Wells Fargo Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank reached a settlement with Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh on Thursday over allegations that they participated in a kickback scheme with Genuine Title, LLC.
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank and Citi are settling a lawsuit involving foreclosures with Massachusetts, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said Friday.
JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank and Citi bank settled with Massachusetts after the banks allegedly foreclosed on homes when they didn’t have the legal right to do so, according to an announcement today by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - A class action lawsuit filed recently alleges Wells Fargo Bank went into a couple's home, changed the locks and took out its possessions after the property went into foreclosure.
A class-action lawsuit filed on Jan. 3 alleged Wells Fargo Bank went into a couple's home, changed the locks and took out their possessions after the property went into foreclosure.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced a lawsuit Wednesday against a debt collection company, its director and its affiliates, alleging they engaged in fraudulent practices to try to collect on outstanding debts.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday he is suing Wells Fargo to compel the bank to honor its commitments under the 2012 National Mortgage Settlement.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman responded Wednesday to a progress report that found Wells Fargo failed to comply with the timeline servicing standards of the National Mortgage Settlement.
RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) -- The monitor of the nationwide mortgage settlement says, in a summary of the five compliance reports he submitted to a federal court, that a test of the five banks' compliance have resulted in eight "fails."
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- Wells Fargo Bank this week agreed to pay out more than $40 million to settle a complaint, filed by the National Fair Housing Alliance last year, that it wasn't maintaining foreclosed properties in minority neighborhoods.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- More than a dozen housing and consumer advocates, in a letter to a federal judge last week, questioned whether homeowner relief given under the requirements of a nationwide mortgage settlement is being given fairly to borrowers in communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis.
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) -- Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, in a letter Wednesday, said he is concerned that certain terms of the nationwide mortgage settlement are not being met by the five banks that signed on to the deal.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced his intention Monday to sue Wells Fargo and Bank of America for allegedly engaging in repeated violations of the terms of the National Mortgage Settlement.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday a federal court has entered an order authorizing the Internal Revenue Service to serve a "John Doe" summons on U.S. taxpayers who may hold offshore accounts at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce FirstCaribbean International Bank.
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) -- The Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected a constitutional challenge by Wells Fargo Bank to the state's recently passed Nonrecourse Mortgage Loan Act.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A representative for Wells Fargo responded on Wednesday to remarks made by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman related to foreclosure relief in New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Madigan CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the distribution of $4.7 million in funding on Tuesday to the Legal Assistance Foundation from a national foreclosure settlement reached earlier this year.
