Countrywide settlement pays fraction to investors – Shell Game Continues

EDITOR’S NOTE: The shell game continues. While the media picks up stories about “settlements” giving rise to the presumption that Countrywide Home Loans and Bank of America and the rest of the securitization players committed various violations of statutes, duties, rules and regulations, the main point gets lost. Where is this money going and WHY? [...]

Mortgage Meltdown: Sue the Lender’s Auditor

The New York Times just published an article today summarizing a detailed 580 page report showing that KPMG, the auditor for Century Financial (now defunct) expressly approved a change in accounting method that allowed the company to show a profit when under normal accounting rules the company would have shown a loss. Implicitly this shows [...]

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