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Feds: Proposed private bailout for failed Colonial Bank was part of a $1.9 billion fraud

Lee Farkas, the former chairman and majority owner of Ocala-based Taylor Bean, was indicted Tuesday in Alexandria,…Source: Everything Alabama

Colonial Bank died of real estate gluttony, says FDIC

The report also shed little light on Colonial’s murky relationship with Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, a defunct Florida mortgage broker. On Aug. 4, federal investigators raided Colonial’s mortgage division in Orlando, Fla. , and Taylor, Bean’s headquarters…Source: Everything Alabama