoofnagle, Senior Staff Attorney, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and Senior Fellow, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, published an article in the Harvard Journal of Law...

The Coach Is Busy, So He's Showing A Film

Posted on March 04, 2008
While unsuspecting subprime borrowers are being swept away by a tsunami of foreclosures, yours falsely is about to be swept away by a tsunami of contracts. Therefore, in lieu of actual blogging, I'll merely post a couple of videos worth...

Another BSA Victim

Posted on March 03, 2008
More evidence of the unrelenting brain damage being inflicted upon commercial banks by federal bank regulators over Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Act compliance failures surfaced last week in press reports that the California national bank subsidiary of Dutch commercial banking...

Dirty Harry Misfires

Posted on March 02, 2008
After guaranteeing last week that he could invoke cloture to prevent Senate Republicans from putting the brakes on his rush to enact bankruptcy reform proposals, Senate Majority Leader "Dirty Harry" Reid ended up with not the 60 votes he said he had in his pocket, but a scant 48...

HUD Stubs Toe On RESPA

Posted on February 28, 2008
Yeah, this is old news, but we've been busy and are just getting around to reading old blog posts and newsletters. We never promised you up-to-date news, just unvarnished snark. We've been yammering about violations of RESPA's anti-kickback and anti-referral prohibitions since this blog first inflicted itself upon an unsuspecting public...

Dirty Harry Tells Prez: "Make My Day!"

Posted on February 27, 2008
We all expected a Senate vote yesterday on Little Dickie Durban's Bankruptcy Reform-of-the-Reform Bill, that would allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite residential mortgage loans. Unfortunately, the Senate chose to take up a much less controversial matter: scaling back military operations in Iraq...

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