#BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

**THE_LIGHT** · March 14, 2011, 07:36:54 AM

Re: #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/ LINKS FOR EMAILS

**Shpira** · March 14, 2011, 07:59:17 AM

Re: #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

unusual spelt as "an usual" enough said

**res0nat0r** · March 14, 2011, 12:37:31 PM

Re: #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

heres some info until the site comes back up:

"Anonymous" Whistleblower Charges BofA With Large Scale Force Placed Insurance Scheme With Cooperation of Servicers | naked capitalism

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/03/wikileaks-whistleblower-charges-bofa-of-engaging-in-large-scale-force-placed-insurance-scheme-with-cooperation-of-servicers.html

Ooh, this is ugly. The charge made in this Anonymous release (via BankofAmericaSuck) is that Bank of America, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Balboa Insurance and the help of cooperating servicers, engaged in a mortgage borrower abuse called "force placed insurance". This is absolutely 100% not kosher. Famed subprime servicer miscreant Fairbanks in 2003 signed a consent decree with the FTC and HUD over abuses that included forced placed insurance. The industry is well aware that this sort of thing is not permissible. (Note Balboa is due to be sold to QBE of Australia; I see that the definitive agreement was entered into on February 3 but do not see a press release saying that the sale has closed) While the focus of ire may be Bank of America, let me stress that this sort of insurance really amounts to a scheme to fatten servicer margins. If this leak is accurate, the servicers at a minimum cooperated with this scheme. If they got kickbacks, um, commissions, they are culpable and thus liable. As we have stated repeatedly, servicers lose tons of money on portfolios with a high level of delinquencies and defaults. The example of Fairbanks, a standalone servicer who subprime portfolio got in trouble in 2002, is that servicers who are losing money start abusing customers and investors to restore profits. Fairbanks charged customers for force placed insurance and as part of its consent decree, paid large fines and fired its CEO (who was also fined). Regardless, this release lends credence a notion too obvious to borrowers yet the banks and its co-conspirators, meaning the regulators, have long denied, that mortgage servicing and foreclosures are rife with abuses and criminality.

**Shpira** · March 15, 2011, 09:44:25 AM

Re: #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

Nothing will come of this...just so that you know. What GS did on the markets is far worse and everyone who should be is well aware of it...and nothing is/was done...and BOA being BOA/ML is not gonna get a lot of stick for this...so its all just pissing into the wind

#BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

#BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1

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