Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes to Foreclosure Due to Computer Glitch

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Hundreds of people mistakenly had their homes foreclosed upon because Wells Fargo software incorrectly denied them mortgage modifications, the bank indicated in published reports. . .

The revelation happened this week through a regulatory filing by the bank, reports stated. Wells Fargo also indicated it has set aside $8 million to compensate customers affected by the so-called glitch. . .

According to reports, Wells Fargo stated that a computer error affected certain accounts that were in the foreclosure process between April 2010 and October 2015. Then the issue was reportedly corrected.

In all, an estimated 625 customers were incorrectly denied a loan modification or were not offered one even though they were qualified, the report stated. About 400 customers had their homes foreclosed upon. . .

In June, the federal Securities and Exchange Commission accused the bank of “using complex financial investments to take advantage of mom-and-pop investors,” according to CNN. Wells Fargo has reportedly neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s allegations and is cooperating with the investigation. (Read more from “Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes to Foreclosure Due to Computer Glitch” HERE)

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At Least 40 Shot in U.S. City in One Day

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The Chicago Police Department reports that at least 40 people have been shot today in the city in what appears to be a barrage of gang-related activities. The total number of people shot this weekend is currently at 59 with 10 fatalities.

“We know that some of these incidents were targeted and are related to gang conflicts in those areas,” said Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller said Sunday afternoon.

As reported by ABC7, police “said a group of people, three teens and five adults, were standing in a courtyard in the 1300-block of West 76th Street at about 12:40 a.m. when several people approached on foot and opened fire at the group. The victims range in age from 14-years-old to 35 years-old.” This attack in the Gresham neighborhood left all eight people severely wounded.

Other victims from shootings across the windy city include an 11-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl, and a “32-year-old man who was shot four times and was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital.”

More than 4,000 people were shot in Chicago in 2016. This led President Trump to declare that he would send in the federal government to fix the problem if Chicago’s city government was unable to handle it. (Read more from “At Least 40 Shot in U.S. City in One Day” HERE)

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Just Released: Here’s What the FBI Is Hiding About Christopher Steele

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By The Daily Caller. The FBI released its internal records on Christopher Steele, the former British spy behind the controversial “Russia dossier.”

One problem: Nearly every page has been redacted.

The total records, made public Friday, span 71 pages and contains various documents showing payments to Steele, who is referred to as a “Confidential Human Source,” over an unlisted period of time.

While most of the documents are nearly completely redacted, they do show that in February 2016 the FBI had “admonished” Steele. (Read more from “Just Released: Here’s What the Fbi Is Hiding About Christopher Steele” HERE)

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FBI Paid Dossier Author Christopher Steele, Heavily Redacted Documents Show

By RT. The FBI has released 70 pages of documents related to contacts with British spy Christopher Steele, author of the notorious Trump-Russia dossier. Though almost entirely whited out, the documents still show FBI paid Steele.

The documents were released on Friday after the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch sued to get access to them under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The release consists of fifteen FD-1023 source reports, thirteen FD-209a contact reports, eleven FD-794b payment requests, a FD-1040a document severing the bureau’s relationship with Steele, and a FD-1057 form showing Steele was “verbally admonished” by the FBI for an unspecified transgression.

Perhaps the most puzzling document is the FD-1057, noting that Steele was “admonished” by a FBI handler for an unspecified infraction. That document is dated February 2, 2016. Yet Fusion GPS would not hire Steele to compile a dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump until June, according to media reports that have not been denied by the FBI or Fusion executives.

“The anti-Trump Russia ‘investigation’ had Christopher Steele at its center and his misconduct was no impediment to using information from his Russia intelligence collaborators to spy on the Trump team,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said on Friday. “The corruption and abuse is astonishing.”

The documents, while almost a “literal whitewash,’ align with the claims by US President Donald Trump and his supporters that the FBI’s Russia investigation was politically motivated, journalist Max Blumenthal told RT. (Read more from “FBI Paid Dossier Author Christopher Steele, Heavily Redacted Documents Show” HERE) (Editor’s note: “RT News” is a Russian government-funded website).

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Levin Tells Trump What He Should Tell Mueller — Scorching Hot

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Thursday evening on “Hannity,” LevinTV host Mark Levin told Sean Hannity exactly what President Donald Trump should tell special counsel Robert Mueller, if Mueller insists on meeting with the president.

Levin highlighted the hypocrisy of the Paul Manafort trial, which Hannity noted was nothing more than a “cheap” attempt to get the president in court.

“If [Manafort] did all these things … during the Obama administration, who was the FBI director? Mueller. Mueller was the FBI director, he did nothing about it, apparently.” Levin said.

“Let me tell you something, Mr. Mueller, you’re not the king of the universe,” Levin said.

Levin explained that Mueller’s investigation is not about wanting justice, it’s about wanting to take down Trump.

“I hope the president’s lawyers are listening to me, and the president, right now. Here’s what you should tell Mr. Mueller: have a meeting with him and tell him, you’re unconstitutional under the Appointments Clause, what you’re doing is unconstitutional as far as we are concerned, we are not going to bow to you, this is the office of the President of the United States, you are a rogue prosecutor, now get the hell out of my office and make sure the door doesn’t hit you in the ass. I’ll see you in court. That’s the beginning and the end of it, as far as I’m concerned,” Levin said. (For more from the author of “Levin Tells Trump What He Should Tell Mueller — Scorching Hot” please click HERE)

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Las Vegas Police Reveal “New” Shooting Details

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It’s been almost a year since Stephen Paddock checked into the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas and committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Over the course of a week, Paddock is seen on multiple security cameras leaving and returning with multiple bags at Mandalay. We now know they were filled with ammunition and additional firearms. He carried a total of 21 bags into his room. Two-dozen firearms were recovered from his 32ndfloor room, with some equipped with bump stocks that mimic automatic fire. On October 1, 2017, he opened fire on attendees at the nearby Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival across the street from the hotel, killing 58 people and wounding over 400 more. It was an act of unspeakable evil, one that wouldn’t have been stopped by any of the gun control proposals Democrats have been pushing for years. . .

More than 10 months after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police say they are closing their investigation without answering the key question: What drove a gunman to unleash a hail of gunfire that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more?

But authorities say after hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of investigative work, they are confident there is no evidence of a conspiracy or a second gunman

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Stephen Paddock was “an unremarkable man” who showed signs of a troubled mind leading up to the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, but authorities don’t have any clear answers.

Lombardo said that with the closure of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s 10-month investigation, no one else will be charged in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

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Choke on It, Liberals: U.S. Regains Rank as the World’s Most Competitive Economy

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Oh, it’s a good day for sure. Ever since the Trump tax cuts became law, the U.S. economy has been booming. Second quarter growth reached four percent; wages for U.S. workers reached their highest levels in a decade. Unemployment is at an 18-year low, with confidence levels from the small business community and consumers reaching their highest marks in years. Over three million jobs have been created. There are now more jobs than there are job seekers, though in CNN-land—everything is on fire. That’s not the case. Real Americans see this; it’s overreach. Well, the jacked up economy has yielded another positive. It’s allowed the U.S. to regain its spot as the number one competitive economy in the world (via Bloomberg):

The U.S. dethroned Hong Kong to retake first place among the world’s most competitive economies, thanks to faster economic growth and a supportive atmosphere for scientific and technological innovation, according to annual rankings by the Switzerland-based IMD World Competitiveness Center.

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Drowning in Debt: These States Are Approaching a Point of No Return

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By Townhall. Having grown up in New Jersey, you understand that Democrats are a tax and spend party and even liberals in the state understand it. The Garden State is a case study in mass exodus; it’s just too expensive to live there anymore. Are there signs that the Democrats get it? Maybe—the heavily Democratic legislature in Trenton had to tell Governor Phil Murphy that his tax increase agenda was more or less not going to happen. Taxes still went up, but it was not the insane proposal the governor’s office had pushed. Still, I doubt Demorats in these states will find rational solution to their fiscal woes. After decades of irresponsibility, these states are approaching a day of reckoning. It’s the usual blue state madness crew: New Jersey, New York, Illinois, and California. For some, pension payments are a struggle (via Fox Business):

Connecticut may be the richest state in the country, on a per capita basis, but it’s racked up a sizable debt worth more than $53 billion – and it could be taxpayers who are forced to bail out the Constitution State, according to the former governor of Indiana.

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And Connecticut isn’t the only state struggling with a debt crisis: California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York are unable to make pension payments to retired government workers.

(Read more from “Drowning in Debt: These States Are Approaching a Point of No Return” HERE)

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These American States are Drowning in ‘Irretrievable’ Debt

By Fox Business. Connecticut may be the richest state in the country, on a per capita basis, but it’s racked up a sizable debt worth more than $53 billion – and it could be taxpayers who are forced to bail out the Constitution State, according to the former governor of Indiana.

“Someone’s going to the barbershop,” Mitch Daniels, a Republican, said during an interview with FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on Thursday. “The first will be the taxpayers, already beleaguered in some of these states.” . . .

In Illinois, for instance, vendors wait months to be paid by a government that’s $30 billion in debt, and one whose bonds are just one notch above junk bond status, according to Daniels. New York’s more than $356 billion in debt; New Jersey more than $104 billion; and California more than $428 billion.

“They’re just one of a number of states, including some of the biggest states, that are in deep water,” Daniels said. “I think it is irretrievable. Pensions is the core of it. It’s not the only fiscal recklessness that they have practiced, but in some of those cases, the bill are genuinely unpayable.” (Read more from “These American States are Drowning in ‘Irretrievable’ Debt” HERE)

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New York Times Defends Writer After Incredibly Racist Tweets Surface

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The New York Times is standing by its hiring of tech writer Sarah Jeong despite several derogatory tweets of hers aimed at white people, which were recently unearthed on her Twitter account. . .

Social media reactions first flared on Wednesday with images of incendiary tweets from an unverified Twitter account that looked to belong to Jeong. They surfaced shortly after The Times announced she was joining the paper. The Times issued a statement on Thursday declaring that it had reviewed her social media history during the hiring process and was standing by the decision to bring her aboard.

“We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done … her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” The Times said in a statement. “She regrets it, and The Times does not condone it.”

The paper said it had “candid conversations” with Jeong during the interview process that included a “thorough vetting” and review of her social media history. The Times said it is “confident that she will be an important voice for the editorial board moving forward.”

Jeong’s Twitter feed is filled with a host of messages that could be construed as racist and offensive. Jeong compared “dumbass f—–g white people” to dogs, said that “old white men” were “lemmings,” opined that white people would “go extinct soon,” and used the hashtag #CancelWhitePeople. (Read more from “New York Times Defends Writer After Incredibly Racist Tweets Surface” HERE)

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Unreliable Sources? New Jim Jordan ‘Scandal’ Story Doesn’t Hold up

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You may have thought that the abuse “scandal” that broke over Independence Day weekend about Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was already dead. Guess again.

The stories at NBC and New York Magazine focus on text messages sent to Dunyasha Yetts and Mike Disabato, who both wrestled at Ohio State during Jordan’s tenure as an assistant coach, from Russ Hellickson – a former Olympic silver medalist who was head wrestling coach at the time. The accusers claim that Hellickson tried to pressure them to recant their stories, and that he was under pressure from Jordan to do so.

The first lesson is that you never want to send any written communication, whether it be text, email, or social media direct message, that you wouldn’t want on the front page of your local paper or read aloud in a deposition. After all, it just might.

But let’s get back to business and take a look at the evidence, shall we?

In the only message that was shown in screenshot, Hellickson responds to a long text from Yetts by saying that he was sorry that his former wrestler “got caught up in this media train.”

“If you think the story got told wrong about Jim,” the messages continue, “you could probably write a statement for release that tells your story and corrects what you feel bad about.”

Later, a text from Hellickson reads, “Do not talk to any media. People will call you to convince you I said to talk. No no no[.]” Look, that’s crisis communications 101 and about as surprising as the headline “Dog Wags Tail.”

The screenshots can be viewed here.

As far as Hellickson saying that he was under pressure to get accusers to recant? You know, the actual “story” part of the story? Those allegedly took place in a phone call that happened later, so it hinges completely on whether or not the reader trusts the accusers in the first place.

And thus, we’re back to the initial problem with this whole scandal: The two accusers at the root of all this do not appear to be trustworthy, as Chris Pandolfo and I explained when this whole thing started.

Of course, the New York Magazine story pre-empts this in Yetts’ case with the following:

Yetts said that after he declined to take back his allegations, Jordan’s allies began attacking him for his admission that he served 18 months in prison for bilking investors.

Well yeah, if you’ve gone to jail on felony charges for lying to people in order to get their money, that sort of thing is going to bring your credibility into question. Just like if someone has a troubled history with the accused’s family that includes sending a widow a picture of her husband’s killer over a business dispute, or just a long history of litigation surrounding business deals gone bad.

The accusations against Jordan remain unconfirmed and haven’t passed the sniff test since they originated last month. And despite the smears that followed on the heels of his speaker run announcement, and despite these latest reports, and despite the highest hopes of those who would politically benefit from Jordan’s downfall, they still don’t. (For more from the author of “Unreliable Sources? New Jim Jordan ‘Scandal’ Story Doesn’t Hold up” please click HERE)

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Swamp: Guess Who Set up Andrew Mccabe’s Legal Fund?

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. . .As Guy wrote, fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe raked in more than $500,000 from leftist sympathizers this week after setting up a legal fund and blasting President Trump. As a reminder, McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and the DOJ Inspector General recommended he be terminated for a lack of candor.

But it turns out, McCabe’s pay day wasn’t a result of a grassroots effort to defend him against false attacks. The GoFundMe page was set up by a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm connected to President Barack Obama. From Law & Crime (bolding is mine):

The Bromwich Group is a K Street consulting and PR firm headed by Michael R. Bromwich. Immediately prior to founding the firm, Bromwich served as the first director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management under President Barack Obama.

On March 29, Schwartz sanctioned the official GoFundMe campaign by tweeting, “Correct. We launched the official campaign today.” Later that same day, in response to suspicion about the veracity of the fundraiser, she tweeted, “That is the official campaign we launched today.” (Notably, Schwartz is also the person who issued the Monday statement announcing the legal defense fund would stop accepting donations–after repeatedly shifting its initial $150,000 goal upwards.)

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Over the weekend McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post claiming her husband never used official resources to support her campaign for the Virginia Senate. McCabe in fact did use his official FBI email to ask fellow agents for support. (Read more from “Swamp: Guess Who Set up Andrew Mccabe’s Legal Fund?” HERE)

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