A recent federal appeals court ruling that held Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are private companies under the False Claims Act, and not government agencies, has stoked speculation about what it means for shareholder lawsuits challenging the Treasury Department’s net-worth sweep of capital from the two government-sponsored enterprises. On Feb. 22, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that claims cannot be brought against the GSEs under the False Claims Act because they are private companies. In United States ex rel. Adams v. Aurora Loan Services, Inc., et al., the government alleged FCA claims against a handful of lenders because of erroneous representations and warranties, similar to a number of FCA lawsuits successfully...
Long-time mortgage veteran Julie Vore, now an originations analyst in the mortgage markets team, research, markets and regulations division at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, recently answered more industry questions about the integrated disclosure rule known as TRID. Speaking during a webinar sponsored by American Mortgage Law Group and The Mortgage Collaborative, Vore elaborated on the most recent TRID-related guidance released by the bureau, a two-page fact sheet on the disclosure of construction and construction-to-permanent loans. “I recently was involved with a group of lenders, and there was heated debate in the construction realm as to whether the best way to disclose a single closed construction loan is with one loan estimate and closing disclosure or with...
In dollars and cents, additional spending at Fannie totaled $726 million over the four-year period, while at Freddie the reading was a more benign $376 million.
TRID errors were a topic of discussion at the LendersOne mortgage cooperative meeting in New Orleans. Pete Mills, senior vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, was giving a presentation.
RSS