#Fannie mae foreclosures scottsville full#

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#Fannie mae foreclosures scottsville full#

are routinely filing false pleadings and affidavits.'Ī Fannie Mae spokeswoman declined to comment on the full report, but confirmed that the 2006 investigation identified a specific issue with the practice of filing lost note affidavits, which she said was immediately addressed. In 2006, an internal report from that probe concluded that 'oreclosure attorneys. A Fannie shareholder alerted the company back in December 2003 that its attorneys may have engaged in abusive practices in Florida, and the agency hired an outside firm to investigate. 'It appears that an untold number of borrowers with loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae may have suffered abuses that violated their legal rights,' said Cummings.įannie should have known the problem existed. In 2010, Fannie foreclosed on more than 260,000 borrowers. By 2008, when it entered conservatorship after suffering large losses in the mortgage meltdown, the value of loans it backed exceeded $3 trillion - 26% of the total mortgage market.Īs the foreclosure crisis deepened, many of those loans defaulted. The abuses likely affected many borrowers, given Fannie's huge footprint in the mortgage market. In a letter to FHFA, Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform who requested the report, called the failures 'an abuse of the public trust and an assault on the integrity of our justice system.' Foreclosures rise in August 'If a law firm self-reported no issues as it processed cases,' the inspector general said, 'then Fannie Mae presumed the firm was doing a good job.' Even after mortgage borrower complaints were raised in the press, the inspector general said FHFA and the agency it replaced, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, failed to take adequate corrective action and Fannie continued to use the law firms blamed for the problems.