INSIGHT: TOP JUSTICE OFFICIALS CONNECTED TO MORTGAGE BANKS
By Scot J. Paltrow
Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:31am EST
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.
The firm, Covington & Burling, is one of Washington's biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and other federal ethics experts said that federal conflict of interest rules required Holder and Breuer to recuse themselves from any Justice Department decisions relating to law firm clients they personally had done work for.
Both the Justice Department and Covington declined to say if either official had personally worked on matters for the big mortgage industry clients. Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said Holder and Breuer had complied fully with conflict of interest regulations, but she declined to say if they had recused themselves from any matters related to the former clients.
Reuters reported in December that under Holder and Breuer, the Justice Department hasn't brought any criminal cases against big banks or other companies involved in mortgage servicing, even though copious evidence has surfaced of apparent criminal violations in foreclosure cases.
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his "immoral but not illegal" determination. 
leaves the DOJ he can move to K Street with a nice ten fold increase in his income... unless he crosses the banks, then he'll just be out of a job. Those are his choices. What would you do? What would I do? 
... when he appointed them in the first place? 
I've been dealing with numerous governmental agencies from local to state to federal with regard to my upside down mortgage. My wife and I got shammed into a liar loan in 2006 and we've now lost half our value and have no way to save our home from inevitable foreclosure, as our 2nd balloons in 4 years and we don't have a huge chunk of cash to pay it. All we've been asking for over a year now is that they (lender) refi our loan into a 30 year fixed; forget about any principal limit reductions... we agreed to the balance and we're just trying to be responsible and pay the bills we took on.
All I have to say is that I sent out over 250 letters and got back possibly 15 return mails, so a large portion of my letters were delivered. Responses from everyone so far have been nothing but disheartening. "You pay your bills on time, so there's nothing we can do for you."
Our only hope is that the CFPB or Fannie Mae comes through for me, but it's my experience that none of the bastards give a crap about the average citizen. Republican, democrat... equally corrupt representatives.
I did see a few comments regarding Attorney Generals in this thread, and I have to say that Kamala Harris' response to my letter was so disgustingly boiler plate.
