re: Judge slaps Mueller AGAIN

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He forged documents to show he had higher income than he did,

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Just described how lending to the self employed get mortgage loans

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he forged documents to indicate a loan was paid off when it wasn't, or that a property didn't have a mortgage when it did. There are paper trails on all of this including the infamous - can you covert this to a word doc for me rick? email.

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On the forged documents that showed a loan was paid off, that could be slightly problematic, but the underwriter and loan officer is required to do the due diligence on all of this. If there was a mortgage, this is on the bank and the bank solely. Most banks are going to employ abstractors, etc, to comb the documents in the clerk's office. Now, if he had a mortgage under private signature (really dumb) that could be problem. Even if this was a commercial loan covered under UCC, there is a due diligence by the lending institution that would pick this up.

I would say that those that signed off on these loans have more legal liability than Manafort. Manafort has more exposure on the tax front