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A slain Brooklyn slumlord's shady business practices helped sink a bank that counted President Obama as a customer and ex-Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon as a member of its board, The Post has learned. Two unpaid loans to murder victim Menachem.......professional hit by one of his many unpaid creditors, source said. Law-enforcement sources said Sunday that investigators are poring over a smartphone found Friday attached to the bottom of StarkÂ’s car. They believe it might have been used to track his movements ahead of his deadly Jan. 2 abduction. Cops are trying to trace the phoneÂ’s owner, as well as...

The epidemic of home foreclosures has been made far worse than necessary due to the banks' unwillingness to work with homeowners. Although Congress has passed numerous laws to force the banks to assist homeowners, the banks have found ways not to comply. The banks also brazenly break other laws to further their profits at the expense of homeowners, most recently by falsifying interest rates in the LIBOR scandal.Regular middle class Americans everywhere have unjustly lost their homes to foreclosure. They ended up in homes they could not sell due to the Federal Reserve Board, not their own actions. The Fed manipulates...