{"id":924,"date":"2008-01-30T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/uncategorized\/fbi-investigates-14-in-mortgage-industry\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T07:03:10","slug":"fbi-investigates-14-in-mortgage-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/real-estate\/fbi-investigates-14-in-mortgage-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Investigates 14 In Mortgage Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/IndustryInfo\/story?id=4210595\">This news isn&#8217;t all that surprising<\/a> .&nbsp; After all&nbsp; bubbles create greed&nbsp; and greed creates criminals , so it&#8217;s just a matter of time before the&nbsp; prison parade begins.&nbsp; Deja vu.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI isn&#8217;t disclosing which companies are under investigation but undoubtedly some big, recognized names are in this group.&nbsp; The investigation began in spring of 2007 and includes companies across the financial services industry, from mortgage lenders to  investment banks that bundle home loans into securities sold to investors.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of economic crimes unit Neil Power said, &quot;We&#8217;re looking at the executives to see if they were committing insider trading.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s in cuffs first? Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide?&nbsp; Stanley O&#8217;Neal of Merrill Lynch? Let the wagers and blame game begin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Should be interesting to watch these guys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ousiv\/idUSN1442936020080114\">testify&nbsp; to Congress on Feb 7th.<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/urchin.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n_uacct = \"UA-419633-5\";\nurchinTracker();\n<\/script> <!--HitTail Code--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/19967.hittail.com\/mlt.js\"><\/script> <!--End HitTail Code--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/wp-includes\/js\/prototype.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/share-this\/share-this.php?akst_action=js\"><\/script> <noscript><\/noscript>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sphere.com\/widgets\/sphereit\/js?siteid=wordpressorg\"><\/script>  <script text=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/themes\/semiologic\/ibox.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>        <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/mint\/?record&amp;key=3736417950566936333662363175535246656a5a7852303231&amp;referer=http%3A\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/category\/company-earnings\/&amp;resource=http%3A\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/salesforcecom-crm-surges-china-stocks-still-getting-hit-on-earnings\/&amp;resource_title=SalesForce.com%20%28CRM%29%20Surges%2C%20China%20Stocks%20Still%20Getting%20Hit%20On%20Earnings%20%7C%20Trading%20Stocks%20-%20Self%20Investors&amp;resource_title_encoded=0&amp;resolution=1440x900&amp;flash_version=0&amp;1201663672918&amp;serve_js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news isn&#8217;t all that surprising .&nbsp; After all&nbsp; bubbles create greed&nbsp; and greed creates criminals , so it&#8217;s just a matter of time before the&nbsp; prison parade begins.&nbsp; Deja vu. The FBI isn&#8217;t disclosing which companies are under investigation but undoubtedly some big, recognized names are in this group.&nbsp; The investigation began in spring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/real-estate\/fbi-investigates-14-in-mortgage-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI Investigates 14 In Mortgage Industry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}