The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

And in one such skinny file was the data for a second home loan to O.J. This was long after both the criminal and civil trials following the murder of Nicole Simpson had run their courses. So when WaMu’s chief legal officer, Fay Chapman, saw the loan, she flipped out, knowing Simpson had a $33.5 million judgment against him and couldn’t possibly afford to buy property. “When I asked how we could possibly foreclose on [the loan], they said there was a letter in the file from O. J. Simpson,” she said. The letter read: the judgment is no good, because I didn’t do it