For the planners, we developed an elaborate package of documents.

FORBES: Bedlam

They signed 47 application and disclosure documents, affectionately known as the mortgage application package, pinky-swearing that everything they told us was true and pledging their eternal loyalty until the loan is paid back on time, in full!

FORBES: Anatomy of a Purchase Mortgage - Chapter Two

"We have a higher documentation fee because documents are not spit out of some loan production package, " says David Loundy, vice president at Devon Bank.

FORBES: Don't Call It Interest

The court documents hint at a quid pro quo: the bankers awarded Mr Grasso a whopping pay package, and in return he helped them with some of their regulatory problems.

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Court documents suggest that Mr Grasso himself had a great deal of control over the structure of his incentive package, including performance targets (which he easily exceeded).

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