by Joseph Bird It has been a while since we updated you on Allied Mortgage*, especially the US v Allied and Americus 2.5 billion dollar False Claims Act civil lawsuit. Since our last update, the case was transferred to a Houston, Texas Federal District Court. Many or the other peripheral cases have gone into hibernation […]
Allied Home Mortgage and Pinocchio
by Joe Bird, Esq. Many of us were introduced to the concept of lying and its destructive powers through the story of little Pinocchio. A wooden puppet magically animated, yet unable to lie without his wooden nose growing longer and longer with each lie. Real life often mimics classic tales. Take for example little Jim […]
The Man Behind The Curtain II – Jim Hodge and Allied Home Mortgage
by Joe Bird In recent months, Jim Hodge, the owner, CEO and chief wizard in charge of all companies Allied, has announced he wants to “restore his reputation” and that he would love to chat with the media, but was “traveling”. It is unclear where he is traveling to, but he is on the run […]
Breaking News: Lloyds Bails on Allied Home Mortgage
by Brian Mahany By now, most of our readers and many in the mortgage industry know that we have the largest federal false claims action in the U.S., HUD’s $2.4 billion case against Allied Home Mortgage and CEO Jim Hodge. We have proudly represented former Allied employees who didn’t get paid and the American taxpayers […]
The Bully Behind the Curtain
by Joe Bird Like many of you, at Mahany & Ertl we routinely encounter bullies and trash talkers. So often in the world of fraud, those who protest and threaten the loudest are the biggest frauds and bullies. As in the Wizard of Oz, they just need a determined canine of modest proportions to pull […]
New Action Against Allied Home Mortgage
by Brian Mahany Our action against Allied Home Mortgage, which the court ordered unsealed last week after being adopted by HUD and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is certainly the big news in the mortgage world. The feds now have billion dollar + claims against Allied and Deutsche Bank. Hopefully others will follow. American taxpayers have […]
Allied Home Mortgage TERMINATED From HUD Program
[Ed. Note: When we first posted this article, the Justice Department’s investigation into Allied Home Mortgage and its owner, Jim Hodge, was well under way. A federal court in Houston would later sanction Allied Home Mortgage for over $300 million. That case was a whistleblower case and we are proud to have filed it. Because […]