Moody's Investors Service has named Warren Kornfeld, a senior credit officer in the rating agency's residential mortgage-backed securities group, to be the new head of its mortgage servicer ratings.Mr. Kornfeld replaces Linda Stesney, who has been promoted to a position as co-head of the Moody's term asset-backed securities group. She is moving up because Michael Kanef, formerly co-head of term ABS, has been named group managing director for asset finance. Moody's can be found online at http://www.moodys.com.
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Christopher J. Gallo and his aide, Mehmet A. Elmas, allegedly withheld information in mortgage applications, hiding that borrowers were purchasing second home properties.
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