The scandal over global interest rates has state officials like Janet Cowell of North Carolina working intensely behind the scenes to build a case for suing the nation’s largest banks.
Ms. Cowell, the state’s elected treasurer, and several of her staff members have spent the summer combing through the state’s investments trying to determine how much the state may have lost because of suspected manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, which is used as a benchmark for trillions of dollars of financial contracts around the world.
” We think this could be as big as the mortgage crisis settlement, that this could be a really high impact situation and that we should be aggressive on this,” Ms. Cowell said, referring to the $25 billion settlement that the nation’s biggest banks entered with state attorneys general.
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The real money in this world control the stock markets, and what we call the TBTF banks. So manipulating stock markets, oil, gold & silver futures, and interest rates, is the way they do things.
The problem is will the let down to Americans be bigger? Another harder slap in the face. The crimes and the lack of the prosecution for these crimes is mind boggling and enraging.
I think the LIBOR Interest Rate Rigging, is 100% loan fraud in the inducement.
The Idea, and facts where Banks colluded to “RIG” rates effects many aspects of a Mtg Loan, its credit quality, Underwriting, Fee’s, Initial rate, Loan Margins, Loan Index and TILA, ect… .
For anyone in Foreclosure that includes a LIBOR INDEX, this defense should be enough to set aside ( among other defenses )a SJ until settlements can be reached.