Thursday, November 21, 2013

What JPMorgan admitted

Steven Rosenfeld has translated the legalese of JP's $13 billion settlement with the U.S. Here's what he thinks JP admitted:

  • J.P. Morgan knew it had bad loans from the start.
  • J.P. Morgan knew appraisers were inflating values.
  • J.P. Morgan lied about these values to investors.
  • When asked about bad loans, they said, ‘Don’t worry.”
  • They were buying loans like sharks biting at bait.
  • Their sales pitches were filled false assurances.
  • Morgan knew it was buying bad loans.
  • They dumped bad loans, en masse, into loan pools. 
  • They had twice the bad loans as their standards allowed.
  • They met with Countywide, but kept buying bad loans.
  • They kept telling investors everything was peachy.
  • Other Wall Street giants did the exact same thing.           

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