“A month ago I questioned whether there was sufficient evidence of abusive and fraudulent practices in the mortgage business on Wall Street (underwriting, servicing, securitizations, etc) to make a case that the industry as a whole violated the Racketeering Act? I hold out no hope that our ‘leaders’ in Washington would even think about making that case; that said, I think there is plenty of reason to believe that a very real case could be made.
What will we likely see? Perhaps a number of individual cases. We witness just such a situation today with news that the Department of Justice yesterday filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank for lying about the quality of loans made by a mortgage subsidiary of the German bank.
The Wall Street Journal provides further details on this case this morning, in writing, U.S. Says Deutsche Bank Lied,
The Justice Department accused Deutsche Bank AG of “recklessly” lying about the quality of loans made by a mortgage unit of the German bank and guaranteed by the U.S. government.
In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara sought to recover alleged damages and losses on mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which could total more than $1 billion.
The 48-page lawsuit detailed what Mr. Bharara said was a decade-long disregard of basic underwriting standards and quality control at mortgage lender MortgageIT Inc., which was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 2007.
Now I ask you, do you think…”
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