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BofA, Wells, Others Accused of Stiffing Vets

October 10, 2011
A “who’s who” list of a number of the largest and most well-known mortgage lenders in the country – including Wells Fargo, Countrywide Home Loans, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, GMAC Mortgage Corp., Citimortgage and Suntrust Mortgage – have been accused by two whistle-blower types of charging U.S. military veterans illegal fees to refinance their home mortgages. According to the accusations, made in a complaint unsealed in federal court in Atlanta late last week, the mortgage lending entities charged refinance fees that are prohibited by the Department of Veterans Affairs and hid the charges by padding or inflating other allowable charges so they could obtain government guarantees for the mortgages, all without telling the veterans.
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