We will focus on four key types of financial crime:
· Mortgage fraud -- from the simplest of “flip” schemes to systematic lending fraud in our nationwide housing market; · Securities fraud – from traditional insider trading, to Ponzi schemes, to accounting fraud, to misrepresentations to investors; · Recovery Act and rescue fraud – including the theft of federal stimulus funds and the illegal use of taxpayer dollars intended to shore up our financial institutions; and · Financial discrimination – including predatory lending practices in minority communities and the sale of financial products that exploit the elderly and disadvantaged.
IBAFT: We don’t give a rat’s behind about going after Urban Casavant, John Edwards, their “cohorts” and the relatively pitiful $250 million that you state they misappropriated.