A number of people have been contacting me about the work of people other than my company that produces reports and analysis and expert witnesses and my law firm, Garfield, Gwaltney, Kelley and White based in Tallahassee. My first rule is that I don’t attack or smear anyone who might provide some service that has […]

Tags: appraisers, Expert witnesses, forensic analysts, HUD counselors, investment bankers, lawyers, loan modification programs, mortgage brokers, mortgage originators, real estate brokers, WHISTLEBLOWERS
Posted in Corruption, Eviction |

“of AAA-rated subprime-mortgage-backed securities issued in 2006, 93 percent — 93 percent! — have now been downgraded to junk status.” Editor’s Note: What homeowners and their lawyers, forensic analysts, and experts need to realize is that the ratings scam on Wall street was only one-half of the equation in a scheme to defraud homeowners. If […]

Tags: Appraisal, appraisers, lender, Moody's, PAUL KRUGMAN, Raters, rating agencies, Reg Z, Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Standard & Poor's, TILA, verification
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, foreclosure mill, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

“a ‘thing’ which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price.” Editor’s Note: Think about it. The foundation of the supply of money that was pressure pumped into our economic housing system resulted in inflation of home appraisals. It was so large that everyone thought the […]

Tags: ABX, appraisers, Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre, foreclosure sale, free house, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Gregory White, rating agencies, Scandals, SEC, Times of London., Tourre, Wall Street
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, foreclosure mill, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD ABOUT A BUNCH OF UNSOPHISTICATED, POORLY EDUCATED, SOMETIMES NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE SCATTERED OVER 50 STATES GETTING TOGETHER TO DEFRAUD THE POWERFUL FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ON WALL STREET? We can all agree that there is enough blame to go around for everyone — from government and the financial industry, down […]

Tags: American values, appraisers, conservatism, foreclosure defense, fraud, Honesty, integrity, Lender Liability, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers, Wall Street
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction |

When was the last time you heard of a crowd of debt-ridden consumers cornering the finance market and playing with the economy at their leisure? THE WALL STREET GENIUSES HAD CREATED THIS MONSTER AND THE ONE ENTITY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE VANTAGE POINT OF SEEING THE BIG PICTURE AND THE NEED TO REIN […]

Tags: appraisers, asset backed securities, CONSUMERS, Federal reserve, foreclosure defense, GREENSPAN, mortgage brokers, Paulson, REMIC, VICTIMS
Posted in Eviction |