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White House Crackdown: 'Name and Shame' Lenders
ABC News ^ | 11/30/09 | MATTHEW JAFFE & RACHEL MARTIN

Posted on 11/30/2009 2:42:09 PM PST by Nachum

The Obama administration today announced a new campaign to get mortgage companies to lower mortgage payments for struggling homeowners – and part of the strategy is some old-fashioned "name and shame." Share

To date over 650,000 homeowners have entered into trial modifications under the Treasury Department's housing relief plan – a ratio of about one in five eligible borrowers. But the administration – frustrated with the performance of mortgage companies thus far – will now try to ratchet up the pressure on servicers, especially with 375,000 of these trial modifications set to convert to permanent ones by year's end.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crackdown; default; house; lenders; loan; loans; scam; white
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1 posted on 11/30/2009 2:42:11 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 11/30/2009 2:42:53 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Oh! good old fashioned Gubmint coercion!


3 posted on 11/30/2009 2:46:16 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Nachum

Half of these trial modifications have already re-defaulted.


4 posted on 11/30/2009 2:46:30 PM PST by C19fan
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To: Nachum

“…Treasury Department’s housing relief plan…”

How’s that hope and change go’n with Bobo running the Clown Universe; and just think how well Government Medical Services relief plan will be run when the I.R.S. is managing everyone care.


5 posted on 11/30/2009 2:49:55 PM PST by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Nachum

meanwhile, back on the Kenyan ranch...

“Fannie Mae Delinquency Rate Up Over 300%”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375596/posts


6 posted on 11/30/2009 2:52:18 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: ntmxx

Medical insurance will be provided my Mutual Of Obama.


7 posted on 11/30/2009 2:53:47 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Nachum
I put 20% down on a fifteen-year fixed-rate mortgage, and have had every payment automatically taken out of my bank account on the first of the month.

Is there anything available for me?

8 posted on 11/30/2009 3:32:04 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Fido969

Yes, you will be punished for your good behavior. Higher taxes will be imposed on you because you did the right thing.


9 posted on 11/30/2009 5:13:48 PM PST by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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