Oakland & Ingham Counties sue Fannie & Freddie for dodging taxes
Kathleen Gray & John Wisely, Detroit Free Press In a new wrinkle to Michigan’s foreclosure crisis, two counties say they and the state’s public schools lost tens of millions of dollars because home-mortgage lenders — especially government-backed giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae — have avoided paying the state’s property-transfer tax. The tax — $8.60 […]