Report Says: Bear Stearns Executives Sold Illegal RMBS and Covered It Up

Former back office employees from Bear Stearns are coming out of the woodwork to explain how Tom Marano’s mortgage group cheated their own clients out of billions. This week I reported at The Distressed Debt Report, EMC insiders say they were told to make up the classification for whole loans, packaged into mortgage securities, to […]

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Michael Metter’s Spongetech Partner Makes Plea Deal with Feds

It looks like Michael Metter’s Spongetech partner is fessing up to the Brooklyn Dept. of Justice. Last week Steven Moskowitz plead guilty to a criminal charge of securities fraud. Aaron Elstein, of Crain’s New York, first reported the news on Friday. It’s unclear what monetary fines or jail time Moskowitz is facing. Robert Nardoza, DOJ […]

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Best Trade: Todd Edgar says Goodby to Bank Prop Trading

Barclays Capital has been forced to layoff off its star commodity trading team because of Dodd-Frank legislation reports Patrick Jenkins at the Financial Times last night. Edgar became somewhat of a celebrity trader after my team at Trader Monthly discovered his talents for reading global macro trends and parlaying them into a killer gold trade […]

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UPDATE: JP Morgan is afraid of the RMBS Fraud Suits

JP Morgan is showing signs of fear. Yesterday, I updated Keiser Report viewers on the dirty tricks the bank’s lawyers and former Bear Stearns mortgage traders are pulling in an atempt to stop the truth coming out in the Bear Stearns/EMC fraud suit. A story I first began reporting a year ago at The Atlantic […]

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Wachovia Executives lies About Health of Stock Leads to half a Billion Payoff

Pension funds who bought faulty Wachovia preferred securities and bonds between mid-2006 to mid-2008 scored a big win today. The commercial bank, who was taken over by Wells Fargo when it failed in 2008, agreed to pay over half a billion for misleading institutional investors as to the health of their option ARM portfolio. The […]

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Now Playing in New Canaan: Hairy Penis

Elm Street in New Canaan, CT has been pranked this morning. In a location packed daily with wealthy housewives and their well dress kids in tow, now sits a movie sign inviting people to come see films with names like ‘Hairy Penis’. (You know instead of Harry Potter) It looks like some creative senior high […]

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FDIC Report Blames Fred DeCaro Jr. For USA Bank Failure

The watchdog that inspects what went wrong after the FDIC seizes a bank has found USA Bank failed because of its Chairman’s actions. Today I report at The Distressed Debt Report , Fred DeCaro Jr was named as violating multiple banking and lending laws that lead to last summer’s seizure of USA Bank. DeCaro and […]

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Will PWC kick Corey Ribotsky out of NIR Group master fund?

N.I.R. Group investors scored a big win in the Cayman Island’s civil court this month. Corey Ribotsky will now have to answer to a court appointed independent liquidator for the Master fund who says the first order of business is an investigation into how Ribotsky has been managing cash flow and investment valuations since the […]

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