Senate Adds Another Foreclosure Kingpin To Trump’s Cabinet

And this crook without a fight. Donations to political PACs pays off, huh?

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The Senate voted on Monday evening to confirm Wilbur Ross as secretary of commerce. The 79-year-old billionaire private equity investor is President Donald Trump’s 10th cabinet nominee to be confirmed, and remarkably, is the second member of Trump’s cabinet who was deeply involved in companies that swept up the housing crisis with foreclosures marred by document fraud like robo-signing.

The first, Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s treasury secretary, invested in and ran OneWest bank, which foreclosed on tens of thousands of Americans in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. During his Senate confirmation hearing, he denied that his bank used the illegal practice of robo-signing, but public documents obtained by The Columbus Dispatch showed that was a false statement.

Ross may not have been the CEO of a bank foreclosing on homeowners, but he was nevertheless intimately involved and invested in two companies that were accused of widespread wrongdoing. American…

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Foreclosures spike 18%

IMHO foreclosures abound because the majority of loan collateral went through Fannie and Freddie who, it appears, maintained an interest and guarantee, are the real party in interest and are still hiding debt.

Many of the homeowners we see were sucked into the Obama/Geithner HAMP scam and told they had to miss 3-4 payments in order qualify for the program. Once the payments were missed default was declared and modification was an abusive run-around for several years. Homeowners want to make payments – they are denied fair process. Fannie & Freddie want to dump the paper because it was their fault it was accepted in the first place – it appears they were complicit with the scheme, if not altogether the ring leaders.

If you have a BAC or BofA foreclosure and Assignment to either of them by MERS, or if you can’t find your loan in a trust (and even if it’s in one) Fannie or Freddie may be the real plaintiff…just hiding, complicit with being concealed.

Supreme Court breathes new life into whistleblower case against Wells Fargo

We should all be grateful to those that dedicate themselves to ensure justice and the Rule of Law remain alive and well.

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With a ruling Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court revived a long-running whistleblower lawsuit that accused Wachovia’s investment bank of violating accounting rules and skirting internal controls to pursue short-term profits.

The Supreme Court vacated a judgment in August 2016 by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit that had affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the case filed by two whistleblowers, including one who had worked in Charlotte.

The high court ordered the appeals court to give the case further consideration in light of a June 2016 Supreme Court ruling that interpreted an aspect of the federal whistleblower law called the U.S. False Claims Act.

“It has obviously breathed new life into our case, which is very important for everyone involved,” said Joel Androphy, a Houston-based attorney representing the plaintiffs. “This has been a very long road.”

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Sometimes You Have to Dig Deeper to Connect the Dots and Get to The Real Truth. Maybe PNC Never Really “Owned” the Loans?

United States District Court, E.D. California.
GENET HABTEMARIAM, Plaintiff,
v.
VIDA CAPITAL GROUP, LLC; US MORTGAGE RESOLUTION; PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; and DOES 1 to 50, inclusive, Defendants.

No. 2:16-cv-01189-MCE-GGH.
February 13, 2017.

pncSome three years later, PNC notified Plaintiff by mail that its SDOT was discharged, apparently due to a settlement agreement PNC had reached with various agencies of the United States government. PNC effectuated that cancellation by sending a 1099-C form approved by the Internal Revenue Service for cancelling a debt. Plaintiff received the Form 1099-C on or about June 29, 2010. According to Plaintiff, because the 1099-C cancelled the amount she owed on the second mortgage, she believed it legally released her from any further obligation to pay Continue reading

USA v. Minas Litos and Adrian and Daniela Tartareanu | 7th Circuit halts fraud restitution, urges fine for ‘reckless’ Bank of America

Wow! Judge Posner gets it! “Posner detailed the bank’s dubious mortgage-lending history during the real-estate bubble leading up to the Great Recession, noting for instance one woman to whom the bank issued six mortgages in a 10-day period. Posner noted that District Judge Philip Simon said during sentencing in this case, “Bank of America knew [what] was going on. They’re playing this dance and papering it. Everybody knows it is a sham because no one is assuming any risk. So what’s wrong with saying they’re [of] equal culpability?””

The swamp expands: Steven Mnuchin sworn in as Treasury Secretary

Sad.

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Despite all the bluster, attempted parliamentary maneuvering, and name-calling from the Democratic party, the Senate voted Monday evening to approve Steven Mnuchin to serve as the next Secretary of the Department of the Treasury.

As expected, the Senate approved Mnuchin in a partisan vote of 53-47, with one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, splitting from his party and voting with the Republican majority.

Read on.

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When the Debtor Holds a Junior Lien: Can a Senior Lien Creditor March On or Is It Stayed?

With a HOA or AOA do homeowners have much “interest” in anything besides the sticks of the unit? Apparently, not. Depending on the state laws and knowing the ways the rehypothecation of the homeowners’ collateral works with the banks, it appears it would be prudent to always file a mortgage lien in the records office… some states, like Hawaii, are first come first served. It appears Banks don’t file mortgage assignments until the homeowner defaults because they are reusing the collateral and merely pledged the note to the securitized REMIC trust, until default.

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Invest Vegas, LLC v. 21st Mortgage Corp. (In re Residential Capital, LLC), 556 B.R. 555 (Bankr. S.D. N.Y. 2016) –

A debtor held a note secured by a first priority deed of trust on property that was also subject to a super priority homeowner’s association lien securing delinquent assessments against the property. The HOA foreclosed its lien after the debtor filed bankruptcy. The issue for the bankruptcy court was whether the HOA violated the automatic stay, and thus whether the deed of trust was extinguished by the foreclosure.

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Baltimore Whistleblower Teacher Says ‘All Systems Down’ in City Schools

Expect a lot of this. $3.4 TRILLION of pension funds nationwide gambled away on Wall Street. Investigations need to be launched against finance directors, state & federal government legislators and former administrations and union leaders. Get to the bottom of why these investments were made. Pension funds must be invested in TRIPLE A and LIQUID investments – (non- traditional) mortgages (MBS) are not liquid unless forced into default… school loans (ARS) are certainly not a secure investment and credit cards (ABS) have a history of failure… and we know the TRIPLE A ratings were rigged. Oust the bad guys – including politicians that promoted the derivative investments.

See -Maryland $50 billion in unfunded state and local retirement benefits, study says: http://marylandreporter.com/2013/10/30/50-billion-in-unfunded-state-and-local-retirement-benefits-study-says/

See also: City pension officials spend nearly $100,000 on trips: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-pension-travel-20150318-story.html#page=1

Check you state’s pension fund disaster: http://www.pensiontsunami.com/public.php

 

 

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Longtime educator gives an inside view of deplorable conditions and poor learning environment as city officials prepare to layoff nearly 1000 employees to address budget deficit crisis.

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