Banking Misconduct Blog

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule which will further protect consumers from serial violators like the infamous subprime mortgage servicing giant OCWEN. Under the new rule, banks and financial companies will no longer be allowed to use agreements that prevent...

Last April, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a lawsuit against Ocwen and its subsidiaries for “failing borrowers at every stage of the mortgage servicing process.” The CFPB’s statement claimed that “Ocwen’s years of widespread errors, shortcuts, and...

We rarely write about residential foreclosure cases. Although we don’t typically handle cases for individual homeowners, we follow them closely. The same deceitful tricks banks use against helpless homeowners often find their way into commercial cases. Banks have deep pockets and know that...

Curt Schilling is a household name in New England. A former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, Schilling helped lead three different Major League Baseball teams to the World Series. After retiring in 2008, Schilling went on to start a video game company. That is where this sad tail...