Sen. Bernie Sanders exposed 18 CEOs who took trillions in bailouts, evaded taxes and outsourced jobs

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It’s worth repeating again since Sen. Bernie Sanders is running for President in 2016 and has been spot on about Wall Street. Sanders exposed those corporate dodgers that took trillions in bailouts:

Sanders said,

There really is no shame. The Wall Street leaders whose recklessness and illegal behavior caused this terrible recession are now lecturing the American people on the need for courage to deal with the nation’s finances and deficit crisis. Before telling us why we should cut Social Security, Medicare and other vitally important programs, these CEOs might want to take a hard look at their responsibility for causing the deficit and this terrible recession.

Our Wall Street friends might also want to show some courage of their own by suggesting that the wealthiest people in this country, like them, start paying their fair share of taxes. They might work to end the outrageous corporate loopholes, tax…

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Foreclosures: Beware Unexpected Violations

Somebody is finally catching on.

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Field v. Bank of America, N.A. (In re Gibbs), 522 B.R. 282 (Bankr. D. Hawaii 2014) –

A bankruptcy trustee sued a mortgage lender to recover for defects in a prepetition non-judicial foreclosure sale. The lender brought a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.  The primary focus of the court was on claims under the state Unfair and Deceptive Acts or Trade Practices (UDAP) law.

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Wells Fargo settles Ponzi scheme lawsuit for more than $3 million

Just tell me why no one realizes we were all treated like minorities and targeted as the majority of homeowners remain duped?! Just take a look at a couple of Wells Fargo patents.

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Thousands of victims — many of them working-class Haitian Americans from South Florida — are one step closer to receiving restitution for a Ponzi scheme that bilked them out of at least $30 million.

A federal judge on Friday approved the terms of a $3.175 million settlement between Wells Fargo Bank and a receiver appointed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to run the companies once owned by convicted scammer George Theodule.

The settlement came soon before a jury was expected to deliver its verdict after a 16-day trial.

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Court Allows Damages for Lost Rental Income and Emotional Distress Against the Bankster

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Miles v. Deutsche Bank

Court: California Court of Appeal
Docket: G050294
Opinion Date: April 29, 2015
Areas of Law: Civil Procedure, Real Estate & Property Law

At issue in this case were allegations of a wrongful foreclosure and related causes of action. Plaintiff John Miles appealed a judgment dismissing his breach of contract, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation causes of action pursuant to a sustained demurrer, and a summary judgment in favor of defendants banks on the wrongful foreclosure cause of action. With respect to the demurred causes of action, the Court of Appeal reversed: after review of the record, the Court found no explanation for the trial court’s ruling. Based on its independent review of the complaint, the Court of Appeal concluded plaintiff adequately stated his claims. With respect to the wrongful foreclosure cause of action, the Court also reversed: the trial court granted summary judgment on the sole basis…

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Big Banks Claim Reform Will Hurt the Economy. Here’s Why That’s BS

“The progress has been totally unfocused and insufficient. ” Including the Courts!

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Anat Admati, who teaches finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes, a classic account of the problem of Too Big to Fail banks. On May 6th she will address the “Finance and Society” conference sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, featuring influential women who have challenged the status quo, like Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, IMF Managing Director Christine LaGarde, and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Admati will join Brooksley Born, former chair of Chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, to discuss how effective financial regulation can make the system work better for society. Seven years after financial hell broke loose, Admati warns that we are far from fixing a bloated and dangerous financial system – and that the system can’t fix itself. Why should you care? This gigantic house of cards could fall on you.

Lynn Parramore: How…

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New York High Court Weighs Mortgage Claim Time Limits

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New York law gives investors who say they were duped into buying flawed mortgage bonds six years to sue. But does the clock start ticking on the day the bonds were packaged or after problems with the loans came to light?

On Thursday, New York’s highest court confronted that question as it considered an appeal by investors seeking to force a Deutsche Bank AG unit to buy back bad loans packaged into securities before the financial crisis. The eventual ruling by the state Court of Appeals could open the door to many more such cases if the investors’ trustee prevails.

Paul Clement, a lawyer for the trustee, told the court that the six-year statute of limitations begins to run only after the flaws are discovered — and not, as the bank argued, when the bonds were packaged and sold years earlier.

“This is a contract that extends for 30 years,”…

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