IMHO – This was a refreshingly honest email received from the Alan Grayson for U.S. Senate by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson campaign today.
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This post is for information purposes only. It is not meant a a political advertisement.
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court against four interrelated companies and their principals for operating a fraudulent loan modification scam. The lawsuits were filed against Home Affordable Direct, Inc. (Farmingdale, NY), Home Affordable Solutions, Inc. (Farmingdale, NY), JR Holding Group Corp (Babylon, NY), Clear Solutions and Settlements, Inc. (Tampa, FL) and their principals, Javier Gutierrez and Shadi Soumekh. The companies and their principals are alleged to prey upon financially vulnerable consumers by claiming they can provide substantial relief from unaffordable mortgage payments through loan modifications and other forms of foreclosure prevention.
Don’t think for a minute that this could not happen to you. This is much more prevalent than you can imagine.
The New York Times – by JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
Barry Tatum returned to his home in Chicago in December to find that his front and back doors had been torn from their hinges, leaving his possessions exposed to the frigid winds that whipped through his neighborhood.
Terrified that he had been robbed, Mr. Tatum, who had fallen behind on his Bank of America mortgage, raced inside only to discover an unlikely source of the break-in, he Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago forensic auditors and attorneys ran into the Bloomberg Terminal iceberg when Bloomberg Terminal (a securities stock searching software program) locked them out of the loan finding program [LFND]). Without warning Bloomberg Terminal shutdown access to the loan searching program that had been used by numerous companies to research securitized trusts and the loans within in them. It appears too many loans had been found in trusts when the servicers were claiming ownership. What better way to stop the truth than to try to sink the ship?
Never let it be said that where there is big money invested, there won’t be crooks in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter how big you are there’s always a short cut that can that can potentially create more wealth – if you don’t get caught.
An investigator in the northwest uncovered just such a scam – so big that authorities claim it needs multi-state attention. It appears Green Tree Servicing has been flying under the radar and was hardly noticed until a recordation research team began uncovering similarly signed documents – yup, the old robo-signed Assignment of Mortgage trickery again… but this time new and improved via computer, maybe for speed and precision, ya think?
It appears the signatures are in the computer – no dummies needed to sign – just fill in the Continue reading
As the Wall Street mortgage-backed securities fraud collapsed the United States economy Florida began to get hammered. Heavily weighted in Florida loans, targeted Florida homeowners of these failing trusts were the first to feel the brunt force of foreclosures.
From the financial force majeure grew a group of “warriors” that knew something was wrong and they began combing the county records for clues. Among the first of the warriors was Lisa Epstein, an oncology nurse in Palm Beach County, Florida who started noticing something new — and unsettling — as patients talked about their struggles. Not only were her patients and their families coping with a serious diagnosis and the cost and side effects of treatments, but more and more of them were also facing the loss of their homes. Continue reading
The banner NY Times headline was compelling, A Banker Speaks, With Regret By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 30, 2011 The NY Times begins:
“If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly responsible for the country’s housing mess. As a regional vice president for Chase Home Finance in southern Florida, Theckston shoveled money at home borrowers. In 2007, his team wrote $2 billion in mortgages, he says. Sometimes those were “no documentation” mortgages.
“On the application, you don’t put down a job; you… Continue reading
Do it now – call the AG, show them your assignment of mortgage documents and file a complaint. Click on your state below.
THE HIDDEN TRUTH
Behind the collapse of the economy in the U.S. and around the world is the massive loss of pension and retirement funds belonging to government employees, union workers and corporate 401k beneficiaries – these were the “investors” in the securitization fraud stemming from the unregulated derivatives. Hordes of lawsuits have been filed by investors against Wall Street banks, but it’s pretty obvious the money is gone. Continue reading