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Justice Department taking larger role on SEC’s turf – The Washington Post

By Securities Docket on November 21, 2013, 7:31 am

The Justice Department has aggressively tackled financial misconduct in two recent high-profile cases, the type typically handled by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This week, Justice exacted a record $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase to resolve allegations that the bank knowingly sold faulty mortgage securities. Earlier this year, it slapped Standard & Poor’s with […]

Posted in Criminal, SEC, Top | Tagged FIRREA, Settlements | 1 Response

From Anonymity to Scourge of Wall Street – DealBook

By Securities Docket on November 2, 2013, 10:17 am

The architect of a recent legal crackdown on Wall Street’s dubious mortgage practices was not the attorney general, a United States attorney or a rising star in the Justice Department. Instead, it was Leon W. Weidman, an unassuming 69-year-old career prosecutor, toiling away in anonymity 3,000 miles from Washington…. His pioneering use of the law […]

Posted in Industry | Tagged FIRREA, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Web Watch

Regulatory Enforcement: Using FIRREA to Prosecute Financial Fraud — The D & O Diary

By Securities Docket on August 27, 2013, 8:30 am

Back in 2009, when the current bank failure litigation wave was in its very earliest stages, I noted that in its preliminary efforts to lay the groundwork to pursue failed bank litigation, the FDIC had resurrected FIRREA, a statutory vestige from the S&L crisis in the late 80s and early 90s that had in the […]

Posted in Criminal, Industry | Tagged FIRREA, Web Watch

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