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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
... you own a home in Los Angeles, watch out for the scammers. Your city leads the nation in mortgage fraud , according to the FBI's annual mortgage fraud review.
The FBI's Los Angeles field of...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a Hesperia, Calif., homeowner who thought she was working with ...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...erest-only options or any of the other fancy stuff that got so many borrowers in trouble during the subprime mortgage-lending crisis — if they choose.
But the Washington Post today asks an impo...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... with it. "There may not be anyone who can improve on the scale and ingenuity of Madoff's fraud. However, it is a recurring theme in human nature that someone in the next decades will try to...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
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The global stimulus packages are likely to provide massive opportunities for fraud, according to a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 ...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 21, 2009
As the number of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams.
The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or those who are facing foreclosure. They promise to modify these homeowners'...
NFL Week 6
in End Zone Buzz, on June 19, 2009
...nd promised to appear in Texas to face burglary and like 7 counts of drug related charges involving fraud and delivery.
Ouch!
So I wonder... as a disgruntled fan, can I get a refund out of some of...
Does owning a home have to be the American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 17, 2009
We like to find people to blame for our problems, don't we? And today, a lot of us are busy looking for people to blame for the mortgage meltdown the country is currently suffering through.
You know all about the meltdown: Housing foreclosures are soaring. Owners are walking away from thei...
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Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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Bernard Madoff, who has pleaded guilty to 11 charges of fraud, money laudnering, perjury and theft, faces up to 150 years in jail. And his victims want exactly that! The New York Times reports ...
How'd the mortgage meltdown happen? NPR knows
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009
... you ever wanted to know — and then some — about mortgage loans, bad lending practices, subprime mortgages and the reasons why the mortgage industry went so wrong: It's NPR, of course....
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
... the Australian Crime Commission that organized crime syndicates could cash in on the pandemic with fraud, robbery and a black market in bootleg medicine. The Commission warned: "Criminal groups ...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...ke action to prevent reverse mortgages from causing some of the same problems for homeowners that subprime loans have already caused.
Reverse mortgages are popular these days. They let homeowners 6...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
... Bank singled out African-American borrowers in Baltimore and suburban Maryland for high-interest subprime mortgages.
Baltimore has since filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo. The city claims that t...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
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One of the things that has disturbed me the most about the subprime crisis is the impact it's had on the African American and Hispanic communities, and the way banks had targeted these people ...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 29, 2009
...rtgagees are in serious trouble. What's even more concerning is the fact that it's not the subprime loans that are the main cause of the problem. Prime fixed-rate loans now represent the larg...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
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Conrad Black's appeal against his fraud conviction will have massive implications on the system, regardless of what the decision is. Black, as we know, was convicted two year ago of a a $6.1-m...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...d others? Did PwC leadership - US, global, and Indian- enable and perhaps promote complicity in the fraud called 'India's Enron' for the sake of their consulting business strategy? Did Sat...
Loan modifications not always helping homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
...difications aren't quite working .
The paper cites a Fitch Ratings report that points out that subprime loans that have been modified are turning bad again at high rates, even with a change in lo...
Looking to buy? Your mortgage loan might be smaller than ever
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 13, 2009
...elling today.
And qualifying for a mortgage loan today is more difficult, as lenders, stung by the subprime lending crisis, are doing everything they can to avoid passing out mortgage money to borrow...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...ies and Exchange Commissions stuffed up big time with Bernard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Government Accountabilit...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
...g virtual products as they did in financial markets wasn't serving anyone. Neither was flogging subprime packages to people who couldn't repay them, securitising them in packages that nobody c...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
...won't crack down on them? First comes its report showing that that the top 25 originators of subprime loans, the $1 trillion worth of assets that created the meltdown were owned and financed by...
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Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
... loan (S&L) crisis, the 2001 recession by Enron and the latest by the totally amoral selling of subprime mortgages to people who would never be able to repay them, and their securitization in pack...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are being sued for negligence fraud and deceit and as Frank Partnoy, a professor at the San Diego School of Law and a former deriv...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have the Los Angeles Times telling us of criminal probes into possible securities...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...nce, and people start spending again. But William Black , Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention warns that this amounts to a cover up. In an interview with Bill Moyers , Black sa...
ATM Skimmers are High Tech Robbery
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 10, 2009
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I know about ATM skimmers, and in general I know they are a bad thing. What I didn't know is that their use across the globe and throughout the US is dramatically on the rise. If you aren't familiar with ATM skimmers, they are a ATM/credit card reader that fit over the card ...
More bad news ahead, says Roubini
in Sox First, on April 8, 2009
...rtgage delinquencies comes when you break down the figures further. According to the data, 39.8% of subprime borrowers were at least 30 days behind on their home mortgage loans, up 23.7% from last yea...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...itain that recession related robberies are on the rise and other reports of a massive increase in fraud. With no sign of recovery, people are getting desperate. It's a trend that will continue ...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
... Exchange Commission charging Bernard Madoff's accountant David G. Friehling, with securities fraud, aiding and abetting investment adviser fraud, and four counts of filing false audit reports r...
Mortgage fraud and AIG
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
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Mortgage fraud is on the rise, up 26% , and it's a serious problem. Fewer loans are being processed but there's more fraud, suggesting there is a real sickness in the system. It means peo...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
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So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" th...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
...s burst - an unpleasant characteristic often manifests, according to Socionomics: rampant cheating, fraud and financial exploitation.
Bernie Madoff is one human face we can put to that characterist...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
..., a clear and worrying pattern is emerging. Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff are the first two big frauds that have come out of this meltdown and they won't be the last. Furthermore, both cases r...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...take over the US economy, a turbo-charged growth of financial debt and extending mortgage credit to subprime and other unqualified buyers, swelling the housing, mortgage and credit bubble to the point...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...es and Exchange Commission had looked the other way and allowed Bernard Madoff to get away with his fraud. Now, the New York Post reports that bankers thought Madoff was a shyster but kept shtum. &...
The meltdown and fascism: minister warns
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
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In his book The Subprime Solution , economist Robert Shiller warns that in good times people are willing to co-operate and accommodate others but when optimism for the future turns sour, they bec...
What are different forms of supply chain fraud?
in Supplychainer, on January 31, 2009
... I read a blog post in Supply Chain Network on supply chain fraud (Read it here ) which was mentioning that in every step of the value chain, there are opportunities for fraud and these can have d...
Internetbetrug bei Hotelbuchungen floriert
in kinkaa blog - das Blog zur Reisesuchmaschine, on January 30, 2009
Bin über folgende News von pressetext. deutschland gestolpert und frage mich gerade, ob es sich wohl um ein reines US Phänomen handelt. Hierzulande habe ich bis jetzt noch nicht von solchen Fällen speziell im Hotelbereich gehört.
Also Obacht da draussen, vor falschen Hotelseiten. Wir werden mit Sich...
Ponzi schemes proliferate
in Sox First, on January 28, 2009
...nevitable more Ponzi schemes would come to light. For a good reason too. With every bubble there is fraud. Look behind every bubble and you'll find the cousins of fraud, greed and unchecked enthus...
Mayor Of Gulfport Mississippi Charged With Committing "Katrina" Fraud
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 28, 2009
...Brent Warr, the mayor of Gulfport Mississippi and his wife, Laura Jean Warr, have been charged with fraud in connection with a liability insurance claim they filed.
The couple also defrauded FEMA, an...
Financial crisis to drive fraud claims
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
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The financial meltdown will result in more fraud claims and legal disputes, according to the latest report from risk management consultants Kroll . The alarming part about this report is the war...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 19, 2009
Siemens is upbeat about its chances of getting its insurers to pay a big chunk of the $1.3 billion it paid to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany. And that's a worry because it leaves you wondering whether the company has learned any lessons from the debacle. Law...
The Effect of Satyam's Revelation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 10, 2009
...stantial pressure to show results, particularly as the world economy deteriorated .
Whether the fraudulent statements by Satyam or the Indian governments late-but-strong reaction to it will affect...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Subprime meltdown drives litigation
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
...were sued in a federal securities class action in 2008, compared to only 5 percent in 2007. And the subprime/liquidity crisis was associated with 97 federal securities class actions. In 2008, 111 cla...
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
It had to happen. Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme is turning into a lawyers' picnic with the lawsuits rolling in. First, we have reports that a New York woman, Phyllis Molchatsky, is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission after losing $2 million investing with Mado...
The Madoff scandal: now for the auditors
in Sox First, on December 23, 2008
...et Journal. He 'responded evasively,' the SEC memo said. "Mr. Madoff was charged with fraud after authorities say he told his sons that the investment-management business was a 'gian...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
... that the FBI is now diverting agents from its counter-terrorism divisions to focus on Madoff's fraud schemes. What's clear now is that you can't have a fraud of that size without some ass...
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
...n Christopher Cox announcing an in-house investigation into why it did not detect the $50 billion fraud case sooner. Cox has admitted has the SEC screwed up badly. "The Commission has learned ...
Will there be more Madoffs?
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
...s Bernard Madoff a sign of things to come? Will there be more like him? Is Madoff's $50 billion fraud a sign of things to come? These are valid questions because Madoff was the product of a dysfu...
More law suits for big tobacco
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
... the way they promote light and low tar brands. Basically, the court has allowed smokers to sue for fraud. It is, as the New York Times points out, a fraught issue because fraud claims are not suite...
How Madoff played the SEC for suckers
in Sox First, on December 15, 2008
Over the weekend, I did a blog entry condemning the Securities and Exchange Commission for ignoring the warnings it was receiving about swindler Bernard Madoff. Now Bloomberg reports that the SEC never even bothered to inspect his investment advisory business. This was despite the fact that...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
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The extraordinary $50 billion fraud and Ponzi scheme that Wall Street legend Bernard Madoff is accused of is bad enough. But what is more remarkable are the questions about federal regulators. W...
Why did the housing meltdown happen in the US?
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...preventing riskier loans. And finally, there was the unique role of securitisation which encouraged subprime lending. The big question for the US now is whether the egg can be unscrambled. Given that...
RFID ePass: Entire boarding ritual at airport will now be a breeze
in The RFID Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...ag identifier and number sequence and does not include any kind of personal information. Chances of fraud are negligible as customer would have to be present self during the entire process.This entire...
The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
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Have just finished reading Robert Shiller's The Subprime Solution which offers plenty of food for thought. Provocative and unsettling stuff. Shiller argues that the the impact of the US hou...
Auditors can't beat fraud
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
...g entry suggesting that it might be easy to pull the wool over auditors' eyes when it comes to fraud.
Now a piece in CIO Today, Investigations or Audits: Fraud vs. Innocent Mistakes reaffirms...
US market: it's back to 1997
in Sox First, on November 21, 2008
...loomberg says the collapse comes as writedowns and credit losses stemming from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market reaches $965 billion. And it's growing. The market is responding to da...
How the predication models failed
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
...rectly predicted that a drop in real estate prices of 10 or 20 percent would imperil the market for subprime mortgage-backed securities but the analysts assigned a very low probability to that happeni...
Deutsche Bank's accounting shell games
in Sox First, on November 5, 2008
...o be strongly capitalized. The message: the banks are capable of lending even more. But when the US subprime loan market collapsed, resulting in the credit crunch, those same assets have been marked d...
Greenspan's legacy
in Sox First, on October 25, 2008
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In his book The Age of Turbulence , former Fed chief Alan Greenspan proclaimed that subprime was a good thing for America. "The gains were especially dramatic among Hispanics and blacks, as ...
Black blogs from cell
in Sox First, on October 24, 2008
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Jailed for more than six years for Fraud, Conrad Black is "working", even if it's for gratis, for Tina Brown's web venture The Daily Beast . The disgraced businessman has taken...
One Version of How the Meltdown Happened
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...ill happen in the future.
Ben Stein goes on to give a generally understandable explanation of the subprimes mess and credit swaps and other financial instruments you and I will never grasp completely...
Major Cybercrime Site Shut Down
in I got Spam?!, on October 18, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5697450 The site, called DarkMarket, was kept secret and access was granted by invitation only. Its forum allowed cyberthieves to buy and sell stolen banking details and credit card numbers obtained via phishing scams and website hacks. It also served as a ...
Financial meltdown and climate change
in Sox First, on October 17, 2008
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Why does the subprime meltdown remind me of our inability to deal with climate change? Both are the result of market failure, both are symptoms of the inability of government and markets to plan f...
Single Family Offices Investing in Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...y" as a key concern. Other concerns sited include lock-up periods (60%), style drift (55%) and fraud (37%)
More at; Survey Shows Nearly 75% of Single Family Offices Invest in Hedge Funds, With ...
