Tom Miller Pens Love Letter to Settlements with Financial Fraudsters
By David Dayen, author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud.
You could spread around a lot of blame for the current state of our two-tiered system of justice and lack of accountability, particularly as it relates to the financial sector. But if you wanted to find the most pathetic figure involved in that whole rigamarole, all roads lead to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.
As a refresher for non-obsessives, Miller was the somewhat highly regarded law enforcer put in charge of the 50-state Attorney General investigation after revelations around the end of 2010 that mortgage servicing companies, mortgage-backed trustees and their law firms were issuing false documents in foreclosure cases on a mass scale to cover up busted chains of title on securitized loans. (I, er, wrote a book on this.) Within days of being announced as the lead investigator, we learned that Miller received $261,000 from banking interests for his re-election campaign – 88 times more than he ever took in the previous decade – and that he personally asked bank lawyers for contributions. Miller then famously told community groups in Iowa that “we will put people in jail” for foreclosure fraud, only days later his office backtracked and said they weren’t referring to foreclosure fraud but some separate mortgage fraud investigation in Iowa (which he didn’t put people in jail for either), and then days after that he called the case “inherently civil,” and days after that he appeared at the Senate Banking Committee and admitted he had two settlement negotiations with Bank of America within the first month of the vaunted investigation. I could go on, but why bother? Whatever his outlook going into the investigation, Miller folded within first contact with the system, and became Washington’s lackey for a settlement that didn’t even rise to the level of a slap on the wrist.
So it was no surprise to dig up a public comment he made a couple weeks ago to the Department of Education, praising civil settlements for corporate crimes rather than holding individuals and corporations accountable for their wrongdoing. This paean to settlements couldn’t come from a better source.
Just as Miller quickly settled out foreclosure abuses, he opted for a national settlement with for-profit college chain Education Management Corporation (EDMC) after they misled prospective students with bogus job placement statistics. No executive saw handcuffs or restrictions on their bonuses from that either. But after a series of these incidents, and outcry from student groups who were forced to pay back their loans to colleges that defrauded them, the Education Department was belatedly pressured into issuing a rule providing a streamlined debt forgiveness process.
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The BIG IDEA that FRAUD sells is criminally conspiratorial.
How many times did the investors in their own fraud cash those FILL IN THE BLANK NOTES is the real question.
There’s unlawful CONFLICT OF INTEREST when they’re investing in BANK FRAUD they create & engage in by hiding their identity & there should be no FC’s resulting from that fact because that’s FRAUD IN THE FACTUM.
GLASS STEAGALL had nothing to do with preventing FRAUDULENT BUSINESS PRACTICES by INVESTORS in their own FRAUD.
It was trying to prevent BANKS from becoming PAWN BROKERS of their own INVESTMENT HO– USES but this is far worse than that they’ve become BROTHELS by proselytizing on the margins their own BIG IDEA that FRAUD sells or has value when it doesn’t.
You can you tube search the video in my previous comment because it does exist.
There’s more to the story than is ever going to be told by the banksters.
I remember watching BEN BERNANKE’S go round with the SENATE when he told them they can write the mandate to get rid of the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK if they don’t like what they do so obviously there’s lots not being told.
For example, this video that says the FBI IS THE BIGGEST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE U.S. which was startling to me being my father was in the FBI.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=kHKTsfRT6nO
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Tom Miller and State of Iowa TOOK MONEY THREW US POOR PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS I BELIEVE HE TOOK A BRIBE WORD ON THE STREET IS. I CALLED MY NAME HAD BEEN FORGED ONTO A FAKE LOAN AND MORTGAGE ON MY 10 ACREAGE FARM. I WASNT ALLOWED MY DAY IN COURT MISCUDUCT BY JUDGE FOY AND BRIAN SAYWER OUT JUDGE WORKED FOR BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUSTEE CIT GROUP VERICREST FINANCIAL NOW CALIBER LOANS. ALL CROOKED MAFIA RUN BANKS. THEG ARENT SCARED OF THE LAW IN IOWA. I THOUGHT FILKNG FORGED DOCUMENYS WAS A CRIME IN IOWA. I CALLED COMPLAINED TO ABOUT FORGERY BY NORTARY IN COLORADO. I SUPPOSED TO HAVE BORROWED 65,000 I NEVER EVER BORROWED THIS MONEY. TOM MILLER SAYS GO HORE A ATTORNEY. I TRIED. $10,000 THEY SAID. IM HANDICAPPED CALLED LEGAL AID MASON CITY NO HELP AVALIBLE. IM 60 YEARS OLD. HAD A STROKE LATELY A HEART ATTACK. HARD TO FIGHT LAW WHERE ALL IS CROOKED. TOM MILLER VOTE THE LYIAR OUT OF OFFICE. STATE OF IOWA LAWS ARD FOR ANYONE THAT CAN AFFORD THEM. SO NO JUSTICE IN SHIT STATE OF IOWA. I DONT OWE NO MONEY ALL LIES. JUDGE AND FORECLOSURE ATTORNEY JUST DIDNT CALL ME FOR PHONE TRIAL. ALL FRAUD I NEVER EVER HAD MY DAY IN COURT. TALK ABOUT VIOLATIONS BY JUDGES AND FORECLOSURE ATTORNEYS. PLAN NOW IS TO SUE FIR WRONGFUL FORECLOSURE. BANKS ARE INSURED. BANKERS SCREW INVESTERS. BANKERS MAKE ALOT OF MONEY. ALL FRAUD START DEMANDING JUSTICE PUT THESE CRIMINALS IN PRISON. THEY ARE BUYING THE ATTORNEYS.JUDGES. JUDGE FOY IN MY CASE. STATE OF IOWA IS NO BETTER THAN THESE CROOKS! PEOPLE OF IOWA NEED VOTE OUR CROOKED ATTORNEYS GONE FROM OFFICE!