{"id":14,"date":"2020-06-27T22:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:38:25","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"About the author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ms. O\u2019Toole was the Homeownership (HOC) \/ Executive Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) managing 175 staff and five (5) distinct divisions, including FHA mortgages, Real Estate (HUD Homes), Operations, Quality Assurance Lender Oversight and Fraud Investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"page:f8880513-2c39-44c4-b6b7-b2f2b8613628\">She began her HUD career as the Quality Assurance Director, ensuring compliance with FHA<\/a>. She began her HUD career as the Quality Assurance Director, ensuring compliance with FHA mortgage rules and regulations, \u00a0responsible for stopping fraud, waste and abuse of FHA government programs, and protecting consumer rights.<br><br>In 2008 Ms. O\u2019Toole was awarded one of HUD\u2019s highest awards, the prestigious Secretary\u2019s Award, for her development of Compliance and Monitoring Training and Internal Quality Controls to prevent fraud and waste and prevent losses to the FHA fund.<br><br>In 2005, Ms. O\u2019Toole received awards for the development of \u00a0the new Real Estate Brokers Outreach Program (REBOP) to extend outreach, education and training to the Real Estate Brokerage community pertaining to new FHA loan products and programs.<br><br>Prior to joining HUD, \u00a0Ms. O\u2019Toole was Department Head of Real Estate for FDIC and RTC, resolving over $45 billion dollars in real estate loans and developing Affordable Housing programs;<br><br>She appeared before the U.S. Congress to advise on Government Lien Recoveries, Critique of IRS financial statements, reports, audits and collection practices;<br><br>Ms. O\u2019Toole prepared Pilot Programs for the \u00a0U.S. and Calif. State Treasuries on government \u00a0loan and tax lien recoveries with goal\u00a0to recover 1 billion dollars in California a year.<br><br>She volunteers at Assistance League of Laguna Beach and Irvine, \u00a0raising revenue for EIP, an\u00a0Early Intervention Program for delayed development infants and Early Start children\u2019s educational programs.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. O\u2019Toole was the Homeownership (HOC) \/ Executive Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) managing 175 staff and five (5) distinct divisions, including FHA mortgages, Real Estate (HUD Homes), Operations, Quality Assurance Lender Oversight and Fraud Investigations. She began her HUD career as the Quality Assurance Director, ensuring compliance with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonsiren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}