Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here’s how we fix it.

Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually determines who’s in power. Lessig says that this fundamental breakdown of the democratic system must be fixed before we will ever be able to address major challenges like climate change, social security, and student debt. This is not the most important problem, it’s just the first problem.
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Iowa Democratic Debate: Bernie Sanders Is Really Not Impressed With Hillary Clinton’s Plan For Wall Street

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On a side note: Mrs. Clinton’s claim in the debate regarding former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker as being against the re-instatement of Glass-Steagall? Don’t think so.

“Paul Volker’s Quest to Reinstate Glass-Steagall”
http://www.theatlantic.com/…/volckers-quest-to…/28759/

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was not impressed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s plan to regulate Wall Street.

“I’ve laid out a very aggressive plan to rein in Wall Street, not just the big banks; that’s a part of the problem and I am going right at them, I’ve got a tough plan,” Clinton said, going on to explain how the government needed to regulate the “shadow banking industry” such as hedge funds, insurance companies and investment banks.

“My proposal is more comprehensive than anything else that’s been put forward,” she said.

But Sanders, who has said that Clinton’s donations from Wall Street raise questions, wasn’t persuaded by her answer. Asked for his response to Clinton’s…

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The Foreclosure Hour 11/15/2015: The Truth About Truth-In-Lending Rescissions: Understanding the Case Law and Why Judges Dislike TILA

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New Century, now Carrington, did not own promissory note or deed of trust, and could not legally transfer lien

Most New Century mortgages will find the same problem. Fraudulent assignments are not ministerial…

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robosigned document

And which making it impossible for Carrington or Wells Fargo to legally enforce the lien.

Wolf Transfer of Lien (NCMC to WF), 10.15.2009

Notice that from the Wolf vs. Wells Fargo lawsuit, the transfer of lien document was signed by Tom Croft, Vice President of REO for New Century Mortgage Corporation. Croft, according to Linkedin website of the Senior Vice President of REO for Carrington: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-croft-388a5613. There is a major problem: New Century filed bankruptcy in 2007 and Carrington Mortgage brought New Century. The second problem is the transfer of lien document was recorded in 2009. Here is the SEC filing for Carrington Mortgage Trust, Series 2006-NC3:

0001369384Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-NC3
SIC: 6189 – ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES

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Wells Fargo Must Pay $5.4M In Robosigning Foreclosure Row

Yes, Virginia – there is a Santa Claus.

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Wolf vs. Wells Fargo…

H/T Marie McDonnell

Below, I have attached the jury award from the Wolf v. Wells Fargo trial. The jury concluded its deliberations on Tuesday afternoon, November 10th.
It is my belief that this is the first jury verdict of its kind where the jury was asked to determine whether a robo-signed Transfer of Lien (assignment of mortgage) was fraudulent, and on that basis, award damages.
The jury awarded the Wolfs $190,000 in actual and emotional distress damages; $190,000 in attorneys’ fees — which is sufficient to take them through an appeal all the way up to the Texas Supreme Court; and $5 million in punitive damages to be paid equally by Wells Fargo and Carrington.
Plaintiffs David and Mary Ellen Wolf testified on their own behalf, and I testified as their expert.
I explained to the jury the sequence of “true sales” that were necessary…

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Former Citigroup CEO: Big banks don’t work

Yeah, no sense of consequence and now 20/20 hindsight.

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Now this is a joke since Citigroup lobbied and benefitted from the repealing of the Glass Steagall bill…

The former CEO of Citigroup just admitted to a huge mistake.

In an op-ed published in the Financial Times, John Reed says large banks like the one he used to run are now “inherently unstable and unworkable.”

The man who was one of the chief architects of the “Big Bank” model now says the United States never should have repealed the Glass-Steagall banking act in 1999.

That’s exactly what Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have been arguing on the campaign trail. They want the law reinstated. Hillary Clinton and the Republican candidates do not.

As CEO of Citi (C)from 1984 to 2000, Reed was one of the main lobbyists advocating Congress and President Bill Clinton to get rid of the Glass-Steagall Act. It had been in place since…

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Wells Fargo dual tracking?

It’s like that all over the U.S. There is a case in Hawaii where they entered into appellate mediation, agreed to a modification, told the homeowner where to send the payments (a new servicer Homeward Residential) and then Homeward Residential refused the payments… Now Ocwen says the credit rating agency won’t allow any more modification for that trust. Such BS.

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Sandusky Register:

YOUR MORTGAGE LOAN HAS BEEN REFERRED TO OUR FIRM FOR FORECLOSURE

In a recent case, a homeowner whose loan is serviced by Wells Fargo presented a letter from a law firm which proclaimed at its beginning: “Your mortgage loan has been referred to us for foreclosure.”

Dated on the very same day, Wells Fargo sent the homeowner a financial package to complete in order to gain a mortgage workout. Since in our experience the loss mitigation or workout departments of mortgage servicers do not maintain communication with foreclosure counsel, it appears Wells Fargo has already decided to file foreclosure, even while it invites the homeowner to provide information designed to avoid it.

THE END RESULT

Of course the end result of this type of conduct is to put tremendous pressure on the poor homeowner to accept whatever sort of deal the mortgage company may want to offer, even a deal which may be built to fail.

Fortunately, this…

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About That Chase-WAMU Deal

Realize the bankruptcy sealed documents tell a lot more of the truth than you will ever get from a human in co-hoots with the system.

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Imagine my surprise when I recently went to the FDIC website, clicked on FOIA at the bottom of the page, then went to Reading Room and looked again at the Chase-WAMU-FDIC-US Trustee Purchase and Assumption Agreement. Having previously read and studied it I was attempting to direct someone to the language that showed that no loans were purchased from WAMU basically because there were no loans in WAMU’s inventory. Staring me in the face was an entirely different document bearing the same date as the one that I had previously seen. Anyone who has an explanation of this is invited to write to me at neilfgarfield@hotmail.com.

In the interim between my first reading of the agreement and now, I had several conversations including the FDIC receiver who was appointed to “resolve” the WAMU bankruptcy. The receiver (Schoppe) told me that no loans had been purchased or listed as part of…

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Homeowners say houses were emptied before being foreclosed

Theft is theft.

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ORLANDO, Fla. —

Many Americans have stories to tell about losing their homes to foreclosure. Channel 9 found out that some homeowners who haven’t yet been foreclosed have come home to find all their belongings gone.

“It was a crime because no one had permission to take those items from the house,” homeowner Bill Gullbrandson said.

Gullbrandson was in the early stages of foreclosure on his Wildwood home.

The house was still in his name when he said he walked inside and found that his belongings had been taken.

“How much did they take off with?” Channel 9’s Jamie Holmes asked.

“Approximately $6,000 worth of new furnishings and appliances that had been placed in the house,” said Gullbrandson.

The same thing happened to Jonathan Axtell.

In both cases, the men’s attorney claims that the items were taken by a clean-out company hired by the bank to secure the property.

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Freddie Mac to sell off $1.2 billion in non-performing loans

OMG – Somebody please insist on an audit.

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Freddie Mac announced Monday that it intends to sell off $1.2 billion in non-performing loans, marking its eighth sale of non-performing loans since the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced the new requirements for sales of NPLs by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to make sure the loans go to capable mortgage servicers.

The loans are all “deeply delinquent,” according to Freddie Mac, and will be sold in seven pools.

The entire portfolio of loans are currently being serviced by Wells Fargo (WFC).

According to Freddie Mac, the sale will be conducted via auction, with all eligible bidders, including private investors, minority and women-owned businesses, non-profits and neighborhood advocacy funds encouraged to bid on the seven pools of loans.

Read on.

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