Despite new rules, appraisers say pressure remains

By Joe Eaton

It’s been more than six weeks since new rules went into effect to clean up systemic abuses in the home appraisal business, but don’t ask an

The appraisal bubble

By Joe Eaton

In 2004, years before plummeting real estate values turned Fort Myers, Florida, into a top five foreclosure capital, appraiser Mike Tipton f

Reform reading: JPMorgan CEO not embarrassed to be banker

By Julie Vorman

A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....
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Ginnie Mae's troubling endorsements

By Brian Grow and Zachary Goldfarb

The trouble signs surrounding Lend America had been building for years. A top executive was convicted of mortgage fraud but still helped run

Mortgage fraud reports rise, but some fraud may still be undetected

By Kat Aaron and Nick Schwellenbach

Reports of suspected mortgage fraud — fueled by the current economic crisis — are up in 2008, according to two new reports by the FBI and th

More mortgage fraud reporting?

By Kat Aaron

Nonbank mortgage lenders would have to file reports of suspected fraud for the first time, under a new proposal issued Wednesday by the Fina
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Executives with criminal records slip through FHA crackdown, documents show

By Brian Grow

A crackdown on reckless mortgage lenders by the Federal Housing Administration has failed to root out several executives with criminal recor

A good time to be a white-collar criminal?

By Nick Schwellenbach

The Securities and Exchange Commission has said that it failed to pursue a variety of allegations about Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi schem

FBI director: Mortgage fraud investigations continue to jump

By Nick Schwellenbach

In written testimony before Congress today, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that the growing numbers of mortgage fraud investigations “

FBI brags about chasing down mortgage fraudsters but big banks are left untouched

By Michael Hudson

FBI report identifies mortgage fraudsters of all stripes – except banks

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"… hers got under way before President Obama created . . . the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force in November 2009, and many of them were well on the …"

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