Residential real estate mergers rise amidst antitrust concerns, impacting market competition and federal regulation review.

Asked several times on whether DOGE has sent any fraud referrals to the Justice Department, President Donald Trump said, “Have there been? Yes, there have.” ...

A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back against claims of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration.

Mortgage-making giant Rocket Cos. is acquiring mortgage-servicing behemoth Mr. Cooper Group in an all-stock, $9.4 billion deal. There are the usual synergies of combining companies mostly in the ...

It comes as the New York Attorney General was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on Tuesday. “Tish [Letitia], is now under investigation by the justice ...

For weeks, it seemed as though the Department of Justice was notably absent from this changing landscape. On April 8, however, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memo to all DOJ employe ...

urging it to investigate Letitia James--in light of a criminal referral to the DOJ. James is alleged to have committed mortgage fraud by falsifying documents on two property mortgages--one in ...

Rocket Mortgage is offering a lender credit program that converts a renter's monthly payments into funds to use toward buying a home. Renters who take out a home purchase mortgage through Rocket ...

A US government agency has asked for a criminal probe of New York State Attorney General Letitia James, one of President ...

Editor’s note: In March 2025, Rocket Mortgage announced a “definitive agreement” to acquire the lender Mr. Cooper. The combined company will include leadership from both Rocket and Mr. Cooper.

sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking it to look into its claims that James falsified documents and records to obtain favorable mortgage terms on as many three occasions, dating back ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department against ... VA property purchase and mortgage, Ms. James was the siting Attorney General of New ...