Archive for 'securities fraud' Category
Aug 28, 2012

COME TO THE ANAHEIM 1/2 SEMINAR WEDNESDAY MORNING It appears as though LIBOR is being thrown under the bus as a distraction from the much larger mortgage securitization scam. Both cases relied upon trust that was breached, money that was invented, figures that were fabricated, lying, cheating and inside trading to the detriment of the […]

Aug 27, 2012

Sign Up for Wednesday Anaheim Conference for Homeowners and Paralegals Reality in Iceland: prosecution and letting the chips fall to the table August 27, 2012. Neil F Garfield. Mainstream media and in particular Krugman and Ritholz have echoes what Simon Johnson and I have been saying for years. It’s not a question of theory or […]

Aug 24, 2012

Obama response unclear. He keeps saying that theĀ  object here is not to include “undeserving” borrowers who are just trying to get out of a bad deal a deal that went bad or whose eyes were bigger than their pocket book. As long as he keeps saying that he is missing the whole point. This […]

Aug 23, 2012

Everyone seems to be having trouble with winning these cases outright. I think I have discovered the problem. Most attorneys start in the middle of things because that is how it comes to them. Basic Contracts Law, first day of law school. For an agreement to be enforceable it must have all three of the […]

Aug 22, 2012

JP Morgan, because he can, gets $23 Million for mismanaging a bank with fake assets and losing money hand over foot, while the head of the most profitable bank in the world gets paid $308,000. That means Dimon makes 70 times what a good bank manager makes. The worse you get, the more you get […]

Aug 21, 2012

Editor’s Note: Yves wrote the piece I was going to write this morning. See link below. The salient points to me are mentioned below with comments. The principal point I would make is that Obama has been listening to people who are listening to Wall Street. The Wall Street spin is that this is just […]

Aug 21, 2012

Editor’s Note: Same caveat as before — this consent ruling, although potentially persuasive to other courts is not evidence of the violations in and of itself, but provides a good pep talk to attorneys out there who are too timid to make statements about the treachery in the acts of the Bank of America, and […]

Aug 17, 2012

People are asking in emails and calls why I think this decision from Washington State is so basic and decisive. So here is my answer. If MERS was right, then there would be no point to having a statutory scheme for recording of deeds and mortgages. Let’s take a simple example, if MERS was named […]

Aug 17, 2012

THE WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT DECISION WILL BE USED EXTENSIVELY AT THE EMERYVILLE AND ANAHEIM CLE WORKSHOPS. The Stunning clarity of the decision rendered by the Washington Supreme Court, sitting En Banc, corroborates the statements I have made on this blog and under oath that they might just as well have put the name “Donald Duck” […]

Aug 15, 2012

Whether it is just battle fatigue or simply good business sense, homeowners are looking at short sales, getting cash for keys and trying to get relocation fees to move. The banks are loosening up their standards for short-sales because failure to do so clearly reveals their malevolent intent to steal homes that they could not […]