Bigger the Bank, greater the felony.
We can be sure that the case will drag on and nothing may come out of it.
The Justice Department sued Deutsche Bank AG, one of the world’s 10 biggest banks by assets, on Tuesday for at least $1 billion for defrauding taxpayers by “repeatedly” lying to a federal agency when securing taxpayer-backed insurance for thousands of shoddy mortgages.
MortgageIT, a subsidiary of Germany‘s largest lender, egregiously violated federal rules that came with government backing on more than 39,000 mortgages worth more than $5 billion since 1999, according to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
By funneling risky mortgages to the Department of Housing and Urban Development‘s Federal Housing Administration, MortgageIT’s loans were guaranteed with the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. A third of those mortgages, or about 12,500, have since defaulted, leaving the government on the hook.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/deutsche-bank-mortgage-fraud_n_857105.html
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