Where Does the Mortgage Settlement Money Go?

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Since the 2008 housing crisis, federal regulators have touted billion-dollar settlements, which, by giving certainty to investors, are often accompanied by a jump in the bank’s stock price.

Financial companies have paid at least $164 billion in more than 100 mortgage-related settlements since 2009, according to an analysis by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Below, we examine the eight banks that have paid the most and explain how the largest payments were divided up.

1. Bank of America: $71.23 billion in 24 settlements

The bank has settled mortgage-related cases with a plethora of federal and state regulators as well as investors from the Justice Department and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. A number of these settlements are tied to Bank of America’s purchase of Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch.

In 2014, the bank paid the single largest government settlement by a company in American history: $16.65 billion. Some of…

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Senate Quietly Passes The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act”

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While we wait to see if and when the Senate will pass (and president will sign) Bill “H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017”, which was passed by the House at the end of November with an overwhelming majority and which seeks to crack down on websites suspected of conducting Russian propaganda and calling for the US government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly,” another, perhaps even more dangerous and limiting to civil rights and freedom of speech bill passed on December 8.

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Using fake names on Facebook, Surveillance State, androids

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Using fake names on Facebook, the Surveillance State, androids By Jon Rappoport July 23, 2013 http://www.nomorefakenews.com File this one in the ever-burgeoning category of: how insane can legislators get…

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Using fake names on Facebook, Surveillance State, androids

Using fake names on Facebook, the Surveillance State, androids By Jon Rappoport July 23, 2013 http://www.nomorefakenews.com File this one in the ever-burgeoning category of: how insane can legislators get…

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The McKenzie Friend’s enemy?

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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and by that logic, my friend’s enemy is my enemy, what does this have to do with McKenzie friends?

Pause before you conjure up and pretend to give some semblance of an intelligent answer, or nod with a knowing, deep, and meaningful expression on your face, hiding the reality that you have no idea, or care particularly.

The original McKenzie friend was Ian Hanger, (later made Queen’s Counsel, and now a mediator in Queensland, Australia) in the case of McKenzie v McKenzie [1970] 3 ALL ER  1034, CA. Mr McKenzie was legally aided, but then legal aid was withdrawn. He could not afford legal representation, but Mr Hanger was prepared to go to court as a professional friend of McKenzie: A McKenzie Friend, to sit behind him, suggest advice based on procedure and the law, and to assist generally. The Judge…

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Intimidation, harassment, and blackmail have become the norm in American politics. Why? Because it works. — Maine Republic Email Alert

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BRAVE Standing Rock Medic Has Message For Police #NoDAPL — Maine Republic Email Alert

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Heroes of Ukrainian Diplomacy

interesting internal story of intrigue that is not reported in USA. Question WHY?????

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Original: Strategic Culture Foundation
Translated by Alexander Fedotov

Klim Chugunkin¹ and other heroes of the diplomacy of the ‘Independent’

By Dmitry Artemov| 10.03.2016 | 00:00

Every time after another anti-Russian escapades in Kiev, one asks himself: ‘What kind of diplomats work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?’ What kind of Minister of Foreign Affairs would publicly support ‘peaceful actions’ of throwing Molotov cocktails, flares and stones at the building of the Russian diplomatic mission? Who are representatives of international organizations, broadcasting the frank nonsense and lying into the eyes of the world? What kind of human rights activists would demand the immediate release of a war criminal?

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Ukraine Secret Service kidnaps LPR Civilians

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Original: novorosinform.org
Translated by @TamrikoT / Edited by @GBabeuf

Ukrainian intelligence agency kidnapped the parents of an LPR People’s Militia commander

The intelligence agencies of Ukraine continue using cynical, cruel, and inhumane methods against the civilian population of the Donbass. One more case in this vein was the kidnapping of the parents of the commander of a detachment of the People’s Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Igor Sidorenko. This, according to the correspondent of IA Novorossiya, was reported today by the chief of department of the People’s Militia of the LPR, Colonel Oleg Anashchenko, at a briefing in Lugansk.

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Assange Retaliates Back, Releases Entire Partnership Documents From Board

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Assange Has Begun His Take Down Of Hillary

WikiLeaks reported Tuesday morning that they would be releasing new documents every week leading up to the November 8th election.

With that, they have yet to actually deliver the major blow to the Clinton campaign as they promised, but they have released a document file covering a shady corporate firm in Paris, France that is linked to both Hillary Clinton and ISIS.

Paris struck a partnership with French industrial giant, Lafarge, which has now been exploited for funding ISIS for profit.

Documents indicate that Lafarge paid taxes to ISIS so that they can operate its cement plant in Syria, and they even bought oil from ISIS for many years.

WikiLeaks Confirms Hillary Sat On The Board That Funded ISIS

Hillary Clinton has been connected to Lafarge for decades. She sat on the Board of Directors and conducted legal business dating back to the 1980’s. She is…

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