Archive for 'discovery' Category
May 15, 2018

Payment by third parties may not reduce the debt but it does increase the number of obligees (creditors). Hence in every one of these foreclosures, except for a minuscule portion, indispensable parties were left out and third parties were in reality getting the proceeds of liquidation from foreclosure sales. The explanations of securitization contained on the websites of […]

May 14, 2018

How Black Knight LPS and LoanSphere Control Mortgage Data—and Why Errors Matter Black Knight LPS and its LoanSphere platform sit quietly behind the scenes of millions of mortgage accounts, yet few homeowners understand how much control these systems have over loan boarding, invoicing, and servicing decisions. When a loan is transferred, modified, or pushed toward […]

May 1, 2018

It’s only when you do the work — burrowing into all the data that the truth emerges. From many prior cases it has been obvious that the “boarding process” was a ruse. It was cover for the real parties who were manipulating data to suit their own needs contrary to their duties to the alleged […]

Apr 24, 2018

The entire playbook of the banks and servicers consists of one underlying theme: to obtain foreclosures based upon presumptions that are contrary to the facts. GO TO LENDINGLIES to order forms and services Let us help you plan your answers, affirmative defenses, discovery requests and defense narrative: 954-451-1230 or 202-838-6345. Ask for a Consult. You will make […]

Apr 23, 2018

This decision, although not yet for publication, brings us another step closer to exposure to the largest economic crime in human history. Every lawyer should read it more than once in its entirety. It contains the arguments and the narrative for most successful defense strategies against fraudulent foreclosures. Fundamental to understanding why foreclosures are fraudulent […]

Apr 17, 2018

“Lehman’s own documents show it was aware of the widespread problems and deteriorating performance of the loans it had securitized,” with half the loans at one point containing material misrepresentations, the trustees said in a court filing. Editor’s Note: The difference is money — investors have it and borrower’s don’t. So while investors are successfully litigating […]

Apr 11, 2018

In the final analysis, the only way to smoke out the banks on their fraudulent claims as “creditors” or “agents of creditors” is to create a situation where the creditor must be disclosed. In those cases where judges have ruled in discovery or ruled on the right to prepay, subject to identification of the creditor, […]

Apr 9, 2018

RATIFICATION OF VOID ASSIGNMENTS IS IMPOSSIBLE AND ABSURD In the wake of the California Supreme Court’s decision in Yvanova and its progeny, the legal community has accepted the unacceptable (and the ridiculous). The bottom line of the decision is that a void assignment can be the basis for a lawsuit for wrongful foreclosure but it cannot […]

Apr 9, 2018

Discovery is more complex than lay people realize. There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in court. Our paralegal, Connie Lasco, saw the problems and forwarded the request for service to me for comment. Here is an example of my comments to one homeowner who is defending her home pro […]

Mar 28, 2018

Translation: WFB was the “custodian” of alleged “mortgage-backed” certificates issued for the benefit of investors who paid billions of dollars for ownership of the certificates. WFB “Loaned” those alleged securities to brokers. The brokers in exchange provided “collateral” the proceeds of which were reinvested by WFB. In short, WFB was laundering the investors money for […]