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Addicted Lineage II Gamer Sues NCSoft Cause He Can’t Fuction

Massively multiplayer online game developer/publisher NCSoft is facing a negligence lawsuit from one Craig Smallwood, a Hawaiian gamer who claims the addictive nature of MMORPG Lineage II has rendered him “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing, or communicating with family & friends”

…plaintiff and other players of Lineage II of its dangerous and defective characteristics, and of the safe and proper method of using the game.” Smallwood also alleges that, if he was warned of the addictive nature of Lineage II, he would never have begun playing the game in the first place….

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Addicted Lineage II Gamer Sues NCSoft Cause He Can’t Fuction

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Whistleblower: Fannie Mae Bungled Anti-Foreclosure Program

Fannie Mae executives bungled their stewardship of the federal government’s massive foreclosure-prevention campaign, creating a bureaucratic muddle characterized by “mismanagement and gross waste of public funds,” according to a whistleblower lawsuit by a former Fannie Mae executive and consultant.

…In testimony before a Senate subcommittee in late April, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that his department had made improvements that will allow HAMP to reach more at-risk homeowners. He promised to get tougher on servicers who haven’t held up their end of the bargain, saying that his department was troubled by reports that servicers have foreclosed on potentially eligible homeowners and are not responding to the needs increasingly desperate homeowners.

Insider’s Account of What Happened with HAMP

Amid all the public concern, Caroline Herron’s lawsuit provides something that is exceptional: an account from a former insider who is willing to tell her version of what was going on behind closed doors within the government’s mortgage-assistance program. Herron declined to comment for this article, but her claims are laid out in detail in her 39-page legal complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Herron worked at Fannie Mae from 2000 to 2007. In her last 16 months there, she served as…

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Whistleblower: Fannie Mae Bungled Anti-Foreclosure Program

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