Lying about your income on a "stated income" IndyMac Alt-A loan is pure and simple old fashioned mortgage fraud, and against the law.
Millions of Mexicans storming across the US/Mexico border are blatantly breaking the law. Employers who hire them are breaking the law.
Doing a "short sale" to get out of a pre-foreclosure property, then not reporting the short amount as income on your US tax return is tax fraud, and is illegal.
Submitting a knowingly false and over-stated appraisal to "make the number work" is fraud and is illegal
A realtor paying a mortgage broker an unreported spiff under the table is committing tax fraud.
Getting undisclosed cash back after closing is fraud and is illegal.
HELLO!!! DOES ANYONE GIVE A RAT'S ASS? ARE WE NO LONGER A COUNTRY OF LAWS? WHAT THE HELL HAS BECOME OF US?
We send flipping Paris Hilton to jail for 45 days for driving when she shouldn't have, yet we have real estate and mortgage crimes going on all around the nation, with trillions of dollars and the entire world economy on the line, and we don't care?
Anarchy reigns supreme. Your government has failed you, and continues to fail you. And you can thank the NAR and NAHB $$$ pouring into your corrupt congress for that.
What's going on should make you sick. And now we'll all pay the price.


