Congressional Oversight Panel Report Highlights Systemic Risk of Foreclosure Fraud

"The Congressional Oversight Panel, the TARP watchdog program formerly chaired by Elizabeth Warren and now helmed by former Senator Ted Kaufman, has released a report detailing the failures in the mortgage servicing industry, and the threats to the overall housing market, financial sector and greater economy. The report is chilling; while it rightly says that we don’t yet know the extent of the fraud involved (they call it “irregularities”), even a small chunk of the mortgage-backed securities market going sour would have major implications for all of us."