Is BofA's Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge

But a raft of evidence -- internal Bank of America memos and emails obtained by ProPublica, interviews with two bank staff members who have worked on the review, and little-noticed documents released late last year by a federal banking regulator -- throw the independence of the review into serious doubt. Together, they indicate that Bank of America -- the financial giant with the largest number of homeowners eligible for the program -- is performing much of the work itself.