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On the recordJune 16, 2010
Please allow me to update my colleagues and citizens across the country on some recent news about Goldman Sachs, one of the white shoe Wall Street outfits that got bailed out by the American taxpayer 2 years ago. We've learned that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice are looking into Goldman Sachs, but there is more you should know. Today, it was revealed that this privileged firm also wholly owned a mortgage servicing company back from 2007. So it claims it had no knowledge of the housing meltdown, but in fact, it owned a loan servicing company. Back in 2007, Goldman Sachs scooped up Litton Loan Servicing in Houston, Texas. Litton specialized in collecting money from borrowers in California and Florida. Goldman now services around 320,000 loans worth around $50 billion according to the Financial Times. Litton does not seem to be quite on the up-and-up. In fact, it was just recently forced to settle a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles for over half a million dollars, and the Financial Times reports that the Better Business Bureau has listed almost 800 complaints on Litton. Worse, Litton has only put up about 29 percent of their loans into permanent modifications, leaving the rest of the consumers who tried to get one trying to find money to make up the difference they immediately owe Litton, and oh, of course, then they will owe the accrued late fees. Goldman Sachs says little about this, of course.…
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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Kaptur addresses concerns regarding Goldman Sachs' involvement in mortgage servicing and related legal issues.

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