Until recently, Darryl Woods was the chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Mainstreet Bank in Ashland, Missouri. Last week he pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government and taxpayers. His crime? The feds say he took $381,000 of TARP bailout monies and used the cash to purchase a luxury condo in Fort Meyers, Florida. Now […]
Recruiting Whistleblowers!
January 24th, 2012. President Obama addressed the nation in his State of the Union speech and told Americans that those responsible for the housing market crash would be held responsible. While few bankers have been sent to prison – and none from America’s “Too Big To Jail” banks – whistleblowers have helped the Justice Department […]
FIRREA – An Overlooked Whistleblower Tool?
I chuckled this morning when reading the paper. The big financial news this week is the Department of Justice suit against Bank of America for the sale of residential mortgage backed securities. The article claims the plaintiff’s bar “is abuzz” over the government’s use of a little known law called the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery […]