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Double Down: Banks Seek New Way To Profit From Foreclosure Mess

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Ubs, Surplus Property, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fortress Investment Group, Foreclosure, Federal Plan for Foreclosures, Barclays Capital, Household Wealth, Business News

Banks helped create the housing crisis, and now they're seeking a new way to profit from it. As Bloomberg reported Monday, several financial and inves...

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Ex-Fannie Mae CEO Takes Leave Of Absence, Amid SEC Charges

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Video, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Hedge Funds, Fannie Mae, Fortress Investment Group, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Delaware's Center for Corporate Governance, Macquarie, Business News

Daniel Mudd, the embattled former chief executive of mortgage financing company Fannie Mae, is taking a leave of absence from his current job as h...

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SEC: Ex-Fannie Mae CEO May Have Misled Investors On Subprimes

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Ceo Daniel Mudd, Fortress Investment Group, Fannie Mae, Sec, Subprime Loans, US Regulators, Wells Notice, Mortgage Company, Business News

(Reuters) - Daniel Mudd, the former CEO of government-sponsored mortgage firm Fannie Mae, has received notice from U.S. regulators that he may fac...

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Wall Street Quietly Creates New Profit From Homeowner Distress

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeowner Crisis, Wall Street, Daniel Mudd, Bank of America, Fortress Investment Group, Homeowners, Bofa, Tax Debt, Business News

Story by The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, originally posted at The Center For Public Integrity. When Florida retiree Gladys Walker fell behi...

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Billionaires Who've Lost BIG: 10 Titans Who've Watched Their Net Worth Plummet (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BET Network, Billionaires, Private Equity, Real Estate, Banks, Forbes 400, Slidepollajax, Millionaires, Fortress Investment Group, Recession, Facebook, Forbes Billionaires, Business News

For billionaires, suffering a massive loss of wealth probably has a different effect than for, say, a millionaire's. But in relative terms, the glob...

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Intrawest Auction Set For Middle Of Winter Olympics In Vancouver

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steamboat Springs, Intrawest, Fortress Investment Group, Winter Olympics, Copper Mountain, Davidson Kempner, Lehman Brothers, Vancouver, Denver News

Two lenders -- Lehman Brothers and Davidson Kempner - have begun foreclosure proceedings against Intrawest Holdings, owner of Whistler and several Col...

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Michael Jackson Creditors Include NY Firms That Allowed Star To Continue Lavish Lifestyle

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Colony Capital LLC, NY Banks and Michael Jackson, Fortress Investment Group, Michael Jackson NY, Michael Jackson Finances, Michael Jackson Creditors, Michael Jackson Money, Barclays Bank PLC, New York-New York, Michael Jackson Colony Capital, Colony Capital Michael Jackson, Adolphe Bouguereau Michael Jackson Collection, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- Music lovers weren't the only ones drawn to the King of Pop. Wooed by his global fame and earning power, a bevy of financial firms po...

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Blackstone's Secrecy: Rejects SEC Request for Fund Data

bloomberg.com | Miles Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

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March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Blackstone Group LP, the world's largest private-equity firm, rebuffed a request from securities regulators to publicly disclo...

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Top 10 Worst Business Deals

Time | Bill Saporito | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harman, Microsoft, Och-Ziff Capital Management, Everquest Financial IPO, John Snow, Abu Dhabi, Fortress Investment Group, Facebook, Cerberus, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, DaimlerChrysler, Countrywide, Citibank, J.C. Flowers, Countrywide Financial, Mark Zuckerberg, Sallie Mae, Bear Stearns, United Rentals, KKR, Business News

#1. The Public Invests in Blackstone Group It was only a matter of time before the private equity firms let the public in on the game -- for an infla...

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