Freddie Mac Says Its Loss From Taylor Bean May Be ‘Significant’ (FRE; FNM)

From Bloomberg:

Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance company under government control being supported by taxpayers, said the collapse of lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. may cause it “significant” losses.

Taylor Bean, the 12th-largest U.S. mortgage originator, shuttered its lending business last week after being suspended by U.S. agencies and Freddie Mac. The Federal Housing Administration cited possible financial-statement fraud.

The Ocala, Florida-based lender accounted for about 5.2 percent of Freddie Mac’s single-family mortgage purchases last year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the McLean, Virginia-based company on Aug. 7. Freddie Mac can force lenders to repurchase defaulted loans that weren’t of the credit quality they represented, a use of its contracts already made harder by the collapses of IndyMac Bancorp., Washington Mutual Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the company said....MORE