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  • InLibrisLibertas
    Location : Mill Valley, California, United States

    I'm an independent investor. I make my living from the returns on my investments. I work at home, in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay area. I spent most of my career as an executive in high-tech, although I also spent time in banking. Down to one kid in university now!

The Frauderizer Bunny

August 26th, 2008 by reality

The mainstream press and the victim-seeking politicians continue to understate the role that fraud has played in the property bust. A CNNMoney piece calls out the ongoing lying and scamming: 

With the housing market in turmoil and lending standards tougher than ever, you’d think that the kind of unscrupulous activity that helped plunge the industry into crisis would be a thing of the past.

You’d be wrong. Mortgage fraud is still soaring, according to a new report from the Mortgage Asset Research Institute (MARI), a division of ChoicePoint. 

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