Background – Bear Stearns:
The Atlantic – Jan 25, 2011: Emails Suggest that Bear Stearns Cheated Clients out of Billions
“Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors through the mortgage securities they created and sold while at Bear.
Last week a lawsuit filed in 2008 by mortgage insurer Ambac Assurance Corp against Bear Stearns and JPMorgan was unsealed. The lawsuit’s supporting e-mails, going back as far as 2005, highlight Bear traders telling their superiors they were selling investors like Ambac a “sack of [sh#%].”
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According to the lawsuit, the Bear traders would sell toxic mortgage securities to investors and then sell back the bad loans with early payment defaults to the banks that originated them at a discount. The traders would pocket the refund, and would not pass it on to the mortgage trust, which was where it should have gone to be distributed to the investors who owned the bonds.
It’s this blatant internal awareness inside the Bear mortgage trading division that the Ambac suits says led Bear to implement an across-the-board strategy to disregard its contractual promises and conceal the defective loans….
In 2007, when Ambac started to realize something was very wrong with its high-rated bonds, it demanded Bear provide loan-level detail and reviewed 695 non-performing loans in its portfolio. Ambac’s audit concluded that 80 percent of the loans showed an early payment default….
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Bear Stearns Cos. Chairman James “Jimmy” Cayne told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that the Federal Reserve’s Primary Dealer Credit Facility, set up in March 2008 to supply emergency funding to brokerage firms, came “just about 45 minutes” too late. Without access to liquidity from the central bank, New York-based Bear Stearns had to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase & Co., ending 85 years as an independent firm. To prop up Bear Stearns while the deal could be negotiated, the Fed extended a $12.9 billion emergency loan to the firm through JPMorgan. After the deal was inked, the Fed supplied as much as $30 billion to Bear Stearns through the PDCF and single-tranche open market operations to float the firm while the takeover was pending.
Peak Amount of Debt on 3/28/2008: $30B
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U.S. citizens, who did not cheat and defraud investors by peddling toxic mortgage securities – deserve nothing less than to be granted the same access to liquidity that the Federal Reserve supplied to Bear Stearns and scores of other major banks and insurers during great financial crisis of 2007 – 2010.
The mechanism for this direct access to liquidity – a Citizens Credit Facility – via The Leviticus 25 Plan.
The Leviticus 25 Plan – An Economic Acceleration Plan for America
$90,000 per U.S. citizen – Leviticus 25 Plan 2022 (3885 downloads)