The Justice Department (DOJ) is coming under fire in the media following the release of an inspector general’s report [PDF] that found the nation’s top law enforcement agency, while insisting otherwise, had relegated the prosecution of mortgage fraud cases to the very bottom of its to-do lists, and had erred in collecting and reporting important data when it actually did open investigations.
Entities including the FBI, the U.S. attorneys’ office, the Justice Department’ criminal and civil divisions and the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force all took hits in the report—which is titled “Audit of the Department of Justice’s Efforts to Address Mortgage Fraud” and covers the period from 2009 to 2011—for failing to investigate mortgage fraud to the degree officials claimed.
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