Sen. Dick Durbin

Public protections against fraud hang in the balance over the upcoming SEC budget battle.

Via Patrick.net, here’s more about how some banks abandoned their foreclosed properties and left innocent neighbors to deal with the blight. And no, this isn’t just happening in Cleveland. In Petaluma, Calif.,  one neighbor got so fed up fighting with Bank of America– for two years — to clean up the abandoned home next door [...]