by the LendingLies team The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it plans to slowly sell off the pile of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities trash it accumulated during three asset purchase sessions (aka QE 1, 2 and 3), marking an end to a key strategy in response to the financial crisis. The sale of defective Mortgage-backed securities …
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Below is another “fake news” report from your friendly St. Louis Federal Reserve. The Foreclosure Crisis isn’t even close to being resolved. Pensions are failing, houses are being foreclosed with fake documents and housing prices have reached unaffordable levels while wages remain flat. This isn’t even close to being the end of the crisis. Until …
Fed Up: The Foreclosure Crisis that Caused the 2008 Crash Is Now Ending Read More »
50 years ago Congress decided to slap punitive measures on lenders who ignore or attempt to go around (table-funded loans) existing laws on required disclosures — instead of creating a super agency that would review every loan closing before it could be consummated. So it made the punishment so severe that only the stupidest lenders …
RESCISSION: It's time for another slap on the wrist for state and federal judges. Read More »
‘The bottom line is that the notice of substitution of Plaintiff in judicial states, or notice of substitution of Trustee in non-judicial states should be the first line of battle. Neither one of them is valid and in both cases you have a stranger to the transaction being allowed to name itself as creditor, name …
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, …
ALERT: COMMUNITY BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS AT GRAVE RISK HOLDING $1.5 TRILLION IN MBS Read More »
BUSINESS DAY | Five Years Later, Poll Finds Disapproval of Bailout The simple answer is yes, there will be another bailout attempt and it appears likely that the Banks will continue to confuse things enough so that it again happens only “this time” there will be some “stern regulations”. The reason is not some esoteric …
We have come a long way in six years. Back in 2007 almost everyone thought that the mortgage bonds were valid instruments issued by a valid entity that owned valid mortgages. Now we have Reuters news service reporting that “home loans underlying securities were rotten from the start.” Thus we are crossing that line where …
Reuters: Mortgage Bonds Were "Rotten from the Start." Read More »
“The truth is that they stopped the review process and “Settled” because the regulators were under a mandate to protect the banks. They were finding far too many wrongful and illegal foreclosures. The investigator testified that the small sampling they used was not random but rather designed to show how few foreclosures were illegal. But …
Will the Findings from the Brief "Foreclosure Review" Process Be Released? Read More »
Now that I am actively practicing law I see the reasons for the anger and recriminations regarding the conduct of proceedings involving foreclosure. But whether the judge likes it or not the law is very clear regarding a condition precedent to the filing of foreclosure action. The borrower must receive notice. The notice must state …
Now that Federal Reserve is nearly done buying the worthless mortgage bonds, the banks have shown that they are in fact making money hand over fist and the government is feeling less fearful about toppling the financial system with financial regulation. Based upon my interview with a highly placed well-informed source who prefers to …
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! WHY ARE THE BANKS FIGHTING TO GET AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE FROM EACH “FAILED” LOAN? A drama is playing out in the state of Massachusetts. Bank of America is pretending to be the lender or the authorized servicer or both. But it outsourced the task of dealing with borrowers seeking modification. The …
BOA Seeks to Seal Damaging Testimony from Urban Lending Read More »
Major banks [WELLS AND CITI] have reportedly made proposals to the Fed on how to pay for the restructuring of large financial institutions that collapse, with the idea being to avoid the chaos that followed Lehman’s bankruptcy. Among the suggestions, the largest financial-services holding companies would maintain combined debt and equity equal to 14% of …
Wells Fargo and Chase Quietly Prepare to Take Over BOA and Citi as They Collapse Read More »
If the bond buying program had been directed at direct assistance to investors and homeowners, the crisis would already be over and GDP would be rising by at least 3.5%, unemployment at 5% or less, and the deficit would be eliminated on an annual basis and vastly reduced long term. Debt would cease to be …
Federal Reserve Continues Welfare Payments to Banks Read More »
Steal this Massachusetts Town’s Toughest New Foreclosure Prevention Ideas http://www.keystonepolitics.com/2013/06/steal-this-massachusetts-towns-toughest-new-foreclosure-prevention-ideas/ Florida leads nation in vacated foreclosures — and it’s not even close http://www.thefloridacurrent.com/article.cfm?id=33330748 Editor’s Note: it is only common sense. There are several things that are known with complete certainty in connection with the mortgage mess. We know that the banks found it necessary to …
Monday Livinglies Magazine: Crime and Punishment Read More »
EDITOR’S NOTE: The complaint below is from the United States Atty. for the Southern District of New York gives us a clear picture of the processing of loans without any underwriting standards at Countrywide and other aggregators across the country. The complaint is not authority, but it is a guide for what you can allege …
U.S. v BofA: Countrywide Eliminated Underwriting Standards Read More »
Carmen Reinhart: “No Doubt. Our Pensions Are Screwed.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-11/carmen-reinhart-no-doubt-our-pensions-are-screwed Editor’s Comment: It is nothing less than an insult to our intelligence. As the walls crumble around the myth of securitization, the banks are stepping up efforts — in concert with the agencies that are supposed to regulate them — to prevent people from doing simple …
CHECK OUT OUR EXTENDED DECEMBER SPECIAL! What’s the Next Step? Consult with Neil Garfield For assistance with presenting a case for wrongful foreclosure, please call 520-405-1688, customer service, who will put you in touch with an attorney in the states of Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, California, Ohio, and Nevada. (NOTE: Chapter 11 may be easier than …
CHECK OUT OUR DECEMBER SPECIAL! What’s the Next Step? Consult with Neil Garfield For assistance with presenting a case for wrongful foreclosure, please call 520-405-1688, customer service, who will put you in touch with an attorney in the states of Florida, California, Ohio, and Nevada. (NOTE: Chapter 11 may be easier than you think). Editor’s …
Deny and Discover — Where the Rubber Meets the Road Read More »
CHECK OUT OUR DECEMBER SPECIAL! What’s the Next Step? Consult with Neil Garfield For assistance with presenting a case for wrongful foreclosure, please call 520-405-1688, customer service, who will put you in touch with an attorney in the states of Florida, California, Ohio, and Nevada. (NOTE: Chapter 11 may be easier than you think). Editor’s …
Foreclosure Review Process Handed Over to the Banks Read More »
CHECK OUT OUR DECEMBER SPECIAL! What’s the Next Step? Consult with Neil Garfield For assistance with presenting a case for wrongful foreclosure, please call 520-405-1688, customer service, who will put you in touch with an attorney in the states of Florida, California, Ohio, and Nevada. (NOTE: Chapter 11 may be easier than you think). Editor’s …
The REMICS are mirror images of the NINJA loans — no income, no assets, no job the borrower did not realize that the false appraisal and other deficiencies in underwriting had shifted the risk of loss to the homeowner and the investors Editor’s Notes: Our economy and the economic structure in other countries is stuck …
Appraisal Fraud and Facts: Essential to Securitization Scam Read More »
Since the Fed can create unlimited money, why not pay off every mortgage in the land? That’s only $9.7 trillion, and if the Fed wanted to unleash an orgy of spending, that would certainly do it. Trillions in losses would be filled with “free money,” since the Fed would pay the full value of all …
Federal Reserve Money Laundering For Dirty Banks Read More »
Wall Street is gearing up to buy properties en masse from Fannie, Freddie and other holders (including the Federal Reserve. The question for these investors is what are they buying and what are they doing? I think these sales represent an attempt to create a filler for an empty hole in the title chain. we …
BULK SALES OF MORTGAGE LOANS: WHAT ARE THEY BUYING? Read More »
STANDARD CHARTERED accused of conducting secret money laundering transactions with Iran. “Mr Lawsky has accused the bank, which employs nearly 90,000 people worldwide, of breaking money-laundering rules and processing $250bn of transactions on behalf of Iranian clients. The regulator has given the bank until next week to “demonstrate why [the bank’s] license to operate in …
Federal Reserve Vs. Treasury Dept. Fight Over Shaming the Banks Read More »
