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BLOOMBERG: HOA V BOA: Homeowner Associations Step Up the Pressure on Banks

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO RESERVE SEATING AT HAWAII WORKSHOP GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE Homeowner Associations Wake Up to Collections and Profit!! FORECLOSING ON THE BANK!! EDITOR’S COMMENT: Becker and Poliakoff in South Florida is probably the largest law firm representing homeowner associations in the U.S. Once upon a …

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GOLDMAN WEB OF DECEIT AND TAX EVASION: BKR TRUSTEE SUES FOR FRAUD

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE Lee Farkas of TBW was right when he said, “I could rob a bank with a pencil.” AUCTION SALES INCOMPLETE FOR NON-PAYMENT: TRUSTEE DEED SHOULD NOT BE ISSUED SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE COULD BE SUED FOR DAMAGES EDITOR’S COMMENT: It’s like a checklist of things …

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GOLDMAN SACHS EXECS BRACE THEMSELVES FOR SUBPOENAS

GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE see www.housingwire.com for full story. EDITOR’S NOTE: When the walls start to crumble as they are at Goldman, BOA, Citi and Chase, the biggest fear that emerges is who is going to “flip” and turn into the prosecution’s star witness. Then the race starts to be …

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MEGABANKS LOSE THEIR LUSTER AS INVESTIGATIONS AND LAWSUITS PERSIST

GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE BANK STOCKS HEADING LOWER AS BALANCE SHEETS DON’T ADD UP EDITOR’S NOTE: At the end of the day, everybody knows everything. Goldman is losing its grip on the narrative. You can’t fool all the people all the time. If the pools were empty and the mortgage …

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NY STARTS NEW INVESTIGATION OF MEGABANKS ON MORTGAGES and FORECLOSURES

GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE BANKS LOOKING TO NY FED FOR PROTECTION EDITOR’S NOTE: Maybe this will wipe that arrogant smirk off their faces. Again the investigations are renewed after it seemed they were giving up. Just as the financial regulatory agencies followed up an SEC settlement with Goldman, they all, …

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WHISTLEBLOWER SUITS IDENTIFIES FRAUD IN AIG BAILOUT: FOLLOW THE MONEY, NOT THE PAPER

SEE LIVINGLIES LITIGATION SUPPORT AT LUMINAQ.COM EDITOR’S ANALYSIS: Don’t get intimidated. This is actually very simple. The Federal Reserve window and other “facilities” were made available to the tune of $7 TRILLION dollars (half of the debt ceiling in its current form) in order to ease the liquidity problem. The belief was that by saving …

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Bankruptcy Trustee Accuses banks of Manipulating "Margin Calls" on Mortgage Bonds

SEE LIVINGLIES LITIGATION SUPPORT AT LUMINAQ.COM COLLUSIVE SCHEME ALLEGED EDITORIAL COMMENT: WELL it looks like this is not over yet. The accusations are right on target — the more they drill down the more they find which is what we have been saying on Livinglies for 3 1/2 years. That’s what we keep doing in …

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“Keep your fingers crossed but I think we will price this just before the market falls off a cliff,” a Deutsche Bank manager wrote in February 2007

CLE SEMINAR: SECURITIZATION WORKSHOP FOR ATTORNEYS — REGISTER NOW SEE LIVINGLIES LITIGATION SUPPORT AT LUMINAQ.COM Categorized | STOP FORECLOSURE FRAUD Internal emails indicate Deutsche Bank knew they were bankrolling toxic mortgages by Ameriquest and others iWatch In 2007, the report says, Deutsche Bank rushed to sell off mortgage-backed investments amid worries that the market for …

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PAYBACK TIME: $5.1 IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES AGAINST SERVICER ON A $79K CASE

COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary “In short, loan servicing is a perfect setup for administrators who want to take advantage of both borrowers and lenders.” (Editor’s Note: Notice that the investors are referred to as lenders, hence the term “pretender lender” as to all others pretending to be lenders.) “The …

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The Truth? Read Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone

64868?RS_show_page=0 EDITOR’S NOTE: How refreshing to see someone who approached this not with caution but with a desire for truth. Read this and you will understand a lot more about the Great Recession. “The “Pig in the Poke” scam is another key to the entire bailout era. After the crash of the housing bubble — …

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Ratings Arbitrage a/k/a Fraud

Investment banks bundled mortgage loans into securities and then often rebundled those securities one or two more times. Those securities were given high ratings and sold to investors, who have since lost billions of dollars on them. Editor’s Note: The significance of this report cannot be overstated. Not only did the investment bankers LOOK for …

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Borrower Bailout?: Goldman Sachs Conveyor Belt

If you have a GSAMP securitized loan you might want to pay particular attention here. In fact, if you ever had a securitized loan of any kind you should be very interested. Hudson Mezzanine: The use of the word “mezzanine” is like the use of the word “Trust.” There is no mezzanine and there is …

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Tourre: The CDO's I Create Are "Pure Intellectual Masturbation"

“a ‘thing’ which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price.” Editor’s Note: Think about it. The foundation of the supply of money that was pressure pumped into our economic housing system resulted in inflation of home appraisals. It was so large that everyone thought the …

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Goldman Sachs Messages Show It Thrived as Economy Fell

Editor’s Note: Now the truth as reported here two years ago. There were no losses. They were making money hand over fist. And this article focuses only on a single topic — some of the credit default swaps — those that Goldman had bought in its own name, leaving out all the other swaps bought …

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Discovery Hints: Goldman Sachs may not be the only firm in SEC cross hairs

REGISTER NOW FOR DISCOVERY AND MOTION PRACTICE WORKSHOP 5/23-24 Editor’s Notes: These lawsuits from the SEC, the Class Action lawyers etc., are already producing fall-out — dozens of articles and production of secret emails etc. that can only help your case. Follow them closely as they will inevitably lead to admissible evidence of what you …

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The Narrative Has Shifted: Take Advantage of it

Your allegations of intentional misdeeds, fabricated documents and forgeries have new life now that the SEC is hot on the trail of the wrongdoers in a very public way. As the news sinks in more and more Judges, lawyers and experts and forensic analysts will see their role more as a commitment to justice than …

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Discovery Issues Revealed: PRINCIPAL REDUCTION IS A RIGHT NOT A GIFT – CA Class Action V BOA on TARP funds

REGISTER NOW FOR DISCOVERY AND MOTION PRACTICE WORKSHOP MAY 23-24 PRINCIPAL REDUCTION IS A RIGHT NOT A GIFT. IF THE OBLIGATION HAS BEEN PAID BY THIRD PARTIES, THEN THE OBLIGATION HAS ALREADY BEEN REDUCED. THE ONLY FUNCTION REMAINING IS TO DO THE ACCOUNTING. ” There should be no doubt in your mind now that virtually …

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SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud: Complaint Reveals Discovery Tips

see comp-pr2010-59 SEC Complaint V GS Fraud “The Commission seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement of profits, prejudgment interest and civil penalties from both defendants.” Editor’s Note: Here is where the rubber meets the road. This same pool of illegal fraudulent profit is also subject to being defined as an undisclosed yield spread premium due to the …

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Goldman Sachs – Wells Fargo SEC Filings –DISCOVERY REQUESTS

GSAMP 8K INCLUDES SEVERAL SCHEDS AND SWAP INFO FORM 10-D ASSET-BACKED ISSUER GSAMP DISTRIBUTION REPORT for January 29 2008 FORM 10-D ASSET-BACKED ISSUER DISTRIBUTION REPORT for January 29 2008 SEC INDEX OF FILING GSAMP Wells Fargo-Thornburg reconstituted Pooling and Service Agreement Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Custodian has made no determination and makes …

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Forensic Analysis: Unions Amass Armory of Research on Foreclosures of Securitized Mortgages

“We did not service the loan,” Mr. Dale said. “We did not originate the loan, and we were not the financial entity that placed it into foreclosure. Do you understand what a trustee does?” Editor’s Note: Well, Yes Mr. Dale, we do understand what a trustee does and can do —- nothing. So why are …

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Goldman and JPM Still Playing with Other People's Money

The five biggest U.S. commercial banks in the derivatives market — JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. — account for 97 percent of the notional value of derivatives held in the banking industry [$605 trillion], according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Goldman Sachs Demands …

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Lehman Execs and Auditors Face Civil and Criminal Inquiries and Lawsuits

This is pretty aggressive and pretty abusive. I don’t know how under GAAP this follows the rules whatsoever,” he said, referring to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.“That reeks of an auditor who, rather than being really truly independent, is beholden to management,” he said, adding that the S.E.C. and the Justice Department should follow up on …

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Goldman analysis: Thumbs Up for Health Insurance Companies

Maybe the fact that it came from Goldman will motivate some people to take a second look at where we are on health care. Goldman likes the two biggest health insurance companies because it says profits are going up due to lack of competition and lack of regulation. Like the foreclosure mess, the fact that …

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An Investigator Presses to Uncover Bailout FACTS: Neil Barofsky

And then there is the main question which everyone on Wall Street is stonewalling: were the obligations created in mortgage origination paid off by government or insurance? To put it another way, were the homeowners already bailed out and don’t know it? Editor’s Comment: Barofsky is like Elizabeth Warren — someone Wall Street doesn’t like, …

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