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EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m not sure where the piece originated from but it seems credible. I do know that there are approximately 2 dozen lawsuits in the process of being filed or served on law firms that engaged in unlawful robosigning within their offices. “Robosigning” is code for forgery and perjury.

NINE CASES DISMISSED AFTER CLOSED DOOR SESSION IN BALTIMORE

5TH AMENDMENT RIGHTS ISSUE AVOIDED TEMPORARILY

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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Foreclosure Mill Sweatshop Attorneys, Robosigner Notaries Dodge
Grilling After ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Baltimore Court Hearing Yields
Nine Dismissals
In Baltimore, Maryland, The Daily Record reports:
•Until last Monday, hearings on signature irregularities in
foreclosure filings in Baltimore City Circuit Court have made for
surprisingly good courtroom drama. Special Master Elizabeth A. Ritter,
a former prosecutor, has asked tough questions about practices and
processes at three local law firms, and the lawyers on the stand have
either conceded mistakes or faced further grilling.

•Perhaps having read about their predecessors’ experiences, the
Baltimore firm of Wittstadt & Wittstadt P.A. took a different tack
last week. The Wittstadt brothers and their lawyer, along with the
firm’s support staff and their lawyer, showed up in Judge W. Michel
Pierson’s third-floor courtroom in the morning and, after identifying
themselves on the record, consented to moving the whole proceeding
behind closed doors.

•According to a video recording of the proceeding, before he left the
courtroom, Michael Pate turned to his clients, the notaries, and said,
“Watch my stuff, please. If something happens we’re all in trouble,
OK? You guys more than me.”

•But all that happened during the next few minutes, according to court
records filed thereafter, was the firm agreed to dismiss nine of the
10 cases in question, and Judge Pierson agreed to dismiss the show
cause order in the other.

•There would be no cross-examination of veteran attorneys this time,
no notaries invoking their Fifth Amendment rights.

•The Wittstadt firm seemed to have fared better than firms like
Shapiro & Burson LLC or Friedman & MacFadyen P.A., but they were in no
mood to talk about it as they left the courthouse. The Wittstadts’
attorney, Timothy M. Gunning, identified himself but would not say
whom he represented. Gerard W. Wittstadt introduced himself as “Mickey
Mouse.”

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