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Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay Penalty for Allegedly Misrepresenting Quality of Loans

Mortgage Fraud Blog. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and several of its affiliates (Wells Fargo) will pay a civil penalty of $2.09 billion under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) based on the bank’s alleged origination … Continue reading

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court awards sanctions for misrepresenting website as independent review site in false advertising case

Purple Innovation, LLC v. Honest Reviews, LLC, 2018 WL 840035, No. 17-cv-138 (D. Utah Feb. 12, 2018)A rare sanctions order in a false advertising case, in which the court grants sanctions based on the defendants’ submission of misleading and false … Continue reading

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Misrepresenting law on squatting: Draft letter

Things have moved on about the idea of a letter from housing lawyers. A letter has been prepared for housing layers and law academics to sign and arrangements are under way for getting it publicity. I'm sending the text of … Continue reading

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Lies, lies, lies – debtor loses discharge for misrepresenting art value

Sonoma County and North Bay folks — indeed, everyone – considering bankruptcy might take a moment to consider what happened to one debtor who lied on his petition. Sydney Peters was an art dealer who lied on his Chapter 7 … Continue reading

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