States using settlement money to plug budgets

Some of the money from the $25 billion settlement with five of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders will never go to help victims of the mortgage crisis. Instead, some of those funds will be channeled directly to state governments to offset their annual budget shortfalls, much in the same way money from the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement goes directly into the budget of many states, including Rhode Island. More

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