Shame is the reason why most borrowers don’t contest foreclosures. That shame turns to intense anger when they realize that they were used, screwed, abused and now they are targets in a continuing blitz to embezzle much needed money from their lives and from the financial system generally. The genius behind companies like Citi is… […]

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The way that borrowers lose cases is by picking out one thing from a case or statute and treating it as a magic bullet. If the law were that simple a computer would be deciding all cases. The distinctions between possessors of a note, rights to enforce, status as a holder, owning the debt and […]

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For quite some time, the courts have struggled with the concept of primary liability for a lying liar and secondary liability for a liar who passes on the lie knowing that it was a lie. Scotus, in the Lorenzo decision has now said that is a distinction without a difference. It is not a secondary […]

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In order to maintain the illusion of legality and an orderly marketplace the banks and their servicers must continue to push foreclosures even if it means going after people who are not actually withholding payments. The legacy of the mortgage meltdown and the brainless government policies that let the banks get away with what they […]

Tags: Buffalo foreclosures, claimant, debt ownership, equity, foreclosure proceeds, injured party, New Jersey foreclosures, securitization, US BANK, Wells Fargo
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Think of it this way: If someone wrote you a check for $100, which would you do? (1) make a digital copy of the check and then shred it or (2) take it to the bank? Starting with the era in which banks made what is abundantly clear as false claims of securitization the banks […]

Tags: DESTROYED NOTE, Elizabeth Warren, Florida bankers Association, Florida Supreme Court, Katie Porter, lost note, pretender lenders
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A new report from the Federal Reserve Board identifies the central issues confronting regulators — issues that regulators have avoided assiduously. The bottom line is that the FED knows that it lacks accurate information and knows that it is not confirming information given to it by banks who are now all in the background of […]

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If you are going to challenge a foreclosure or sue for wrongful foreclosure and fraud, you need to know what you are doing and know what your opposition has been doing. You also must know what to do about it because knowing is not enough. You need to convince a judge who starts from a […]

Tags: drafting, TRUTH
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Departing from my usual format, there are a few things I want to say to people who are looking for relief from foreclosure and are hearing what they want to hear. ONLY A COURT ORDER CAN STOP A FORECLOSURE. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS YOU CAN’T GET A COURT ORDER UNLESS YOU FOLLOW THE RULES AND […]

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By using the methods of magicians who distract the viewer from what is really happening the banks have managed to hoodwink even the victims and their lawyers into thinking that collection and foreclosure on “securitized” loans are real and proper. Nobody actually stops to ask whether the named claimant is actually going to receive the […]

Tags: ABS, AIG, CERTIFICATES, derivatives, Fitch, Goldman Sachs, MBS, Moody, securitization, Servicer advances, Standard and Poor
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The simple fact is that the REMIC trusts do not exist in the real world. The parties named as trustees — e.g. US Bank, Deutsch, BONY/Mellon — are trust names that are used by permission through what is essentially a royalty agreement. If you are dealing with a trust then you are dealing with a […]

Tags: BONY, community banks, Deutsch, HSBC, LaSalle bank, Mellon, risk assessments, US BANK, Zuni
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