Category: community banks

Just like I said: Megabanks are doing just fine despite economic downturn — at the expense of investors, taxpayers and homeowners.

July 21, 2020

Major banks, including Citigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley used massive trading revenues to beat profit expectations despite the continued struggles of the United States economy during the coronavirus pandemic. Those trading units tend to perform best when markets are volatile, helping to guard the major banks against economic struggles. see https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/without-big-wall-street-trading-arms-regional-banks-lean-on-mortgages-and-fees-to-beat-earnings.html Way back in 2006 and 2007 and when I first started publishing articles about the mortgage meltdown (before most people realized there was a meltdown) I reported that the major banks were siphoning off much of the wealth contained inside the U.S. I said that these mega banks were parking ill-gotten gains off-shore in various

Levitin and Yves Smith – TRUST=EMPTY PAPER BAG

September 26, 2014

Living Lies Narrative Corroborated by Increasing Number of Respected Economists It has taken over 7 years, but finally my description of the securitization process has taken hold. Levitin calls it “securitization fail.” Yves Smith agrees. Bottom line: there was no securitization, the trusts were merely empty sham nominees for the investment banks and the “assignments,” transfers, and endorsements of the fabricated paper from illegal closings were worthless, fraudulent and caused incomprehensible damage to everyone except the perpetrators of the crime. They call it “infinite rehypothecation” on Wall Street. That makes it seem infinitely complex. Call it what you want, it

ALERT: COMMUNITY BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS AT GRAVE RISK HOLDING $1.5 TRILLION IN MBS

November 14, 2013

I’ve talked about this before. It is why we offer a Risk Analysis Report to Community Banks and Credit Unions. The report analyzes the potential risk of holding MBS instruments in lieu of Treasury Bonds. And it provides guidance to the bank on making new loans on property where there is a history of assignments, transfers and other indicia of claims of securitization. The risks include but are not limited to MBS Instrument issued by New York common law trust that was never funded, and has no assets or expectation of same. MBS Instrument was issued by NY common law

Reuters: Credit Unions Fail As a Result of Buying Mortgage Bonds

October 2, 2013

As regulators conclude their long investigation into the cloud of companies and the maze of paths of paperwork and money the real victims are being revealed. We know Pension funds got hit hard and are now underfunded strictly as a result of buying worthless mortgage bonds from investment bankers who promised them protection and transparency but instead proved to be the predator. Now regulators are suing Morgan Stanley for defrauding two credit unions that failed as a result of taking a loss on those bonds — a loss that was a gain to the investment banker. But they still don’t

ELIZABETH WARREN AND JOHN MCCAIN TEAM UP TO REIGN IN BANKS

July 12, 2013

Go to www.msnbc.com. CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN AND WOMEN. LET THEM KNOW THEY ALREADY HAVE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS LAW AND THAT THEY DON’T NEED TO SELL THEMSELVES TO GET SUPPORT FROM THEIR CONSTITUENCY. MSNBC had a segment today in which they interviewed Elizabeth Warren about a new set of laws reinstating the old style of Chinese walls. There are probably similar interviews on other channels with Senator Warren or Senator McCain and others. Just go to your favorite news channel and look it up. Their approach has bi partisan support because of its simplicity and its history. Historically

Fannie and Freddie Platinum Sponsors with (MERS and LPS) of Upscale Event for Bankers

October 16, 2011

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE UNDERLYING THEME: HOW TO GET THE SIGNATURE OF HOMEOWNER WITHOUT ALERTING ALL HOMEOWNERS THAT THEIR SIGNATURE IS NOW A VALUABLE COMMODITY AHC AND LIVINGLIES ANNOUNCE LAUNCH OF AMGAR EDITOR’S COMMENT: Are they really that tone deaf? It appears the answer is yes as Fannie and Freddie Joined Hands with MERS and LPS to become Platinum Sponsors of this Bankers Convention. If they had the slightest notion of the mayhem caused by these two culprits, neither Fannie nor Freddie should have avoided the event altogether and certainly not underwritten

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October 3, 2010

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Lakeside Bank, St. Charles, La — The Way Banking Should Be

August 29, 2010

Editor’s Comment: Only one Bank has failed in Louisiana since the financial crisis began. And only one bank in the United States has commenced operations in the year 2010 — this one in Louisiana. Despite an unofficial moratorium on new bank charters of 70-year-old retiree, Hartie Spence, managed to navigate the regulations and got the only new start-up bank to open in the country, operating out of a secondhand double wide trailer. The probable reason for the apparent safety of banks in the state of Louisiana is the rampant poverty. But it shows that even where people have very little

Foreclosure Prevention 1.1

April 22, 2010

Nobody ever thought that returning a lady’s purse to her after a purse snatcher ran away with it was a gift. So why is anyone contesting returning the purse to homeowners who had their lives snatched from them? The baby steps of the Obama administration are frustrating. Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and those who walk with Wall Street are using ideology and assumptions instead of reality and facts. First they started with the idea of modifications. That would do it. Just change the terms a little, have the homeowner release rights and defenses to what was a completely fraudulent and

Regulation: Big Government or Big Business

April 21, 2010

“the banks should not be allowed to be larger than the government’s ability to regulate them” If you ask someone about big government, they will probably tell you they don’t want government meddling in their personal business. What they really mean is that they don’t want ANYONE meddling in their lives. In reality, that opened the door to the finance sector to meddle, control and alter our lives. Banks, insurance companies and non-bank financial institutions have co-opted governmental decision making, and forced us all to pay dearly — far more than those taxes that everyone is worried about. Just look

No Loss to OneWest on FDIC IndyMac deal

April 2, 2010

Here is an interesting article from Tadly 2010/03/26 at 5:47pm Here is an interesting article Harder Part American Banker | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 By Jeff Horwitz * IndyMac Buyers Pick Up Another Failed Bank – February 22, 2010 * FDIC Rebukes Internet Video – February 16, 2010 In less than a year, the private-equity buyers of IndyMac Bank — the $32 billion-asset California thrift seized in July 2008 and run by regulators for six months — have turned a $1.6 billion profit. Now called OneWest Bank, the company is outperforming rivals on various fronts, including working out troubled assets,

Tax Apocalypse for States and Federal Government Can be Reversed: Show Me the Money!

March 31, 2010

SEE states-look-beyond-borders-to-collect-owed-taxes states-ignore-obvious-remedy-to-fiscal-meltdown tax-impact-of-principal-reduction accounting-for-damages-madoff-ruling-may-affect-homeowner-claims taxing-wall-street-down-to-size-litigation-guidelines taking-aim-at-bonuses-based-on-23-7-trillion-in-taxpayer-gifts payback-timemany-see-the-vat-option-as-a-cure-for-deficits As we have repeatedly stated on this blog, the trigger for the huge deficits was the housing nightmare conjured up for us by Wall Street. Banks made trillions of dollars in profits that were never taxed. The tax laws are already in place. Everyone is paying taxes, why are they not paying taxes? If they did, a substantial portion of the deficits would vanish. Each day we let the bankers control our state executives and legislators, we fall deeper and deeper in debt, we lose more social services and it endangers our

Man Sends Message to Banks-Bulldozes $350k House

February 21, 2010

Sending Banks a Message – Cincinnati OH – Click Here to View Video “The average homeowner that can’t afford an attorney or can fight as long as we have, they don’t stand a chance,” he said. Hoskins said he’d gotten a $170,000 offer from someone to pay off the house, but the bank refused, saying they could get more from selling it in foreclosure. Hoskins told News 5’s Courtis Fuller that he issued the bank an ultimatum. “I’ll tear it down before I let you take it,” Hoskins told them. And that’s exactly what Hoskins did. Editors Note – The borrower actually had equity

Kansas S Ct Decision Annotation 2: Reversing Default

September 24, 2009

The point must be made, and the evidence must be allowed, that the pretender lenders are gaming the system every day and literally stealing homes from both homeowners and investors who thought they had an interest in those homes when they bought mortgage backed securities. This leaves the borrower in a position of financial double jeopardy wherein the true owner of the loan can still make a claim and the investor is simply out of luck — usually have been misinformed about the payments or status of the pool of assets the investor bought into. From Landmark v Kesler —

Give me a little help here: Trusts, REMICs, and the Authority of the Trustee or Trustee's Attorney to Represent

June 25, 2009

When U.S. Bank comes in as Trustee for the the holders of series xyz etc., the use of the words Trustee and series certificates give it an air of legitimacy. But this is probably just another bluff. Reading the indenture on the bond (mortgage backed security) and the prospectus, you will see that the “Trust” may or may not be the the Special Purpose Vehicle that issued the bonds. And of course I remind you that the “borrower” (whom I call an “issuer” for reason explained in other posts) signed a note with one set of terms and the source

Securitization in A Nutshell

June 23, 2009

According to the terms of any note I ever read, any payment from you or any third party that is intended to be a payment against interest, principal or both must be applied as such. You have hit the nail on the head with your question. When they pooled your note, the deal you signed was ended and a new one began — one to which you were NOT a party. You were mentioned but they never got your signature in the pooling and servicing stage, the securitization stage or the terms of the bond (mortgage backed indenture stage). Question:

AIG Mystery: Where's the Money?

March 2, 2009

Greetings! I hope you like our new look. Our team has been working on producing a more user friendly atmosphere and the work continues. I hope you like it. More improvements are coming. 3/2/09 Bailouts are going to the perpetrators rather than the victims. The mystery deepens as to where all this money went and where it is going. Something like a trillion dollars (a number with a lot of zeroes) has gone into a black whole called “the financial system.” AIG just received another $30 billion to cover losses from “write-downs.” But is that money actually going to investors

The Game Goes On: Market Headed Down, Foreclosure Game Puts Property in the Wrong Hands

February 5, 2009

Housing market headed far down along with economy

Let's Hear It For Sherriff Evans: Federal bailout act protections preempt State foreclosure

February 5, 2009

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -Edmund Burke Release Date: February 2, 2009 Contact: Ofc. John Roach, 313-224-0615 Evans halts sale of foreclosed homes o Sheriff says move is necessary to ensure homeowners´ rights o Federal bailout act protections preempt State foreclosure law, Evans says DETROIT, Michigan – Sheriff Warren Evans announced today that he is stopping all mortgage foreclosure sales handled through his office and urged other Michigan sheriffs to take similar action. Evans said a thorough review of federal law has determined that to continue foreclosure sales would conflict with

Livinglies site is not only for the skeptics enjoyment and those seeking sources of underground legal entertainment. Damn it people it works.

February 2, 2009

Comment: www.foreclosureinforsearch.com By Maher Soliman Living lies recently posted an outstanding (according to our counsel) well prepared Motion to set aside judgment which we used to file after entry of judgment for a UD hearing that did not end up favorable. We filed six motions total to date and we are five for six when filed. LA SALLE NATIONAL BANK COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN; TRACY JUDICIAL DISTRIC V. O. MUNOZ CASE NO 39-2008-00196254-CL-UD-TRA The most recent effort to bring life back into a wrongful foreclosure was a late filing on Friday January 31th 2009. The trustor now holdover was prepared

Closed: Utah's MagnetBank, Florida's Ocala National Bank, Maryland's Suburban Federal Savings Bank — 6 so far in 2009

January 31, 2009

Utah’s MagnetBank closed without an acquirer FDIC shuts down three banks in one day amid ongoing credit crisis By John Letzing, MarketWatch Last update: 6:42 p.m. EST Jan. 30, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Federal regulators closed three banks in a single day Friday, as the ongoing credit crisis showed no signs of abating. Utah’s MagnetBank became the fourth bank failure of the year, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was forced to directly refund depositors after being unable to find another institution willing to take over its operations. That marked the first time the FDIC has been unable to

Those $18 billion in bonuses were earned from hidden profits: The Joke is on Us

January 30, 2009

Obama is of course correct in his outrage. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers to cover the appearances of catastrophic losses and then paying bonuses for good management is over the top by any standards. But neither he nor the media is correct in assuming that that the bonuses were not in fact earned by the people who defrauded us in the first place with the mortgage meltdown. Those bonuses were paid BECAUSE PROFIT WAS GENERATED even if it wasn’t completely reported. Nobody seems to get it — the key acronym is OPM (other people’s money). Wall

An Open Letter to Dean Martin Arizona State Treasurer: You are leaving Money on the Table — MERS and Securitization — Hundreds of millions of dollars in receivables go uncollected

January 4, 2009

January 4, 2008 info@aztreasury.gov Dear Mr. Martin: The Arizona Republic reports today that you and others in government have asserted that the State of Arizona is about out of cash. Others have described the state as “broke.” What you are missing is one very large receivable due to the state and county governments — hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, recording and registration fees for all the companies that side-stepped Arizona Law in the great Mortgage Meltdown of 2001-2008. This isn’t a long letter because it doesn’t need length — it needs action. State Receivables are not being collected

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! (I THINK)

January 2, 2009

Happy New Year! We have much to talk about this year as we push forward. By all accounts, the economy, the dollar, the foreclosures, the job situation etc are all getting worse by the minute. Even if Obama is a magician it will be 2 years before there is a glimmer of hope. The homeowner aid programs are window dressing. Even the Sheila Bair one from FDIC/Indy Mac while well-intentioned does little for most homeowners. The ONLY hope for homeowners and the only hope for our economy is if we face the music and take the free market enthusiasts at