Hopefully, Judge Cote meant “defective loan [products]”. For the intended purpose of securitization and rehypothecation it was the method and device that the banks used to procure the collateral that was deceptive as well as defective.
Congratulations are in order to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has managed to bring a case to trial against Nomura Holdings and the Royal Bank of Scotland, two foreign banks with little U.S. reputational risk. This relatively obscure agency oversees Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac. Considering they have nowhere near the power of our federal regulators and prosecutors at our esteemed Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the victory is a strong step in the right direction.
A New York Times editorial (May 15, 2015), congratulated the government for its” big victory” against the two banks which had been deceiving investors about the mortgage securities they had been “peddling.” In no uncertain terms, a federal judge ruled that the “two banks misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in selling them mortgage bonds that contained “numerous errors and misrepresentation.”
“The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous,” Judge Denise L. Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote in a…
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