And because the trusts had to receive mortgage assignments within 90 days of their establishment and not years later, the document production itself was fraudulent, the Jacksonville FBI alleged, whether the signatures were forged or not.
He also received mortgages of roughly $1.5 million through the school as a perquisite — $440,000 of which was forgiven by the university over time.
In the past five years, millions of people who received mortgages from Countrywide, many of them the minority homeowners he had set out to assist, were hurt, not helped, by him.
And a recent case against Morgan Stanley cited a witness saying that the bank would receive mortgages with documentation of a buyer's income and then shred that documentation so that it could call it a "no doc" loan and pay less for it.
Mr. Cameron said on the eve of his party conference that he would immediately begin the second phase of a "Help to Buy" program scheduled for January that provided government guarantees to banks to allow home buyers to receive mortgages with only a 5 percent down payment on properties costing up to £600,000, or about $962,000.
Towns also received mortgages from Countrywide but denies any wrongdoing.
In short, this action and its resulting, deceptive free-for-all could effectively end the ability of low-income earners to receive mortgages at all.
I saw serial refinancers, living on their equity, and watched repayment-challenged buyers receive mortgages as easily as frogs catch flies.
Then, days before closing on the apartment in October, Ms. Nikonorow's mortgage broker told her in an e-mail message that she had to take an online course and quiz on the responsibilities of homeownership before receiving a mortgage.
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