Battle Line forming in Clash Over Foreclosures
October 20, 2010 By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and ANDREW MARTIN About a month after Washington Mutual Bank made a multimillion-dollar mortgage loan on a mountain home near Santa Barbara, Calif., a crucial piece of paperwork disappeared. But bank officials were unperturbed. After conducting a “due and diligent search,” an assistant vice president simply drew up an […]