Probe Examining Fannie's Promises
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Fannie Mae chief executive Franklin D. Raines invited reporters to his Wisconsin Avenue headquarters a year ago to complain good-naturedly that recent disclosures of accounting manipulations at smaller rival Freddie Mac had unjustly hurt his company.
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New Century Financial Corp.  on Tuesday said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the subprime mortgage lender, after the agency recently asked to meet with management to discuss its accounting.
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Description: Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest source of financing for home mortgages, faces accusations of pervasive accounting problems.
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The inspector general's office at the Department of Housing and Urban Development yesterday declined to release the results of an investigation of the HUD agency that regulates mortgage-funding giant Fannie Mae, saying that such disclosure could "interfere with enforcement proceedings."
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Fannie Mae, the largest US mortgage finance company, will be the subject of an Oct. 6 hearing by the House Financial Services Committee over its accounting and management, said Representative Richard Baker, a Louisiana Republican.
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The Justice Department has started a criminal investigation of Fannie Mae in response to a report accusing executives of sloppy accounting practices.
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Though Fannie Mae said it was cooperating fully with a federal examination of its accounting, its regulator says the mortgage finance company was so reluctant that the agency had to subpoena documents and witnesses and ask the Justice Department for help enforcing subpoenas.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has launched an investigation into the business practices of the nation's biggest mortgage lender and said yesterday that the office may expand its probe into how homeowners were approved for mortgages far beyond their means.
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Federal regulators, who are negotiating an agreement with the Fannie Mae board, have raised the possibility of removing the mortgage giant&#39;s management as the company acts to correct serious accounting problems detailed in a new report.
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Home mortgage lender Fannie Mae on Wednesday said the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight uncovered accounting inaccuracies that raise doubts about the company&#39;s previous financial reports.
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The Justice Department has opened an investigation of possible accounting fraud at Fannie Mae, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, after a federal regulator said the mortgage giant may have manipulated its earnings targets.
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A long running regulatory examination of Fannie Mae has found accounting and other problems at the giant government-chartered mortgage company that raise doubts about &quot;the quality of
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Bonds of Fannie Mae, the biggest US mortgage buyer, may fall after the Wall Street Journal said the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into possible accounting fraud at the company.
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Mortgage giant Fannie Mae, under investigation by regulators and ordered to revamp its accounting, may have to restate its past earnings, a federal agency said Thursday.
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Fannie Mae, accused by regulators of manipulating earnings, said yesterday that the Justice Department has asked it to preserve records relating to its accounting practices as part of a criminal investigation.
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The New York attorney general subpoenaed mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yesterday as he sought to expand his housing industry investigation by focusing on companies that package house loans and sell them to investors.
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Pity that Fannie's management decided to test the limits of an implied Federal guarantee.