The fallout from Taylor, Bean & Whitaker’s collapse in 2009 continues to haunt Ginnie Mae after a recent independent auditor’s report found a potential overstatement of the agency’s portfolio of mortgages-held-for-investment (MHFI) apparently linked to the TBW debacle.The report by Clifton Gunderson, a Fairfax, VA-based certified public accounting firm, attributes the apparent portfolio anomaly to the current document custodian’s failure to complete a review and provide a final certification on the non-performing TBW loans. Ginnie Mae repurchased the loans from the defaulted TBW mortgage-backed securities pools and reclassified them as MHFIs. Overall, independent auditors signed off on Ginnie Mae’s FY 2011 balance sheet and found no material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting or any instance of noncompliance. Auditors, however, noted ...
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