Mississippi Business Journal » Tom Miller http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 FORECLOSURE SETTLEMENT — AG concedes legislators likely to decide where $14.1M goes http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/26/foreclosure-settlement-%e2%80%94-ag-concedes-legislators-likely-to-decide-where-14-1m-goes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foreclosure-settlement-%25e2%2580%2594-ag-concedes-legislators-likely-to-decide-where-14-1m-goes http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/26/foreclosure-settlement-%e2%80%94-ag-concedes-legislators-likely-to-decide-where-14-1m-goes/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:01:39 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=52919 Mississippi legislators will be the deciders in how to use a $14.2 million direct payment from a $25 billion national mortgage fraud settlement. Attorney General Jim Hood hopes legislators will allocate the money for such things as housing counseling, mortgage-education efforts and for programs to guide victimized homeowners through the settlement process. He concedes, however, [...]

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