CBS' 60 Minutes On World Savings' Whistleblower

CBS' 60 Minutes ran a story last Sunday night featuring the story of Paul Bishop, a plainspoken former loan salesman who is blowing the whistle on his former employer, one-time subprime lending giant World Savings, about the kinds of loans they were making to homeowners who couldn't afford to repay, and how they went about making the loans. While working at World, he reportedly told executives what they didn't want to hear about three years before the real estate market exploded. According to him, they responded by canning him. He has since filed a lawsuit against them. He now tells his story to 60 Minutes.

For the report (13+ minutes), see World of Trouble (read story) (watch video).

For an interview last Monday on the CBS' News: The Early Show, (about 5 minutes), see Mortgage Whistleblower.

For the initial report on this story from KPIX-TV Channel 5 in May, 2008, when Bishop first filed his lawsuit against World Savings, see Oakland Bank's Lending Sparks Ex-Employee Lawsuit (read story) (watch video).

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