Cape Cod considers a mansion tax, Baltimore considers raising taxes on vacant lots, and a retail chain will not consider opening stores in California. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Aug. 18-22. Miss: Soaking...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: The official duties of the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) involves the regulation of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the 11 Federal Home Loan Banks. It is not a law enforcement job, nor does this position involve choosing who...
A New York appeals court voided the more than half-million-dollar fraud judgment enacted against President Trump and the Trump Organization, but kept in place the lower court decision that Trump and his company engaged in valuation fraud when obtaining loans for their...
New York Attorney General Letitia James has been subpoenaed by the US Attorney’s Office in Albany as part of a grand jury probe into her $454 million civil fraud case against President Trump. James, who first campaigned for office in 2018 vowing to make Trump a target...
A coalition of Senate Republicans have introduced the Law Enforcement Tools to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes (LETITIA) Act, which is designed public officials accountable if they are found to have enriched themselves through federal bank fraud, tax fraud,...