Former employees of the shuttered mortgage lender claim Sprout didn’t provide the required notice of termination and was holding back regular wages.

There’s not much left at non-agency lender Sprout Mortgage but there are plenty of rumors, none of them good. Meanwhile, mortgage fintech Better.com has been adding senior managers.

A New York district court has found that RPM/LendUS used stalling tactics to get out of a merger deal with Entitle Direct Group, a title insurance company.

The reason, United Wholesale Mortgage told employees, was to avoid legal bills and long-drawn court proceedings.

Despite a significant decline in indictments and convictions, the FHFA IG’s Office of Investigations secured more than six times as much in restitution than in the prior period.

Lenders argue the temporary measures adopted by Fannie and Freddie to promote condo safety unnecessarily raise costs for borrowers and present liability issues for HOAs and cooperatives.

In a refinancing scheme involving some 2,500 units, Seth Levine defrauded lenders and investors out of $60 million.

By punting on this GSE case, the appeals court effectively ends shareholders’ constitutional and Administrative Procedures Act claims. Now, all eyes turn to a breach of contract battle in district court.

America’s Moneyline claims officials of United Wholesale Mortgage had assured the broker that provisions of the controversial “all-in” agreement wouldn’t be enforced.

The federal appeals court has dismissed all claims in Fairholme Funds and seven other shareholder lawsuits against the U.S. government.