BRIEFCASE STATE ORDERS FIRM TO OBEY ALL LAWS.Byline: - Staff and Wire ReportsGLENDALE - The state ordered a New York-based mortgage lender with a branch in Glendale to cease ``engaging in unsafe and injurious in·ju·ri·ous adj. 1. Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful: eating habits that are injurious to one's health. 2. practices'' and to stop violating a California mortgage lending law, officials said Friday. The Department of Corporations reported taking the action against Brooklyn-based Olympia Mortgage Corp. The state of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of suspended the firm's mortgage banker Mortgage Banker A company, individual or institution that originates, sells and services mortgage loans. Notes: Don't confuse a mortgage banker with a mortgage broker. license for 30 days, effective Oct. 28, for diverting mortgage payments and proceeds on at least 270 loans totaling $35 million. That opened the legal door to California. The California Residential Mortgage Lending Act authorizes the Department of Corporations to take action against the licensee in California, officials said. Besides ordering the company to stop violating California law, the Corporations Department ordered Olympia Mortgage to establish immediately separate trust accounts for California borrowers. Business center for serve women SANTA CLARITA - The Valley Economic Development Center announced Friday that it will open a Women's Business Center, seeking to bring consulting and lending services to female entrepreneurs. Funded with a five-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the center will open Monday and begin holding workshops on marketing, financing and business planning Nov. 30. Sponsored by the Van Nuys-based VEDC VEDC Valley Economic Development Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA) , the center will operate from the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Worksource Center at 21515 Soledad Canyon Road, Suite 121, and serve the Santa Clarita, Antelope and San Fernando valleys. Witness: No cause for Ovitz dismissal GEORGETOWN, Del. - The Walt Disney Co.'s board of directors had no reason to fire Michael Ovitz, Disney's ex-president, ``for cause'' and thus granted him a nonfault termination when he left the company in December 1996, a former director testified in a high-profile shareholder lawsuit here Friday. In his third day on the stand, Irwin Russell said Sanford M. Litvack, the entertainment giant's chief of corporate operations, advised the board in January 1997 that Ovitz couldn't have been fired for cause under the definition in his contract. The employment agreement only allowed Ovitz to be fired for cause if he committed gross negligence An indifference to, and a blatant violation of, a legal duty with respect to the rights of others. Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or or malfeasance The commission of an act that is unequivocally illegal or completely wrongful. Malfeasance is a comprehensive term used in both civil and Criminal Law to describe any act that is wrongful. . Verizon expanding cellular capacity NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is buying cellular capacity for 23 markets from bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. for $3 billion, ending the government's long tug-of-war over the never-used licenses and bolstering Verizon against a big new rival created by the merger of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless. The deal announced Friday gives Verizon Wireless big chunks of additional capacity to handle a growing subscriber base in key markets where it already has its own network, including Los Angeles, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Boston and Washington. |
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