by Alexandra Ronin | Nov 13, 2016 | Foreclosure Defense News, Tactics, and Tips
Should Bank of America and Wells Fargo be on the hook for potentially billions of dollars in tax revenue Miami and other cities lost after property values plunged in minority neighborhoods due to shoddy lending practices and foreclosures? And if so, why can’t Miami...
by Alexandra Ronin | Nov 13, 2016 | Foreclosure Defense News, Tactics, and Tips
Truthout: Lainey Hashorva: Please tell me a bit about your work background, and what brought you to apply for assistance through the HAMP or HARP programs with Wells Fargo? Therese Crowley: I was a Series 7 (securities industry) employee registered in the 1980s, and...
by Alexandra Ronin | Nov 10, 2016 | Foreclosure Defense News, Tactics, and Tips
Voters approved Proposition 59, which instructs elected officials to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision that dramatically altered the way money can be spent on politics. The Associated Press projects the ballot measure passed with...
by Alexandra Ronin | Nov 10, 2016 | Foreclosure Defense News, Tactics, and Tips
As Wall Street’s wealth management firms scramble to comply with a new U.S. Department of Labor rule, JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Wednesday it will stop offering commissions-paying retirement accounts. In doing so, J.P. Morgan will join Bank of America’s Merrill...
by Alexandra Ronin | Nov 9, 2016 | Foreclosure Defense News, Tactics, and Tips
Citigroup Inc. said Monday that it is cooperating with an industrywide investigation of interest-rate swaps. The bank said in a quarterly securities filing that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating “the trading and clearing of interest rate swaps...