LEE COUNTY FLORIDA JUDGES: BANK INFLUENCE AND CORRUPTION ON DISPLAY

Leaked document shows Lee Co. judges tried to fix foreclosure error

A 4 In Your Corner investigation reigning in Lee County foreclosure judges? Judges not requiring banks to show how much homeowners owe…even though they’re supposed to.

Now, a leaked document has surfaced…showing Lee judges trying to fix their error.

Fighting foreclosure, Scott Shinneman and his lawyer Todd Allen realized there were 4 mortgage payments unaccounted for on his loan.

Scott: “They don’t know what our home’s worth; they don’t know how much we owe, we don’t know how much we owe. I can’t get an answer as to what we owe.”

So Allen asked the court to make bank Wells Fargo attach documents showing what his client owed… As the court’s own rules require.

Then came an order stating – in black-and-white – Lee County is not requiring banks comply with Florida rules.

Well that document went viral – posted on foreclosurehamlet.org, foreclosurefraud.org and 4-In-Your Corner’s story appearing in a national finance magazine.

Allen: “It’s dated December 20th, which is ironically 2 days after a second story was published.”

That’s when Allen received this corrective order from Lee County Courts in the mail.

Allen: “The judge is saying I’m going to take what I signed off the record because I’m not going to admit in public that I’m not going to require these people to follow the rules.”

Judge James Thompson writing, “the statement doesn’t reflect the court’s ruling or position,” but then falls short of ordering the bank to include the financial records.

“What he’s not saying in the order is that they have to comply with that.”

An attempt to save face, says Allen, with no real teeth.

“I would have been able to see the records and see the book and be able to review them and possibly find those 4 missing payments and possibly save Scott’s house.”

LIZA FERNANDEZ
FOX 4 IN YOUR CORNER