Thursday, April 22, 2010

Black: Lehman Fraud, "Liar's Loans," Major Causes of Global Financial Crisis

...and regulators did nothing to stop it.

Watch this eye-opening statement by William K. Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law, as he testifies before the House Financial Services Committee:

Lehman’s failure is a story in large part of fraud. And it is fraud that begins at the absolute latest in 2001, and that is with their subprime and liars’ loan operations.

Lehman was the leading purveyor of liars’ loans in the world. For most of this decade, studies of liars’ loans show incidence of fraud of 90%. Lehmans sold this to the world, with reps and warranties that there were no such frauds. If you want to know why we have a global crisis, in large part it is before you. But it hasn’t been discussed today, amazingly.




According to Wikipedia's biography of William K. Black:
Black is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007 and previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and at Santa Clara University. Black was litigation director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the FSLIC, SVP and the General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco."

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