FDIC Closes Four More Lenders

DSNews  reports the closure of four more lending banks: La Jolla Bank, FSB in La Jolla, California; George Washington Savings Bank, Orland Park, Illinois; Marco Community Bank, Marco Island, Florida; and The La Coste National Bank, Lacoste, Texas. This brings the number of failures on the FDIC list to 20 for this year. Nearly all [...]

Tri-Star Title Agency Owner sentenced

Roseann Wagner, 45, of Prior Lake, Minnesota was sentenced  in federal court for stealing more than $470,000  for payment of title insurance premiums and recording fees.  Wagner, a licensed insurance agent, owned and operated Tri-Star Title, a title insurance agency. The investigation also found that Wagner had withdrawn nearly $100,000 from ATMs and cashiers at a [...]

Title Insurance Around the Country

Today’s news for the Title Insurance Industry is not good, reading like a bad novel… In Georgia [...]

Judge Cancels Loan in

Judge Cancels loan debt because lender does not deal in good faith to modify sub-prime [...]

Case Study: “Destroying Faith in the U.S. Mortgage Backed Security System”

I found this lawsuit to be a perfect case study in what I would title “ How to Destroy Faith in the U.S. Mortgage Backed Security [...]

Another Short Sale Fraud Uncovered

Title Insurers and Closers, beware. CNBC has picked up yet another RESPA violation.  It would seem that some second mortgage lenders are asking for “payments on the side – i.e. off the closing statement,” (clearly illigal under RESPA) in order to release liability under the second mortgage.   Their leverage is, if you don’t pay, we [...]