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If you don’t understand why the bundling of mortgages at the level of the investment banks is important to your case(s) involving securitized mortgages, then you don’t “get it” yet. It isn’t that you need to be an expert in securitization to win cases at the loan level and foreclosures, it is that you need to know key factors that affect the title, liability and ownership of the home, the obligation, note and mortgage. The inquiry referred to below runs to the heart of this issue.
WRONG QUESTION: People are asking where is my loan? What is the name of the Trust in which my loan is located? They should be asking what trust(s) or pools CLAIM to have an interest in your loan and do they really have it. That’s why the COMBO Title and Securitization Analysis, the Forensic Analysis and the Loan Level Accounting is so important. People ask “how do I prove which trust owns the pool?” Wrong question. The party seeking foreclosure needs to prove up ownership, not you. The real question is how do you turn the Judges head to see that your denial of the default, your denial of the mortgage, note and obligation is anything more than a delay tactic?
The banks and many “experts” are busy explaining securitization as though the loans were actually securitized. They were not. And THAT is of key relevance as to who can declare a default, whether they even know if there is a default, and the identity of the party(ies) who can enforce the obligation. It isn’t that you are required to prove THEIR case, it is all about knowing when to raise objections, what evidence to demand (knowing what the result will be) and creating insurmountable obstacles to the pretender lenders who don’t have a dime in the deal but want to foreclose anyway.
If you know the securitization scheme, because you have a report and analysis in your had, and you know how to use it because you have attended our seminar, you are standing in a much stronger position than simply quoting the blog. Knowing the truth is one thing, knowing what to do with the truth is another.
Here was have a story about how the only two states under whose laws these so-called trusts were created, are investigating to see if the trusts exists, and if so, what is in them. What they are going to find is that there is no trust because there is nothing in them. Your loan, although claimed by the trust, never made it into the pool. It never made it into the pool because (a) the mortgages, notes and closing documentation were defective in the first instance and (b) they never even made the attempt to cover their mess up with paperwork until they were challenged in court — years after the deadlines when they might have claimed any such right.
But they are also going to find that the money trail tells a a whole different story. The loan transaction wasn’t between the homeowner and the payee on the note. It was between the homeowner and the investor-lender. But the investor lender got an entirely different set of paperwork than the paperwork given to the homeowner at the closing of the loan. And the paperwork given to the investor-lender was rife with errors, lies and misleading statements. These offices of Attorney general in New York and Delaware are going to find that the entire chain is corrupted, that the only document in the registry of title in the County in which the property is located is a mortgage securing an obligation that does not exist — because it secures an obligation as described on a note signed by the homeowner containing the wrong parties and the wrong terms.
And so they are going to find out that there could be some type of enforcement of the undocumented obligation (not the note), but there won’t be because the investor-lenders are not interested in getting into pitched battle with homeowners, nor do they want to take a position in court that would be construed as an admission against their own interest. The admission would be that the mortgage documents were legal, valid and enforceable. The investors are saying that the mortgages were garbage and unenforceable when they sue the investment bankers for 100 cents on the dollar. The pretenders are trying to bootstrap their own intentional scrambling of the documentation into a right to claim property and take the homeowner out from his dwelling on the strength of defective documents — not on the strength of a case where the homeowner borrower money from them, owes them any money or even knew of their existence when the loan was closed.
Two States Ask if Paperwork in Mortgage Bundling Was Complete
Opening a new line of inquiry into the problems that have beset the mortgage loan process, two state attorneys general are investigating Wall Street’s bundling of these loans into securities to determine whether they were properly documented and valid.
The investigation is being led by Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, who has teamed with Joseph R. Biden III, his counterpart from Delaware. Their effort centers on the back end of the mortgage assembly lines — where big banks serve as trustees overseeing the securities for investors — according to two people briefed on the inquiry but who were not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The attorneys general have requested information from Bank of New York Mellon and Deutsche Bank, the two largest firms acting as trustees. Trustee banks have not been a focus of other investigations because they are administrators of the securities and did not originate the loans or service them. But as administrators they were required to ensure that the documentation was proper and complete.
Both attorneys general are investigating other practices that fueled the mortgage boom and subsequent bust. The latest inquiry represents another avenue of scrutiny of the inner workings of Wall Street’s mortgage securitization machine, which transformed individual home loans into bundles of loans that were then sold to investors.
It follows months of sharp criticism of the mortgage foreclosure process, which produced an uproar last year over shoddy paperwork and possible forgeries of legal documents by banks, other lenders or their representatives.
The slipshod practices in foreclosures led to further questions about whether all the necessary documents were delivered to the trusts and properly administered by them.
Some of the nation’s biggest mortgage servicers are currently in negotiations with a group of state attorneys general to settle an investigation into foreclosure abuses. The new inquiry by New York and Delaware indicates the big banks’ troubles may not end even if a settlement is reached in the foreclosure matter.
The stakes are potentially high. If the trustees did not follow the rules set out in the prospectus, they may be liable for breaching their duties to investors who bought the securities. That could expose the banks to costly civil litigation.
Spokesmen from Bank of New York and Deutsche Bank declined to comment about the investigation, as did representatives from the offices of both attorneys general.
A complex process that produced hundreds of billions of dollars in securities during the lending boom, the issuance of mortgage securities began with home loans, which were then bundled into investments and sold to pension funds, mutual funds, big banks and other investors. The bundles were created as trusts overseen by institutions such as Bank of New York and Deutsche Bank; they were supposed to make sure the complete mortgage files for each loan were delivered within a specified time and with the proper documentation.
After the securities were sold, the trustees disbursed interest and principal payments to investors over the life of the trusts.
The trusts were governed by the laws of the states in which they were set up. Roughly 80 percent of the trusts are governed by New York law with the rest by Delaware law.
The rules governing the securitization process are labyrinthine, and there are steps required if the investment is to comply with tax laws and promises made by the issuer in its offering document. If the trusts did not comply with tax laws, for example, the beneficial treatment given to investors could be rescinded, causing taxes to be levied on the transactions.
The terms of these mortgage deals varied, but many of them required that the trustee examine each of the loan files as soon as they came in from the Wall Street firm or bank issuing the security. For a file to be complete, it would typically have to include all of the information necessary to establish a chain of ownership through the various steps of the bundling process, as when the originator transferred it to the issuer of the security who then moved it to the trustee.
Complete loan files were supposed to be delivered to the trusts within 90 days in most cases. If the trustee found any missing or defective documents, it was supposed to notify the loan originator so that it could either cure the deficiency or replace the loan. Such substitutions are typically allowed only in the early years of the trust.
By asking for documents relating to this process, investigators are trying to determine if the trustees fulfilled their obligations to the investors who bought the mortgage deals, according to the people briefed on the inquiry.
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