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Jeff Merkley: “Ordinary families went to their mortgage brokers. They saw on their spread sheets that they were paying their broker a…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2009
Ordinary families went to their mortgage brokers. They saw on their spread sheets that they were paying their broker a certain amount of money.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights the hidden fees in mortgage brokering affecting families.

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