WELLS FARGO-NORWEST-CONDOR CONNECTIONS INFO — FOR SECURITIZATION RESEARCH

submitted by MARY COCHRANE Wells Fargo & Co. ‘a private label tradename’ purchased 11/2/98. Foothill & Norwest & UBS … do business using ‘private label brand’ and all of the existing agreements and former registrations stayed open. Already in business in 1994/1996 with Lehman Brothers, Structured Asset Securities Corp, Bear Stearns, former Wells Fargo, Norwest, [...]

TAKE THE MONEY AND THEN TAKE THE HOUSE TOO: WHAT A DEAL!

COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary New Questions Raised in Mortgage Financing EDITOR’S COMMENT: I worked on Wall Street and I was an investment banker. I know the mentality. If money is sitting there, they will take it and worry about it later. This article is the tip of the iceberg [...]

APPRAISAL FRAUD: DEVIL IN THE DETAILS

From Brian Davies COMMENTS ON CALIFORNIA MELLO ROOS FRAUDS PERPETRATED BY LENNAR, RYAND, SUNCAL. THE BUILDERS AND SUNCAL THE DEVELOPER FUNDED BY LEHMAN BROTHERS GOT THE APPRAISER (IN THE 990 PAGE MELLO ROOS DOCUMENT ATTACHED) TO SAY THAT A RECENTLY SOLD DEVELOPMENT WAS WORTH $81 MILLION. THIS APPRAISER FRAUD WAS BASED ON SALES PRICES TO [...]

AFTER THE SALE: PART I

Submitted by Charles Koppa. 6/9/2010 Editor’s Note: We are starting to look at events AFTER the sale has taken place and we are discovering a number of things: CREDIT BID: Only the Creditor can submit a credit bid. All others must pay actual money. If a non-creditor submitted a credit bid (essentially bidding the “amount [...]

AND the indictments start

“This will go on for a long time and a lot of people will be indicted,” “The government continues to show that it simply doesn’t understand how this market operated,” Editor’s Note: If you read this carefully, you get a flavor of how the derivative scam adventure involved everyone except its victims. Mind you, there [...]