The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "mortgage fraud" ...
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Borrowers Betrayed: Covering Business as a Crime Scene
This tipsheet details how a computer-assisted reporting investigation into toxic home loans turned into a crime story when in-depth analysis showed 10,000 people with criminal histories had been licensed as mortgage professionals.
Tags: mortgage; subprime; toxic loans; Florida; criminal justice; shoe-leather reporting; fraud; real estate; brokerage; stolen identity
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Uncovering Financial Traps
Tiernen addresses the financial traps that are arising the the second wave of the financial crisis. He includes information on such traps as: foreclosure services; debt settlement; subprime credit cards; payday loans; uninsured overseas savings accounts; reverse mortgages and much more.
Tags: foreclosure services; debt settlement; subprime credit cards; payday loans; uninsured overseas savings accounts; reverse mortgages; consumer credit; consumer affairs; consumer fraud
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Forensic Accounting
This tipsheet discusses forensic accounting with definitions and examples of how it can be used in investigative reporting - from clarifying issues (such as Ponzi schemes); insights into what to investigate (such as various cases of misused funds); and many others.
Tags: forensic accounting; Ponzi scheme; finance; fraud; charities; corporations; Pyramid scheme; mortgage fraud; financial analysis; data mining; Federal Rules of Evidence; economic damages; insurance loss accounting