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Elizabeth Warren: A Real Probe Needed on Foreclosure Abuses
By Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post

15 July 11Prof. Elizabeth Warren, chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau set up to oversee the TARP program, 04/21/09. (photo: Tim Sloan/AFP)

A top Obama administration official on Thursday questioned the scope of the state and federal investigations into alleged mortgage abuses and “illegal” foreclosures perpetrated by the nation’s largest mortgage companies, marking the first time a senior White House official publicly broke ranks with the administration over the issue and raising fresh questions about the wisdom of the government’s rush to settle with the firms.

Elizabeth Warren, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told a congressional panel that government agencies may not have sufficiently investigated claims that borrowers’ homes were illegally seized by banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial. Continue reading