Oops, I did it again, says Bank of America

Bank of America explains how their foreclosures are fine, just fine.

Why it was just last week BofA was squawking about how error-free their foreclosure process was, no problems here, thanks for asking.

Now that they’ve deigned to actually examine their foreclosures, they now say, oopsie, pesky bookkeeping errors were happening all over the [...]

Bill Black. Control Fraud crushed Kabul Bank

Bill Black, a regulator during the S&L crisis of the 80′s and author of The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One, devised the concept of control fraud.

He says

Kabul Bank has been revealed to be a “control fraud.” Control frauds occur when those that control a seemingly legitimate [...]

Bill Black on Lehman fraud and failure

Testifying at House FinServ hearing

Lehman’s story is a story of fraud, their subprime and liar loans operations. They sold it to the world. Regulatory heads blocked reform. We knew for a decade these were frauds. But DC did nothing. When Black was Litigation Director of Federal Home Loan Bank board in the [...]

To rob a country, own a bank. Pt. 5. Bill Black

Pt. 5 of Bill Black interview about control fraud, “fraud controlled from the highest levels of financial institutions and the government.”

The leadership of both major parties are deeply entwined with a parasitical Wall Street and crony capitalism. This is about to get much worse because of the Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate [...]

To rob a country, own a bank. Pt. 4. Bill Black

Pt. 4 of Bill Black interview about control fraud, “fraud controlled from the highest levels of financial institutions and the government.”

The Obama campaign had him do an video slamming McCain on Keating Five and failure to learn the lesson. But after Obama got elected, no one with actual and proven expertise in handling [...]

To rob a country, own a bank. Pt. 3. Bill Black

Pt. 3 of Bill Black interview about control fraud, “fraud controlled from the highest levels of financial institutions and the government.”

The fraud has been covered up mainly by using accounting scams and tricks to pretend it doesn’t exist. Japan tried this. The result was their “Lost Decade.” Our current scams were done by [...]

To rob a country, own a bank. Pt. 2. Bill Black

Pt. 2 of Bill Black interview about control fraud, “fraud controlled from the highest levels of financial institutions and the government.”

The US government could have forced financial reforms as a condition of the bailouts. But both Bush and Obama did nothing. Main Street has suffered, while financial institutions have prospered. The finance sector [...]

To rob a country, own a bank. Pt. 1. Bill Black

(Bill Black’s stunning 5-part video interview by TheRealNews has been posted widely. However, most sites, including this one, posted all five with not much information. I’m breaking them down, one video a day, with notes. Emphasis added)

This stuff is bombshell. Black details how the financial crisis was the result of deliberate, organized, well-planned [...]