60 Minutes With a Good Look at the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 07:45 PM

Hats off to 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley for taking a nice look at the foreclosure scandal on Sunday. Pelley... More

American Banker Delves into Debt-Collecting Woes at Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2012 at 03:26 PM

It looks more and more like the foreclosure scandal is a symptom of a larger problem. American Banker's Jeff Horwitz... More

Follow the Money Leads On the Iowa AG

While the press follows on a campaign-cash story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM

The National Institute on Money in State Politics's Follow The Money site reports on how campaign donations from the financial... More

A HuffPost Scoop, Overlooked By the Mainstream Press

HUD finds big banks defrauded taxpayers, but few follow the story

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 07:43 PM

Shahien Nasiripour scored a foreclosure-fraud scandal scoop for The Huffington Post on Monday, reporting that audits of the mortgage industry... More

Audit Notes: Lehman, Off the Hook; Foreclosure Scandal; Bloomberg Snooze

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 05:23 PM

Bloomberg News scoops that the fearsome SEC is going to let top executives from Lehman Brothers off the hook without... More

Audit Notes: Tax Break, No Wage Pressure, Clowning Schneiderman

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2012 at 12:54 AM

Reuters's David Cay Johnston has a good column today on why tax rates are lower than we generally think: We... More

ProPublica Catches Ally Financial Making It Up

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2011 at 08:33 PM

ProPublica has a terrific report today nailing Ally Financial (the former GMAC) for faking mortgage documents in order to foreclose... More

The Foreclosure Scandal Continues (UPDATED)

American Banker and Reuters show banks thumbing their nose at the law

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2011 at 01:41 PM

It's clear that the banks aren't much chastened by the foreclosure scandal that erupted last fall and which threatens to... More