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HAMPs False Promises: Administration Admits That So Far, Its a Failed Program
The $75 billion HAMP program designed to induce mortgage lenders to modify home mortgages owed by financially troubled homeowners isn’t working, and now the Obama administration has admitted as much...

Home Loan Modification Program Begins to Help
According to a New York Times article, the Obama administration?s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) is on the road to achieving its goal of modifying 500,000 home loans by November...

HAMP: Is It Helping
By Alan White Today the Administration released its first report on the number of homeowners helped by its Home Affordable mortgage modification program (HAMP). While the numbers of trial modifications in the first three months of the program (250,000) may...

Obama Administration doubles down on HAMP
The Administration has sent a clear signal that its primary foreclosure mitigation initiative, the Home Affordable modification program (HAMP), is not working. In a press release today, Treasury and HUD announced new efforts to convert three-month trial modifications to permanent...

Press Release on the HAMP Program
The United States Treasury Deptartment published a press release in March of this year that details the new Home Affordable Modification Program (”HAMP”).  I have written many blog posts with respect to this program and have personally been able to use this program to help many clients...

HAMP Update
By Alan White Trial mortgage modifications under the Home Affordable mortgage program (HAMP) have reached about the same levels that servicers were achieving voluntarily in the first quarter of 2009...

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Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.

SIGG Admits to Trace BPA in Metal Water Bottles
SIGG Admits to BPA in Metal Water Bottles

False Claims
Attorney Robert Arledge ordered to pay $5.8 million after making false Fen Phen settlement claims.

Bush Administration
class action settlement ensures Medicaid beneficiaries can continue to purchase prescription drugs at minimum cost when they become eligible for Medicare.

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Treasurer Embezzlement
Mary Lou Puccio repays Warren Cheer and Pom Program $26,000 after stealing money.