Fannie/Freddie v. the Banks

Posted by kevin on September 7, 2011 under Foreclosure Blog | Comments are off for this article

A few weeks ago, things were looking good for the “too big to fail” predatory banks.  The feds (FDIC) were ready to make a deal.  Most of the State AG’s were backing off.  The carnivore, Schneiderman, was dumped from the leadership group of AG’s.  In NJ, the big lenders got the OK to continue foreclosing with new and improved certifications (looked eerily like the old and unimproved certifications to me).  A couple of zigs and a couple of zags, and the banks could get out of this mess.  Then, last Friday the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the overseer of FANNIE MAE and FREDDIE MAC, filed lawsuits against every major lender in sight claiming fraud and demanding upwards of $50B.

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