Feds Open Criminal Investigation Into Bank Foreclosure Fraud

The Daily Bail
October 20, 2010

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Foreclosure law is normally handled by states, so this feels like political posturing set to coincide with the end of the moratorium. Breaking story from the Washington Post plus the latest stories on foreclosure-gate from around the web.

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Federal law enforcement officials are investigating possible criminal violations in connection with the national foreclosure crisis, examining whether financial firms broke federal laws when they filed fraudulent court documents to seize people’s homes, according to people familiar with the matter. 

The Obama administration’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force is in the early stages of an investigation into whether banks and other companies that submitted flawed paperwork in state foreclosure proceedings may also have misled federal housing agencies, which now own or insure a majority of home loans, according to these sources.

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The task force, which includes investigators from the Justice Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development and other agencies, is also looking into whether the submission of flawed paperwork during the foreclosure process violated mail or wire fraud laws. Financial fraud cases often involve these statutes.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 10:09 am

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