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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

'Bank Foreclosure Deal May Include State Choice on Writedowns'

from bloomberg.....

"States may get to choose individually in a possible nationwide foreclosure settlement with U.S. banks how to use any money, including whether apply funds toward principal reductions for borrowers, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said.

Including those choices may broaden support for any accord among the attorneys general who oppose requiring banks to fund principal writedowns, Olens said in an interview. He estimated that as many as 20 of his colleagues are opponents.
“While one AG may want to use it for principal writedowns, other AGs may use it for different methodologies to assist their constituents,” Olens said yesterday at meeting of state top legal officers in Chicago".................LINK

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