The downfall of Community Home is intriguing: the servicer closed its Jackson office and had customers send payments to Las Vegas. From there, payments were sent to a location in Costa Rica, according to AP.
Sen. Shelby is an Alabama Republican with a populist streak who is no friend of the GSEs, but he may side with shareholders of the two companies who are getting shafted by Treasury “sweeps.”
DC Circuit Latest Court to Reject GSE Tax Collection Effort by Municipalities. A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court recently upheld a lower court ruling against Kay County in Oklahoma, which has been trying to collect real estate transfer taxes from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In rejecting Kay County’s bid to get the GSEs to pay a 1 percent “documentary stamp tax,” the DC court’s finding became the latest in a growing number of…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency late last week announced it reached a nearly $100 million settlement with RBS Securities to settle allegations tied to non-agency MBS bought by Freddie Mac from 2005 to 2007, but the deal represents just a fraction of the firm’s remaining exposure. The $99.5 million settlement only resolves claims against RBS in FHFA v. Ally Financial Inc. in the Southern District of New York. Ally Financial is the successor company to GMAC-RFC, a now defunct non-agency MBS issuer.
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