Ever on the lookout for more people to jail for the housing meltdown, the FBI is now investigating the "unusually large incentives" used to get buyers to bite — incentives that weren't disclosed to lenders. The bonuses have included car payments, tuition, even cash, and could have added as much as $100k to a home's price. The practice, says investigators, would have led to our currently dire situation by artificially inflating mortgages. [WSJ]
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