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Mortgage Fraud, 'Reckless Endangerment' and Public Trust

The housing crisis is anything but over, with banks still foreclosing on millions of properties while prosecutors investigate lenders for fraud...

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By Warren Olney • May 25, 2011 • 50m Listen

The housing crisis is anything but over, with banks still foreclosing on millions of properties while prosecutors investigate lenders for fraud. Would criminal convictions restore public confidence or is it too little too late? Also, President Obama addresses Britain's Parliament. On Reporter's Notebook, Paul Ryan's budget plan was supposed to perpetuate Republican dominance in Congress, but was it the Medicare provision that turned the tables for a Democrat in upstate New York?

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    former KCRW broadcaster

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