Submitted by Ann: Article by Matt Weidner, Esq. Florida Attorney 2010/06/21 at 10:49 pm US BANK AS TRUSTEE CAN’T FORECLOSE From http://www.mattweidnerlaw.com/blog Judge Vacates Final Judgment and Sale- Foreclosure Courts are Courts of Equity! We’ve all seen it and it happens too often…Borrower is in a formal modification with the lender or servicer or has fallen victim to a foreclosure…[...]

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2009-ohio-2650 Chase Bank Loses Bid to foreclose Based Upon chain of Title Upon review, Chase's arguments are meritless. Although Chase's status as a bona fide mortgagee could perhaps have saved it from an unknown encumbrance on the title, in this case, the mortgagor and former executor, Shirley Smith, never had valid title to the subject property.[...]

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First they started with servicers bringing foreclosures, and that didn't work. Then they tried MERS to bring foreclosures, and that didn't work. Then they tried backdated, fabricated and forged documents from non-existent originators with signatures from phantom people as "limited signing officer" or "assistant vice president" and that is going down the drain. Now they are bringing foreclosures in the…[...]

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6 13 10investors-suing-chase-includes-list-of-mortgage-backed-securities-various-originators-like-new-century-wamu-wells-fargo-resmae-greenpoint-coun As Weidner points out, these cases are well worth your time in research. With their minions of lawyers, they have more information that is industry specific than you can accumulate or absorb. Investors are aligning themselves with the interests of the borrowers. Here they are attacking the false representations of underwriting standards, but more importantly, they are…[...]

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The Foreclosing Plaintiffs Created The Crisis Through Fraud and Crimes At The Highest Levels Today, June 19, 2010, 2 hours ago | Matthew D. Weidner, Esq. The foreclosure crisis that continues to grip our courts in 2010 and that will only get worse in years to come all began in 2005, 2006, 2007, when the mortgage industry and Wall Street…[...]

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submitted by Abby 2010/06/17 at 2:25 pm FROM CALIFORNIA ATTY. GENERAL BROWN re: short sales News Release June 17, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: (510) 622-4500 Contact: Christine Gasparac or Evan Westrup, (510) 622-4500 Christine.Gasparac@doj.ca.gov or Evan.Westrup@doj.ca.gov Print Version Brown Issues Warning about Rise of Short Sale Fraud LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today joined the…[...]

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The model concluded that roughly one-third of the loans were for amounts that were 105 percent or more of the underlying property’s value. Roughly 5.5 percent of the loans in the pools had appraisals that were lower than they should have been. In one pool with 3,543 loans, for example, the CoreLogic model had enough information to evaluate 2,097 loans.…[...]

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submitted by Frank D'Anna Writ of Mandate 2 Frank D'Anna COMMENT: I don't know if Frank got help, but however he did it, this is a fine piece of work. He obviously understands that if you want to take an appeal, you must state a reason that the trial court erred. If you want to win it, you better come…[...]

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Editor's Note: The cost of taking over foreclosed homes greatly exceeds the principal reductions that are inevitable anyway. Either way the taxpayer foots the bill. As usual, big business and government have taxpayers paying the higher bill. Here is how the narrative ran. The trillion dollar banks and some "smaller" ones used all their influence over the media and lawmakers…[...]

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Triangle Business Journal - by Chris Baysden The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Thursday the creation of a new Mortgage Fraud Task Force for the district. The task force will pool the resources of existing criminal and civil attorneys in the office as well as federal law enforcement agencies with the goal of fast…[...]

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