Archive for 'Motions' Category
Jul 23, 2010

STICKIER THAN THEY THINK: These are not the only mortgage securities they hold and they all amount to ownership of the risk on every loan they purchased. The purchase of course was accomplished in one of many ways — direct and indirect. But when you come down to it, between the GSE’s (which are now […]

Jul 18, 2010

GREAT POST BY MATT WEIDNER even if the instant motion was timely, the explanations offered by plaintiff’s counsel, in his affirmation in support of the instant motion and various documents attached to exhibit F of the instant motion, attempting to cure the four defects explained by the Court in the prior May 2, 2008 decision […]

Jul 9, 2010

NOTES ON HEARINGS W. David Merrill was sworn. He said that he worked for American Home Mortgage Servicing as a senior loan consultant working in mitigation, mediation, and litigation. Hence, the witness only entered the picture long after the loan was declared in default, a notice of default was served, and a notice of sale […]

Jul 6, 2010

6.29.10Bank-of-New-York-v-Michael-Raftogainis[1] Judge Todd also stated that additional discovery is to be produced when the foreclosure involves a securitization, lost note claims, or a holder in due course challenge (which may arise in the context of the purported assignment of a toxic loan to a securitized trust prior to the trustee of that trust instituting a […]

Jul 6, 2010

“Trust me, I’m your friend.” “Hi! I want to be your Lender” (pretender lender) “I’ve got a great deal for you” “Here is the name of the underwriter of your loan.” “Here is the appraisal — it came in higher than your deal.” “You can rely on the appraisal” “It’s a 30 year loan” (1-6 […]

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 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 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 […]

Jun 16, 2010

SUBMITTED BY M SOLIMAN EDITOR’S NOTE: Soliman brings out some interesting and important issues in his dialogue with Raja. The gist of what he is saying about sales accounting runs to the core of how you disprove the allegations of your opposition. In a nutshell and somewhat oversimplified: If they were the lender then their […]