Here are links to some of the things we’ll talk about in class today.

Thanks so much to Wayne North from the Seattle HUD OIG office for talking w/us about mortgage fraud. Wayne mentioned a case in Bakersfield Calif. Here’s an article about the Crisp mortgage fraud case.

Here’s our new federal regulator: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.,.,..and their request for help and feedback on designing a new TIL and GFE.….and here’s the CFPB Consumer Access website

Here’s Rhonda Porter’s twitter account, which provides a great example of how to follow the new WA State DFI advertising rules.

Here’s the story about the indictment of Shawn Portmann that was mentioned by Wayne North from HUD.

Free, HUD-Approved Non-Profit Agencies can be found here for WA State homeowners.

Here’s an article I wrote asking the question: “Are those Cash Call radio ads deceptive?”

I sent an email to Deb Bortner at DFI asking about the Paramount Equity Consent Order:  Q: What is the money used for that DFI collected as a fine from PE?

There was a request for more reading material on short sale fraud…Here’s the 2011 Core Logic report.

there was a request for the delinquency graphs I showed after the Faye v. Santos case.  Follow the menu at the top of the web site and tab over to ‘delinquencies.’