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A Former Chase Banker Speaks, With Regret Over Mortgage Fraud And Resulting CrisisQuicklink submitted by Amanda Lang Permalink |
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 Chase banker thinks it is profoundly unfair that troubled banks have been rescued while troubled homeowners have been evicted. by Digitart for Flickr |
'You've got somebody making $20,000 buying a $500,000 home, thinking that she'd flip it,' he said. 'That was crazy, but the banks put programs together to make those kinds of loans.' Especially when mortgages were securitized and sold off to investors, he said, senior bankers turned a blind eye to shortcuts. 'The bigwigs of the corporations knew this, but they figured we're going to make billions out of it, so who cares? The government is going to bail us out. And the problem loans will be out of here, maybe even overseas.' One memory particularly troubles Theckston. He says that some account executives earned a commission seven times higher from subprime loans, rather than prime mortgages. So they looked for less savvy borrowers -- those with less education, without previous mortgage experience, or without fluent English -- and nudged them toward subprime loans. |
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