Mantor for Assessor/Recorder/Clerk of San Diego County Editor’s note: I don’t actually know Mantor so I cannot endorse him personally — but I DO endorse the idea of people running for office on actual issues instead of buzz words and media bullets. Mantor is aiming straight for his issue by running for the Recorder’s Position. […]

Tags: CALIFORNIA, corruption of title, DEED OF TRUST, foreclosure, foreclosure auction rigging, George W. Mantor, investors, Mortgage, note, POLITICS, Wall Street Corruption
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I know from past experience that the prosecuting attorneys at bar associations tend to move in packs. There is actually a pretty good reason for this. Certain practices by attorneys are emulated by other attorneys and spreads from state to state. Based upon a recent decision in New York State, I believe we’re going to […]

Tags: 2008-10218, attorney discipline, Bar grievances, code of professional responsibility, foreclosure mills, imputed knowledge, Matter of Cohen & Slamowitz, New York State, perjury, personal knowledge
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No, there isn’t a case yet. But here is my argument. The main point is that we are forced to accept the burden of disproving a case that had not been filed — the very essence of nonjudicial foreclosure. In order to comply with due process, a simple denial of the facts and legal authority […]

Tags: beneficiary, BURDEN OF PROOF, complex litigation, due process, interpleader, judicial foreclosure, new beneficiary, nonjudicial foreclosure, structured finance, Substitution of Trustee, Trustee on deedof trust, trustee on MBS
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So far he is three for three and he has no plans to stop filing complaints against notaries who signed false, fabricated affidavits. Ken McLeod (Arizona) is about the best investigator for economic crimes that I have ever come across. I won’t publish his number because the last time I did that he was swamped […]

Tags: affidavit, Ken McLeod, licenses, notary, NULLIFICATION OF INSTRUMENT, recording instruments, revocation, testimony, validity of instrument
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Editor’s Comment: One of the interesting things about this case is where we all stood on application of law back in 1979 versus what goes on now. If you read the entire case — pointed out to me by “KC” in her comments to the blog, you see how the court approached this case in […]

Tags: 600 P.2d 573 (Wash. Ct. App. 1979), MGIC FIN. v. HA Briggs Co.
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bony-v-romero_nm-sup.ct.-reverses-with-instruction_2-14 There are a lot of things that could be analyzed in this case that was very recently decided (February 13, 2014). The main take away is that the New Mexico Supreme Court is demonstrating that the judicial system is turning a corner in approaching the credibility of the intermediaries who are pretending to be […]

Tags: ABUSIVE LOAN PRACTICES, assignments, bank of new york, business records exception, competency of witness, DANIEL YOHALEM, endorsements, FEDERAL PREEMMPTION --- OCC STATEMENT, FREDERICK ROWE, hearsay, HLPA, holder of note, JOSEPH ROMERO, JOSHUA SIMMS, JUDICIAL SELF GOVERNANCE, JURISDICITION, KATHERINE ELIZABETH MURRAY, liar loans, MARY ROMERO, MERS, New Mexico, NEW MEXICO ATTORNEY, personal knowledge, POPULAR FINANCIAL SERVICES MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATE SERIES #2006, RIGHT TO ENFORCE MORTGAGE, RIGHT TO ENFORCE NOTE, standing, Supreme Court, UCC AND FORECLOSURES
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Whether it is on voir dire, which is a limited examination before the witness testifies to determine the legal competency of the witness, or on actual cross examination, the object is to bring out facts that are helpful in making your case or defending your position. When I teach cross examination, I refer to the […]

Tags: cross examination, foreclosure trials, hearsay, lack of foundation, leading question, objections at trial, triads, voir dire
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It is easy to think of the mortgage meltdown as a period of time in which the banks went wild. Unfortunately that period of time never ended. They are still doing it. The level of sophistication it takes to do the kinds of things that banks have been doing for the last 20 years is […]

Tags: Barclays (BCS), Citigroup (C), Deutsche Bank (DB), foreign exchange, forex, HSBC, JPMorgan (JPM), mortgage loans, RBS, subprime, UBS, Wells Fargo
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Among the many insurance companies that paid off loans or assets based on loans, MGIC. Off 2400 loans a month of January alone, which appears to be virtually all residential mortgages. Press the reason that nobody is paying any attention to this is that normally the insurer acquires the claim through a legal process called […]

Tags: credit default swaps, mortgage insurance, Servicer advances
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Maybe it is true that some of the earlier attorneys for the banks were caught by surprise when they learned of fabrication of documents, unauthorized signatures and of course Robo signing. In this case lawyers from the state of Maine face possible discipline for their failure to take appropriate action in over 100 cases. This […]

Tags: Drummmond and Drummond, GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Jeffrey Stephan, Maine Bar Association, Paul Peck, robosigning
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