Sorry, not trying to hijack your thread but I don’t know how to post a new one.
Just a quick question...
Does anyone subscribe to WSJ to get the rest of this story, I think should be out there?
The discovery that Countrywide Financial Corp. recorded phone conversations with borrowers in a controversial mortgage program that included public officials — and that those recordings have been destroyed — has prompted new congressional calls for more information about the program.
Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is trying to subpoena the remaining records of Countrywide’s VIP loan program. So far, the committee’s chairman, New York Democratic Rep. Edolphus Towns, has turned down that request.
The committee’s Republican staff investigators have spent months looking into the VIP program, and learned of ...
need to be a subscriber for the rest.
A complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics led the Senate Ethics Committee to begin looking at mortgages Sens Dodd (D-Conn), and Kent Conrad, D-ND, received from Countrywide Financial Corp via a "VIP" program for "friends of Angelo (Mozilo)," Countrywide's then-chief exec. The SEC filed a lawsuit accusing Mozilo of civil fraud and illegal insider trading.
HOW DODD'S DEAL MIGHT HAVE GONE DOWN For nearly a year and a half, Countrywide Financial failed (or declined) to secure its interest in Dodd's home by taking the ordinary and essential step of presenting the documents to the local town clerk and recording them in the land records. The escrow company that handles the transaction always does that, once the monies are wired.
JUST WONDERING Why would someone instruct the escrow company not to record the Deed? Actually on a refi, the deed would be in Dodd's name and the recording would be a lien by Countrywide. (A) Was the mortgage non-existent? (B) Were wired monies a payoff "laundered" as a mortgage? (C) Were the monies diverted-----maybe wired to a Conn casino account?
RECAP The escrow company that handles mortgage transactions always records the deed once the monies are wired. Why would someone instruct the escrow company not to record the Deed? Was the mortgage perhaps non-existent? Were wired monies a payoff "laundered" as a mortgage? Wired monies could be a smoking gun. Were the monies diverted-----maybe wired to a Conn casino account?
NEED TO KNOW Dodd (and his wife and family) could be enrolled in high-roller comp programs at Conn casinos (and/or in other gambling venues). These casino programs show every nickel high rollers bet---including wins on which high rollers may not have paid taxes.
Casinos are very tightly regulated. They are more than happy to cooperate with authorities---to protect their licenses. Casinos would also have records on the amount of untraceable casino chips Dodd (his wife and his family) received-----maybe gifts from his pal Angelo.
Authorities should also inquire if Dodd wire-transferred--- or if Angelo and other sub-prime lenders--- wire-transferred monies into Dodd's casino account........and if taxes were paid on these monies.
CONTACTS: Connecticut Division of Special Revenue (Gaming Control Board)
WEB SITE http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:EPdMRVRy8g8J:www.ct.gov/dosr/
Mailing Addresses:
Division of Special Revenue (casino control)
555 Russell Rd.
Newington 06111-1523
Division of Special Revenue (casino control)
P.O. Box 310424
Newington CT 06131-0424
Another possibility: Dodd, his family, and Angelo, may have used NETeller Plc to illegally convert monies that were then transferred offshore---to overseas gambling companies, for their personal use later. NETeller is an Isle of Man-based payment processor for gambling Web sites (suspected of having operations in the US Virgin Islands---a notorious money-laundering bank haven).