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  • Bond Insurer Wants to Split Into 2 Companies (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    FGIC Corp, a bond insurer whose main unit has lost its top credit ratings from the three major agencies, has told New York regulators it wants to split into two companies.
    2008-02-15 09:40:04
  • Bond insurer FGIC plans to split in two (EARTHtimes.org)

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - FGIC Corp, a bond insurer that has lost its top credit ratings, has told New York regulators it wants to split into two companies, a spokesman for the state insurance regulator said on Friday.
    2008-02-15 09:42:16
  • Georgia Court Convicts Four For Mortgage Fraud

    All Headline News - Atlanta, GA (AHN) - A jury in the federal district court of Georgia has convicted three people from Georgia and a woman from North Carolina for obtaining $6 million in fraudulent mortgage loans from a single lender in just 10 weeks in 2006. Convicted ...
    2008-02-12 03:57:00
  • Third of people 'risk ID fraud'

    MSN UK News - ... of the issue, and the potential ways in which people could fall victim in the future. "Being a victim of identity fraud can severely damage your credit rating, potentially causing problems with debt collectors, court actions and in getting a mortgage ...
    2008-02-14 11:33:00
  • Senate Investigating Foreclosure Rescue Scams

    The Ledger - The six people who testified Wednesday generally agreed that more money for mortgage fraud investigation, enforcement of existing laws and public education are the best ways to stem the tide of incidents. The Mortgage Bankers Association, which ...
    2008-02-15 02:53:00
  • Lifting the Lid: Hunting for hard evidence in subprime probes

    Forbes - The federal agency is investigating mortgage fraud-related cases, but Boyle declined to elaborate on those. Documents collected in such investigations could run into millions of pages, said Anthony Sabino, a law professor at St. John's University ...
    2008-02-15 08:29:00
  • Brokerage's sale ends a local tale - Baltimore Sun

    Brokerage's sale ends a local taleBaltimore Sun, United States - 8 hours agoLast month, the firm offered a settlement worth about $16 million in cash and stock to victims of an investment fraud that involved one of its former ...
    2008-02-15 12:19:31
  • Bear Probe May Center on Investor Call - Wall Street Journal

    Bear Probe May Center on Investor CallWall Street Journal - 8 hours agoA year after early cracks in the market -- which have resulted in thousands of borrowers being forced from their homes and mortgage investors losing more ...
    2008-02-15 12:23:14
  • AMI calls for calm amid fraud speculation - ifaonline.co.uk

    AMI calls for calm amid fraud speculationifaonline.co.uk, UK - 5 hours ago... to the Council of Mortgage Lenders that he has been made aware of over 200 cases of possible mortgage fraud because of information passed from lenders. ...
    2008-02-15 03:03:11
  • Pissy + arrogant + hysterical + hypocritical = GOP - Capitol Hill Blue

    Pissy + arrogant + hysterical + hypocritical = GOPCapitol Hill Blue, VA - 5 hours agoMortgage Meltdown. FISA, Patriot Act, Domestic Spying, the collapse of the US military, the IraqNam Quagmire, the Iranian problem, Haliburton, Enron, ...
    2008-02-15 03:08:48
  • Bear Stearns Investigation Said to Center on Managers - New York Times Blogs

    Bear Stearns Investigation Said to Center on ManagersNew York Times Blogs, NY - 4 hours ago... of New York are examining whether any discrepancy between the public and private comments of Mr. Cioffi and others could constitute fraud, The Journal said.
    2008-02-15 04:04:49
  • Beating the credit card fraudsters - TechRadar.com

    Beating the credit card fraudstersTechRadar.com, UK - 4 hours agoOnline identity theft might get more publicity these days, but did you know that a quarter of the £400 million lost to credit card fraud in the UK every ...
    2008-02-15 04:23:44
  • Deets Emerge on the Bear Subprime Criminal Probe - Wall Street Journal

    Deets Emerge on the Bear Subprime Criminal ProbeWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoDuring the April conference call, the story says, a participant wondered whether packaged mortgage securities in the fund — called collateralized debt ...
    2008-02-15 05:44:36
  • The sign debate - North Lake Tahoe Bonanza

    The sign debateNorth Lake Tahoe Bonanza, NV - 2 hours ago"Well, in case you haven't heard, the recession and current plummeting real estate valuations due to overbuilding, mortgage fraud, sub-prime mortgages ...
    2008-02-15 06:14:07
  • BROTHEL CASE GOES FOR TRIAL - Plymouth Evening Herald

    BROTHEL CASE GOES FOR TRIALPlymouth Evening Herald, UK - 1 hour ago... have used false book-keeping and mortgage fraud to facilitate the retention of the proceeds of brothel keeping between March 2005 and January last year. ...
    2008-02-15 07:06:16