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A small but closely watched number of Long Island homeowners are asking judges to dismiss foreclosure cases against them, saying lenders missed New York’s six-year deadline to file such lawsuits.

Already, a judge has thrown out a Sound Beach couple’s foreclosure case because the lender took too long to file its second lawsuit, after the first one was dismissed. The case has drawn intense scrutiny from attorneys who represent homeowners and lenders. In interviews with Newsday, attorneys said more homeowners have filed court papers seeking the same result.

As Long Island struggles to emerge from its yearslong foreclosure crisis, the deadline could mean a yet-to-be-determined number of Long Island homeowners win their foreclosure cases and stay in their homes.

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Behind the veneer of “all is well” being promoted by both world Governments and the Mainstream Media, the political elite have begun implementing legislation that will permit them to freeze accounts and use your savings to prop up insolvent banks.

This is not conspiracy theory or some kind of doom and gloom. It’s basic fact.

When a Cyprus bank went bust in 2013, the Government SEIZED 40% of ALL SAVINGS DEPOSITS OVER €100,000.

Here’s the timeline:

·      June 25, 2012: Cyprus formally requests a bailout from the EU.

·      November 24, 2012: Cyprus announces it has reached an agreement with the EU the bailout process once Cyprus banks are examined by EU officials (ballpark estimate of capital needed is €17.5 billion).

·      February 25, 2013: Democratic Rally candidate Nicos Anastasiades wins Cypriot election defeating his opponent, an anti-austerity Communist.

The initial stage of this took over six months to develop…

The deal Thursday to bring more than 2,000 bank jobs to New Jersey from New York City began last year with a phone call.

Last fall, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected the entreaties of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to move its headquarters to the far West Side of Manhattan in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks. The Democratic mayor called the company’s subsidy request “a nonstarter.”

Within a day of Mr. de Blasio’s remarks, New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, a Republican, and an official with the state’s economic arm, Lauren Moore, called J.P. Morgan Chief Operating Officer Matthew Zames to discuss what the state could do to persuade the company to move jobs across the Hudson River, according to people familiar with the conversation.

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Cooper v. WPD Polar Ridge, LLC (In re Poplar Ridge, LLC), 526 B.R. 147 (W.D. N.C. 2015) –

After a developer defaulted, the trustee under a deed of trust held a pre-petition foreclosure sale.  The issue was whether the developer debtor’s “declarant rights” were included in the property that was transferred in the sale.  The bankruptcy trustee contended that the rights should not have been transferred and sought to set aside the conveyance.

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see Goodin v Bank of America NA

I think this case decision should be studied. While it is easy to be dismissive of emotional distress damages, this case clearly enunciates the basis for it. I think we tend to demote the claim because of the underlying bias that the borrower has been getting a “free ride.” This case states quite clearly that the ride was neither wanted nor free.Perhaps just as importantly, the Court finds that punitive damages are appropriate in order to get the attention of Bank of America — such that it will stop it’s malevolent behavior. It sets the bar at deterring the bank from this…

From the Intercept:

After failing to criminally prosecute any of the financial firms responsible for the market collapse in 2008, former Attorney General Eric Holder is returning to Covington & Burling, a corporate law firm known for serving Wall Street clients.

The move completes one of the more troubling trips through the revolving door for a cabinet secretary. Holder worked at Covington from 2001 right up to being sworn in as attorney general in Feburary 2009. And Covington literally kept an office empty for him, awaiting his return.

The Covington & Burling client list has included four of the largest banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

Covington was also deeply involved with a company known as MERS, which was later responsible for falsifying mortgage documents on an industrial scale. “Court records show that Covington, in the late 1990s, provided legal opinion letters needed to create MERS on behalf…

When C&B kept Holder’s office open while AG, did this violate 18 USC 208, an “arrangement concerning prospective employment”? @ddayen

— Bartlett Naylor (@BartNaylor) July 7, 2015

And interesting tweets:

2008 Presidential candidate McCain introduces Glass-Steagall reform, also supported by D candidates Sanders, O’Malley http://t.co/Y7VI3McOW8

— Bartlett Naylor (@BartNaylor) July 7, 2015  

Sen. McCain: “A culture of dangerous greed and excessive risk-taking has taken root in the banking world.” Calls for new Glass-Steagall. — Bartlett Naylor (@BartNaylor) July 7, 2015

Bartlett Naylor

@BartNaylor

Financial policy advocate, Public Citizen, Opinions expressed are not necessarily official. Formerly chief of investigations, U.S. Senate Banking Committee.

Cutler joined JPMorgan in 2007 from the law firm of WilmerHale in DC where he was a partner and head of the securities department. Prior to that, he was the director the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division from 2001 until 2005. During his tenure at the SEC, he oversaw the investigations of Enron and WorldCom. Before joining the SEC in 1999, he spent 11 years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in D.C.

He graduated from Yale Law where he was the editor of the Yale Law Journal. He also finished his undergraduate bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) at Yale.

Here’s JPMorgan’s press release:

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) announced today that Stacey Friedman, General Counsel of the company’s Corporate & Investment Bank, will succeed Steve Cutler as General Counsel of the firm early next year, when Mr. Cutler will be appointed Vice Chairman of the firm. Ms. Friedman will report…

The Obama administration quietly handed a victory to U.S. companies that avoid taxes by claiming a foreign address, suggesting that virtually all of them are still eligible for government contracts.

The Department of Homeland Security last year endorsed a legal memorandum that argued in part that a 2002 law banning such companies from federal contracts was invalid, according to a copy of the memo obtained by Bloomberg News. Although President Barack Obama later began publicly criticizing the tax maneuvers known as inversions, there’s no sign that he has reversed the department’s decision.

The March 2013 memo was submitted to Homeland Security by one of the country’s largest inverted companies, the manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Plc. The company argued in part that U.S. trade agreements with foreign governments invalidated the law that would prohibit it from winning federal contracts.

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