{"id":269,"date":"2010-06-16T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2010\/06\/tarp_fraud_and_other_violation.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:47:56","slug":"tarp_fraud_and_other_violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/tarp_fraud_and_other_violation\/","title":{"rendered":"TARP Fraud and Other Violations Alleged by SEC Against Chairman of Major Mortgage Lender"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we have written previously, the billions of “bailout” dollars to financial institutions through the TARP program <\/a>inevitably would result in many fraud cases, including some by TARP whistleblowers. <\/p>\n

Today, the SEC announced allegations of TARP fraud and securities fraud of more than $1.5 billion other violations against Lee B. Farkas, through his company Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. (TBW).<\/p>\n

According to the SEC, Farkas “sold more than $1.5 billion worth of fabricated or impaired mortgage loans and securities to Colonial Bank. Those loans and securities were falsely reported to the investing public as high-quality, liquid assets. Farkas also was responsible for a bogus equity investment that caused Colonial Bank to misrepresent that it had satisfied a prerequisite necessary to qualify for TARP funds. When Colonial Bank’s parent company – Colonial BancGroup, Inc. – issued a press release announcing it had obtained preliminary approval to receive $550 million in TARP funds, its stock price jumped 54 percent in the remaining two hours of trading, representing its largest one-day price increase since 1983.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps the SEC is showing a new attitude after the Madoff debacle. Whistleblowers should soon be able to participate in the new SEC whistleblower program<\/a>, which is part of the financial reform legislation now being hashed out in conference committee.<\/p>\n

The SEC’s full release is reprinted below:
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