Archive for 'expert witness' Category
Jul 6, 2010

I like this post from a reader in Colorado. Besides knowing what he is talking about, he raises some good issues. For example the original issue discount. Normally it is the fee for the underwriter. But this is a cover for a fee on steroids. They took money from the investor and then “bought” (without […]

Jul 3, 2010

It is hard to state this strongly enough. The entire mortgage backed securitization structure was based upon FRAUD. An intentional misstatement of a material fact known to be untrue and which the receiving party reasonably relies to his detriment is fraud. BOTH ends of this deal required fraud for completion. The investors had to believe […]

Jul 2, 2010

Having just received the transcript on this case, I find that what the Judge said could be very persuasive to other Judges. I am renewing the post because there are several quotes you should be using from the transcript. Note the intimidation tactic that Plaintiff’s Counsel tried on the Judge. A word to the wise, […]

Jul 2, 2010

As some of you knew or probably have guessed, livinglies is a lightening rod for information. We have posts like the one below on the comments and emails sent with details that are neither for attribution or publication. In addition, several people in sensitive government positions use livinglies as a method of getting the real […]

Jul 2, 2010

The article below was purloined from www.foreclosureblues.wordpress.com — the comments are mine. Neil Garfield “According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Deutsche Bank now holds loans for American single-family and multi-family houses worth about $3.7 billion (€3.1 billion). The bank, however, claims that much of this debt consists of loans to wealthy private customers. (EDITOR’S […]

Jun 21, 2010

The model concluded that roughly one-third of the loans were for amounts that were 105 percent or more of the underlying property’s value. Roughly 5.5 percent of the loans in the pools had appraisals that were lower than they should have been. In one pool with 3,543 loans, for example, the CoreLogic model had enough […]

Jun 21, 2010

submitted by Frank D’Anna Writ of Mandate 2 Frank D’Anna COMMENT: I don’t know if Frank got help, but however he did it, this is a fine piece of work. He obviously understands that if you want to take an appeal, you must state a reason that the trial court erred. If you want to […]

Jun 18, 2010

Got this off the “Mortgage Servicing News” newsletter: June 16, 2010 Investigation Highlights Challenges to Foreclosure Docs By Kate Berry The backlash is intensifying against banks and mortgage servicers that try to foreclose on homes without all their ducks in a row. Because the notes were often sold and resold during the boom years, many […]

Jun 18, 2010

From usedkarguy To: M. Soliman, I wrote to Neils’ blog over 10 months ago stating the exact facts that you are promulgating here in this recent post. I have been in litigation for over a year now and have been removed to US Dist. Court recently, at the behest of Deutsche Bank. They have brought […]

Jun 17, 2010

“The fraud here is truly stunning in its scale and complexity,” said Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice. “These charges send a strong message to corporations and corporate executives alike that financial fraud will be found, and it will be prosecuted.” Once they determined that that […]