[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] . Sharyl hello. Im sharyl attkisson. Welcome to full measure. This week, the ceo of wells fargo was grilled on capitol hill over a multiyear scheme that enriched the bank by illegally opening two million sham accounts without customer permission. It seems to be an ongoing theme big banks behaving badly. A few years back it was Lehman Brothers the worlds fourth largest bank until it got caught up in the mortgage crisis. Today, we hear the disturbing story of what happened to three women who worked for Lehman Brothers and were calling the crash eleven years ago. These are the allegations from their court case. Happened. Its the almighty dollar and once that comes into play, people lose all consciousness and sense of right. Sharyl what these women saw coming was the mortgage crisis that would plunge america into a deep recession in 2008. But their story starts three years earlier at bnc mortgage in sacramento, california. Starting in 2005, linda weekes noticed something fishy. She says Loan Officers from other Companies Began submitting loan applications to bnc with documents that were obviously doctored. Linda i found five in one day from the same company. Sharyl five notices that you thought fraud had been committed . Linda five loans that had falsified documentation in the loans in reference to income, Bank Statements, and job information. One of the five files, they used the same w2, just changed the information on it. Coleen colombo information was whited out and then retyped in and copied. Linda they ended up taking Bank Statements and instead of showing the actual deposit, maybe it was 1,000, it was now 11,000, or whatever they needed to do. Sharyl they didnt know it then, but it was happening nationwide. Loan officers allegedly people for loans they probably couldnt afford. Banks have conditioned us to trust them. Sharyl the story was told in the big short, a movie released last december. The whole Housing Market is propped up by these bad loans. They will fail. The Housing Market is rock solid. Its a time bomb. Sharyl when someones income is exaggerated, its not doing them a favor, because it just means theyre gonna have a house they cant really afford the payments on . Linda correct. Correct. Exactly. Sharyl it was their duty as reviewers of the loan applications to sound the alarm. To their bosses and to bncs parent company, wall street giant Lehman Brothers. Coleen we would bring it to Corporate Office attention. And they started pushing us away, telling us to quit calling them and bothering them. Sharyl Cheryl Mcneil claims in the lawsuit higherups retaliated by steering work to other employees. Cheryl mcneil i was closing, like, 25, 30 loans a month. And thats really good. When i started finding the fraud in the file and questioning it, the Branch Manager started retaliating against me. And because i was finding the fraud, then he started taking the files back slowly and giving it to another account manager. Sharyl does that affect your income . Are you cheryl it affects my income. It affects my production. Management starts lookin at me, cause my numbers are going down. Each time i complained, nothing like, its its not right. Coleen i remember, at one point, just actually thinking, why on earth . I i just cannot believe they are allowing this to happen. These people are not going to be able to make the payments on these home. This is not good for the company in the long run, its not good for the homeowners in the long run. And then it clicked, oh, they dont care. Its greed. Its the bottom lin if they closed 10 million last month, lets do 15 million this month. And if you cant do it, youre out. Sharyl too many people in the mortgage industry were getting rich off the questionable loans. The women say the more they resisted what they saw as fraud, the more insistent their superiors became. So you guys were made into the bad guy when you were actually trying to help the company and the people and flag the fraud. Coleen yes. Linda but we thought we were protectin our company by soundin the alarms. We really thought that they would embrace us and be happy and, like, oh, thank you no. Sharyl with matters coming to a head, the women allege in their complaint, bnc brought in a mysterious account manager named daniel, who began stealing their files at night, they say, and harassing them mercilessly by day. Linda he walked past my office regularly with his hands in his pocket, simulating masturbation. I thought it was all in my mind. Cheryl we didnt know what daniels role was in the office. He just walked around simulating masturbation. So one day, i remember, he just came over to my desk and he just scooted up against me, he started breathin down my neck and made sexual references to me, like, he would like to be with a black woman. Just a really, really creepy guy. Sharyl we were unable to reach daniel, whos a named defendant in the case. Lehman brothers wouldnt agree in the past, the company has said it hired an outside investigator to review the womens complaints about fraud, but found no evidence bnc employees were slipping falsified documents into loan files. In the lawsuit, weekes says a manager brushed her off her concerns about daniel. Linda i reported him. He did racial slurs to me. I reported those. And i said, this is what daniel did. And he says, oh, well, we call and he dismissed it all. Sharyl did you come to the conclusion that daniel was sent there to harass you and make you uncomfortable . Coleen yes. Sharyl so that you would leave . Coleen yes. Because when we even went to Corporate Office asking, who is this person and what is his position here . What does he do . We cant understand why he is here. And we were told, you know, basically, not to worry about it and, do your job. And close your loans. Sharyl if the goal was to make the women quit, it worked. Mcneil was first to go. Cheryl just couldnt take it anymore. You know, it wasnt a good environment, it wasnt good on my health, you know. And it was very, very stressful. Every day, you would just cry. Its cause you didnt know what was goin to be happening to you. Sharyl weekes was soon behind her after a final Close Encounter with daniel alleged in the lawsuit. Linda daniels in back of me with his hand on my shoulder, breathin down my neck, askin me can he help me and at the same time, hes pushin his genitals against my backside. Well, i lost it, because i had an immediate panic attack, immediately. And i just i thought i screamed. But they tell me i didnt. They just saw me run out of the office. Sharyl by september of 2005, six women had resigned from bnc. Linda we refused to participate. We refused to turn a blind eye. And we have a conscience. I have a conscience. Loan, i want it to be good for my company. More importantly, i want it to be good for the homeowner. And thats what got lost. Sharyl before long, the ceiling began to collapse on the mortgage industry. Certainly not all foreclosures involved fraud. But heres one example of how homeowners got in way over their heads. In 2002, this California Home sold for 301,000. In 2005, at the height of the bubble, it sold for more than double and bnc financed the records. By 2006, it was in foreclosure. Bnc had made so many bad loans, Lehman Brothers shut it down in 2007 and then filed for bankruptcy protection itself in 2008. Just like the women had feared and warned about, the chickens had come home to roost. Coleen and it was happening. And now look what its done. It was almost surreal. It was, like, this is this is really happening. Sharyl they sued Lehman Brothers claiming wrongful termination, but the bankruptcy stalled their day in court. And so the very women who worked so hard to make sure people could keep their homes lost coleen you become labeled as a whistle blower. And Mortgage Companies dont wanna hire you because youre a risk. I wasnt able to find work. And that affected my whole life. I lost everything. Cheryl i lost my apartment, i lost my car. I was unable to, you know, send my son off to college. Sharyl Gary Gwilliam is the attorney representing the women in their law it sounds like these women were unknown players in the big short . Mr. Gwilliam well, they were. But nobody paid any attention to them. Its now been over 10 years, almost 11, and their cases have languished in the largest bankruptcy in the history of the united states. Sharyl in an appearance before congress in 2008, former Lehman Brothers chairman richard fuld took responsibility for the collapse of Lehman Brothers and bnc, but denied misleading bankrupt, our economy is in a state of crisis, but you get to keep 480 million. Richard fuld i believe my Cash Compensation was close to 60 million, which you have indicated here. And i believe the amount that i took out of the company over and above that was, i believe a little bit less than 250 million, still a large number though. Sharyl today, fuld is reported to have a mansion in greenwich, connecticut, and posh digs on floridas jupiter island. His sun valley, idaho estate linda they still have their vacation homes. Nothing has been upset for them. Theyre not being punished. We have been punished. We are still being punished. So i dont see why they should get off the hook when we tried to help them. This was the most devastating thing that couldve happened to a great country such as this. It brought us to our knees. It collapsed our financial they just wrote a whole new book and have been allowed to operate out of it. So i think its unfair. Sharyl today, the country is recovering from the recession. And the women are hoping to reach a settlement with whats left of a liquidated Lehman Brothers. But life has taken a permanent turn. Coleen its devastated me. My selfesteem i used to be a very competent, resourceful, and good underwriter. And i just dont have the confidence anymore. I dont i cant remember how the strength of that person that i used to be has gone. Linda its its so devastating. And people dont really realize. But to know her before, and to know her now, and to hear her say that, its kinda painful. It its very painful. Because its so unfair. It makes no sense to us. Court, has said in the past that it denies the womens complaints and intended to fight them. So far, settlement talks in this case have been unsuccessful. Up next on full measure to stop home grown terrorists in the u. S. , scott thuman takes us to britain, where a program to deradicalize youth is showing sharyl ahma rahami, the muslim man accused of setting bombs in new york and new jersey two weeks ago, says he was inspired by Osama Bin Laden and other the father of rahami says he told the fbi two years ago he feared his son was a terrorist. This week, Homeland Security chief jeh johnson said the threat of lone wolf attacks, inspired by, but not officially linked to a terror group, keeps him up at night. A recent full measure Rasmussen Reports poll asked, can the u. S. Ever be safe from lone wolf attacks . Almost threequarters said no. To date, the terrorists are doing a better job recruitin than we are redeeming. Scott thuman traveled to england to meet one man who is making a difference. Where these young men are playing here, thats where i used to run a soccer club. Scott follow Jahan Mahmood long enough and you are bound to find yourself in, what over the years, has been a breeding ground of aspiring terrorists. Jahan the population here is predominantly muslim, more than 80 . They tend to come from areas of pakistan and kashmir. Scott on this day, he takes us hours hour north of london, and where the former military history professor does most of his work trying to deradicalize young men. Jahan i mean, in this area alone, this area at one point had the largest number of terror convictions in the country. Scott your whole goal is to stop them from getting to the point that they actually go overseas . Jahan absolutely. Scott you feel youre being successful . Jahan well, the people i do know of who ive stopped is seven. Scott like this 26year old, who, to protect his identity, were calling cameron. When it all kicked off after september 11th. Scott and you wanted to get to the battlefield . I wanted to get to the battlefield. That was the main aim. Scott to fight back to kill british, to kill americans . Of course, yeah, if thats what it would have taken, yeah. Scott thats what jahan is trying to temper. He says, in this area, where signs are often in urdu and soccer fields, roughly 40 of those living here are under 18, they are impressionable, easy targets for isis recruiters. He recalls one instance involving a handful of teens. Jahan he was watching. He had, actually on his phone, he had downloaded the beheading of ken bigley, who was a british contractor in iraq, and i was shocked to see these young men, a number of them, huddled around watching and laughing. I just couldnt understand why they would laugh over the beheading of an innocent man. It just didnt make sense. Scott the guardi claims 800 britons left the country last summer alone to fight with the terror group and just a week after our visit, four more alleged terrorists were arrested, two in this neighborhood. Who did you want to fight with . It was obviously against the west. You know, because we felt like they were destroying peoples lives. Scott you were angry against at the time. Scott do you hear a lot of that, do you hear a lot of that antiamerican sentiment . Jahan i hear it a lot. I mean i have to be honest with you is that i hear a lot of it, absolutely, and its all based on conflicts in afghanistan, iraq, and syria. Scott to counter that through meetings sometimes organized at a local mosque or at this old pool hall, jahan shows them sobering, graphic pictures of jihadists killed in battle an example of what might come of them. And he points out that the terrorists often kill innocent muslims. That was a bit of a turning point for you, when you realized that muslims were also a target of the terrorists . Yeah, definitely. It did make me think, whoa, why would i go out there . It would be stupid of me to go out there. Scott jahan says winning over even one potential jihadist can have an incalculable effect. Jahan heres a conversation i remember. Heres your car keys. Would you really hand them over to a local person . Would you really do that . And yet, youre handing your internet that youve never met before. Why would you do that . Scott but theres no perfect formula for deradicalizing and jahan could use all the allies he can get. Imams, he says, are often falling short. Jahan i do feel that religious leaders have failed in their religious duty to try and make their communities safer and theyve not been able to engage properly. Scott it is gaining the upper hand of controlling the message that will be essential to turning the tide of radicalization in britain, in europe, and in the united stat the wins will be measured by individuals, like cameron hes now 26, with a job, a wife, a child, and a future one he was on the brink of gambling away. You look back now and you think that you would have just been a number . Yeah, definitely. I would have been a number and i would have been deleted at any time. Sharyl in this process of want to kill innocent people . Scott keep in mind, they are preying on impressionable young men and they are focusing on any incident where the was the killing of an innocent or civilian muslim, say an accidental bombing at the hospital, and they point to the west and say, that is your enemy. Sharyl fascinating. Thank you, scott. Coming up, fbi director comey was called to congress this week about his email probe and we heard some surprisingly familiar questions about missing evidence. And your current security system. Protecting your home from a breakin is a bit much for ned. [ snores ] everything is a bit much for ned. For live twoway voice and 24 7 security that alerts the authorities, sharyl this week, congress questioned fbi director comey about giving five Hillary Clinton associates immunity from prosecution in her email investigation, including those allegedly involved in destroying evidence after it was subpoenaed. Earlier this month, i combed through hundreds of fbi documents and compiled a list of missing or destroyed evidence, which i read to Oversight Committee chairman jason chaffetz, whos investigating the case. Fbi had no idea if it saw key Hillary Clinton emails. Some of what they found was the clintons apple personal server she used for work email couldnt be found, an apple mac book laptop an apple macbook laptop and thumb drive containing Hillary Clintons email archives was lost. Sharyl this week, congressman John Ratcliffe used my list in questioning fbi director james comey before the house judiciary committee. Congressman ratcliffe two blackberry devices provided to fbi didnt have their sim or sd data cards. 13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded, or destroyed with a hammer, so the fbi clearly didnt examine those. Various server backups were deleted over time, so the fbi couldnt examine them. After those emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clintons email archive was also permanently deleted from the Platte River Network with bleachbit, so the fbi did not look at that. And also after the subpoena, the backups of the platte river server were manually deleted. Now, director, hopefully that list is substantially accurate because it comes from your own documents. Very long list to me says obstruction of justice. Collectively, they scream obstruction of justice. And to ignore them really allows, i think, not just reasonable prosecutors, but reasonable people to believe that maybe the decision on this was made a long time ago not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. Dir. Comey to ignore that which we dont have . Were in a factbased world. We make our evaluations based on the evidence were able to gather using the tools that we have. So its hard for me to react to these things that you dont have. So thats my reaction to it. Sharyl in defense of the fbis investigation, comey said, you can call us wrong, but dont call us weasels. Still ahead, Congress Takes a stand and overturns a president ial veto involving 9 11 victims. Who really won when we sharyl in an historic vote this week, congress overturned allowing the families of 9 11 victims to sue saudi arabia for any role in the islamic extremist terrorist attack. Its the First Time Congress has overridden president obama. He did not take the rejection well. President obama i think it was a mistake. And i understand why it happened. Sharyl president obamas that said that he vetoed the 9 11 bill because it could lead to Foreign Countries suing the u. S. In their courts. Override of the veto is a victory for the families, including terry strada, who spoke to us several times over the past year in the saudis role in financing the 9 11 attacks. Her husband died in the 9 11 attacks. He was a wonderful father, he went to work that day and never came home like thousands of people. We have also been fighting for this. We fight for our children and the futures. This is about accountability. It is a lesson i been trying to teach my children. We want to teach all of our children. Now this is coming true for them. We are going to be a to hold people accountable that were behind the 9 11 attacks. Sharyl the new law cancels Foreign Countries immunity in from american lawsuits. Now u. S. Citizens can sue foreign nations if they are found to possibly have taken part in terror attacks in the u. S. Coming up next week on full measure everyday theres a new poll to predict who will be the next president of the united states. 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