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Minnesota Financial Crimes Task Force

Update: U.S. Senator Norm Coleman on the Financial Crimes Task Force

April 9, 2008

Maybe Senator Coleman reads this blog, maybe not. In either case, I just received a reply to my e-mail. While the Minnesota Financial Crimes Task Force is obviously a state organization, I wanted to alert my federal legislators to the newly-created void in mortgage fraud enforcement in case they wanted to address it at a [...]

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Update: Minnesota Senator Linda Berglin on the Financial Crimes Task Force

April 9, 2008

When I write about an issue I tag “consumer activism,” I usually try to start the activism myself. So when I reported that Minnesota’s Financial Crimes Task Force is shutting down its mortgage fraud investigations, I went and fired off an e-mail to my state and federal representatives.
Usually when I do this, the response is [...]

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Minnesota gives mortgage fraudsters a free pass

March 26, 2008

In case you have been living in a box for the last 12 months, mortgage fraud is a big problem. It is very hard, sometimes impossible to help the defrauded consumers, since fraudsters tend to refuse to cooperate in civil lawsuits, and judges are reluctant to compel them to do so. Uncollectible default judgments are [...]

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