Case File
Financial Home Invasion
- In this episode of American Greed … Lee Farkas was a fast talker and a master manipulator. The high-flying mortgage mogul was once the owner of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, at the time one of the largest privately held mortgage-lending companies in the U.S. But Farkas was a con man. For more than a decade he peddled fake loans and looted his company leaving thousands of innocent homeowners to live mortgage nightmares. His lies led to one of the largest bank failures in U.S. history.
- American Greed reveals the inner workings of a $3.5 billion mortgage scam!