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Group Action!!!! Now There's an Idea! Group negotiates en masse with lenders

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Submitted on 2008/12/14 at 7:46pm Community leaders in Pacoima and other northeast San Fernando Valley areas have organized more than 500 Latino immigrant families to negotiate with banks as a group rather than individually. By Jessica Garrison L. A. Times December 8, 2008 Shortly after Father John Lasseigne took over last summer as head of …

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Livinglies Discovers where the documents and emails are kept by whom

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It was only a matter of time. This is probably the tip of the iceberg. index.htm “Autonomy ZANTAZ is renowned for its blue chip customer base including diverse and global corporations ranging across industry sectors and geographies, including banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, medical products, biotech, healthcare, entertainment, energy, law firms and litigation services. Furthermore, US and …

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Executive Accused of Mortgage-Securities Scheme – EVERYONE HAS BEEN PAID AT LEAST ONCE, 100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, PLUS FEES AND PROFITS. NOW THEY WANT YOUR HOUSE TOO. ARE YOU GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN?

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DECEMBER 12, 2008 Editor’s Note: They would have us believe that this was an exception to the rule. It wasn’t. In fact this WAS the rule. The reasons why Wall Street was awash in money were (a) they were successfully selling unregulated securities under false pretenses and false ratings and (b) they pressured guys like …

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Ponzi Scheme According to FBI — Billions of dollars in Fraud — and they want your house too?

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madoffcomplaint madoff-and-the-rest-of-wall-street-after-receiving-17page-report-sec-does-nothing-same-withy-mortgage-meltdown DECEMBER 11, 2008, 7:08 P.M. ET Madoff Charged With Securities Fraud By AMIR EFRATI, TOM LAURICELLA and DIONNE SEARCEY Madoff.com Bernard Madoff Bernard L. Madoff, the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities and a fixture of the Wall Street trading world for decades, was arrested Thursday morning by Federal Bureau of Investigation …

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Covered in the Garfield Continuum Workshops: You Can Look this Stuff Up in Wikopedia

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How to Save $$ while attending Garfield Event(s) Napa CA Jan. 19-20, 2009 registration-homeowners-workshop-jan-20-2009-napa-ca /// registration-lawyers-workshop-jan-19-2009-napa-ca * Reserve Workshop Seat prior to Jan 9, 2009 for Early Bird discount on Registration * Reserve seats before 12/31 to deduct expense from 2008 taxes * Mention Garfield’s Foreclosure Defense Group when reserving rooms to get special Group Rate of $159 …

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Identity Theft, Mers and Other Issues: Great Post from James

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James Henderson, Nevada Editor’s Comment: At the heart of the entire mortgage meltdown is identity theft by the banks and investment banks. They take your identity, merge it with the identities of thousands of other people and sell it to investors under false pretenses leaving you holding the bag not knowing who to pay or …

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MERS Scandal Exposed and Explained

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Kevin Lamson Said, So can anyone guess the name of “organization” that was formed by Countrywide’s, Anthony Mazillo and Fannie Mae’s, James Johnson ten years ago it start with an M? No not the Mafia. It’s Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. commonly referred to as MERS. Yes that’s right Countrywide and Fannie Mae were the …

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Why You Don't Owe the Money

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OK it’s complicated. But I have distilled it down to a few sound bites that more or less captures the basic truth of why you don’t owe the money on that mortgage note, credit card, student loan, auto loan, furniture loan etc. Even small businesses might not owe their small business loans. There are exceptions …

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Argent Mortgage Fraud on Everyone: Surprised? These are just a couple of 10,000 convicted Felons licensed as Mortgage Brokers in Florida

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BORROWERS BETRAYED | I-TEAM SPECIAL REPORT Exec had mortgage racket down to an art Orson Benn has gone to prison for falsifying applications, but a former associate in Homestead still sells mortgages. Borrowers Betrayed Part 4 Orson Benn’s network of mortgage brokers wrote thousands of subprime loans in Miami-Dade which have gone into foreclosure. MIAMI …

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Missal Report Documents New Century Predatory Lending Even After General Counsel Warned Against It — Borrowers May Have Cause of Action Against Auditor KPMG

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Report: New Century’s GC Warned Managers of Subprime Danger Sue Reisinger Corporate Counsel March 31, 2008 Listening to its general counsel might well have saved New Century Financial Corp., once the nation’s second-largest subprime mortgage lender, from plunging into bankruptcy a year ago. That’s one lesson from a 581-page report filed Wednesday by Michael Missal.A …

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MORTGAGE INDUSTRY KNOWS THEY HAVE CHAIN OF TITLE PROBLEMS: COMPANIES SPRINGING UP TO "CORRECT" (I.E, CREATE) DOCUMENTS

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STRAIGHT OFF THE NET THANKS TO READER ALLON HILL IS THE NAME OF THIS PARTICULAR COMPANY. I’M SURE THERE ARE DOZENS OF OTHERS. Assignment Recording Residential or commercial, Agency or private delivery, Allon Hill offers a complete menu of mortgage assignment services. In the past 14 years, Allon Hill has prepared and recorded over 5 …

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From July CNN: Merrill and Others Knew they were selling junk at Triple AAA ratings

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securities consultant says Merrill Lynch knew or should have known the securities they brought to market where overrated (From her website: “She wrote the first letter the SEC posted in February 2007 in response to its proposed rules for the credit rating agencies; she made the case that the NRSRO designation for the rating agencies …

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Fraud in the factum voids the instrument under state law and is a real defense against even an holder in due course.

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Fraud in the factum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Fraud in the Factum is a type of fraud where misrepresentation causes one to enter a transaction without accurately realizing the risks, duties, or obligations incurred. Black’s Law Dictionary (2nd Pocket ed. 2001 pg. 293). This can be when the maker or …

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Oh Yeah? Here is what you say when they are dismissive of your claims

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Notwithstanding your assertions to the contrary, the letter is very specific to the subject mortgage transaction. You are quite right however, that we are questioning virtually every aspect of the transaction because there appears to be questionable behavior on the part of multiple parties in connection with every phase of the loan transaction and subsequent …

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Livinglies Needs Your Help Researching SEC Filings

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If you have access to Bloomberg professional or other such service here is the list of items we might want on any one occasion. Obviously once we have it we don’t need to do it again for the same series of certificates. Wish list would be documents we could lift, paste, print and use in …

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Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR): Home mortgage disclosure act data available

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Home mortgage disclosure act data available The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) announced that the 2007 data compiled under the Federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act are available from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). The data covers mortgage lending transactions throughout the nation at 8,610 financial institutions covered by the Home Mortgage …

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Appraisal and Ratings Fraud Documented

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From Mario Kenny — see comments posted to blog As we have stated repeatedly, the logistics were simple: (a) inflate the value of the mortgage backed securities with fraudulently obtained Triple AAA Ratings and (b) inflating the value of the home with fraudulent and negligent use of false comparable and ignoring time factors. The economics …

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Bush Administration Saw It Coming, Was Told to do Something, Did Nothing

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AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash – Gov’t rejected tougher mortgage rules in 2005 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the …

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Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings enriched themselves by assigning high ratings to bonds backed by mortgages “that were designed to fail”

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NATION’S HOUSING Civil rights complaint targets Wall Street rating firms Moody’s and Fitch’s high ratings of subprime mortgage bonds disproportionately harmed black and Latino home buyers, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges. By Kenneth R. Harney November 30, 2008 In what is apparently the first legal action of its kind, an association of community-based organizations …

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Attorney Fees: You Can't Have it Both Ways and Neither Can They

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From the FAQ Page: COMMENT: I contacted one attorney on your list and had a consult with another firm which is not part of your list but has been referenced quite a few times in the blogs. I have a problem with both and find them a bit predatory (sorry guys and gals) and quite …

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Title Carriers Hit the Fan: Their Solvency in Question

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One of the hidden issues in the mortgage meltdown is the issue of clouded title caused by non-disclosed table-funded loans that were “securitized.” The unquestionable presence of unknown parties, MERS (or MERS like pooling, service and assignment agreements) who at least COULD assert claims on the “borrower’s” obligation, note or mortgage, means that your loan …

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Keep Those Motions, Defenses, Affirmative Defenses, Notice Letters, Counterclaims and Complaints Coming: Banks Are Feeling the Pinch !!!

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With Times Tight, Even Lawyers Get Outsourced By NIRAJ SHETH in Mumbai and NATHAN KOPPEL in New York As the economic crisis deepens in the U.S., some lawyers are making out well — in India. At the Mumbai subsidiary of outsourcer Pangea3 LLC, rows of Indian lawyers at new computers pore over contracts, covenants and …

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