The government agency established to be the watchdog over the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has been keeping busy. The financial crisis of 2008 resulted in the disbursement of over $400 billion of TARP funds which requires government oversight. In order to prevent waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer funded TARP disbursements, Congress created the […]
Billon Dollar Bank Failure Caused By “Massive Bank Fraud” At Bank of the Commonwealth
April 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
Four years after the start of the banking crisis, federal investigators are proving what many Americans have long suspected – the root cause of many banking failures was due to fraud. The Office of the Special Inspector General for The Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) announced last week that a massive $41 million bank fraud […]