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A California man and his unnamed co-conspirator netted a total of at least $5 million from thousands of homeowners, federal prosecutors said.

Also named the chairman of Home Point, the onetime single-family EVP’s latest appointment is his third in the past two years.

Mortgage applications were up for the first time in over a month, with government refinances in particular seeing a sizable bump.

The current program, which included more than 580 separate operations to buy Treasuries and 1,200 to purchase mortgage-backed securities, has dwarfed all three of the Fed’s previous quantitative-easing programs combined.

A quarter-percent increase would eliminate more than a million buyers for median-priced homes according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Some consumer protection initiatives, including those aimed at limiting overdraft charges and capping interchange fees, might have contributed to this lingering issue, a new Government Accountability Office report says.

The overall number for late payments hasn’t looked this favorable since at least 1999, according to CoreLogic’s December report.

A “small number” of the more than 3,000 workers were affected by the snafu, the company said.

The lender is cutting approximately 3,000 employees in both the U.S. and India three months after its notorious December firing.

CEO Michael Isaacs is merging a nonbank lender acquired last year with stakes in real estate and insurance firms, and has an aggressive growth plan for servicing.