This is one instance in which the industry practice of tricking borrowers into foreclosure becomes crystal clear. The case is also instructive on the terms of so-called “modifications.” The goal in all instances is to use every means at their disposal to trick the borrower into waiving rights and falling into the abyss of foreclosure […]

Tags: “servicer” under 12 C.F.R. § 1024.2(b), CFPB, CitiFinancial, CitiFinancial Company, CitiFinancial Credit Company, CitiFinancial Services, CitiFinancial Servicing, Citigroup Inc, Credit reporting, Deferment, Furnisher
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Tags: AG Biden, Ally, Ally Financial Inc., attorneys general, BAC, bank loan bundling, Bank of America Corp, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BEAR STEARNS, Beau Biden, Bermuda, Beth Kaswan, Biden-Schneiderman, BK, bond trustees, bondholders, bundling of mortgage loans into securities, Catherine Cortez Masto, Citigroup Inc, common law, countrywide, credit default swaps, credit enhancements, DBK, DELAWARE, DEUTSCHE BANK, Eric Schneiderman, follow the money, foreclosure practices, GMAC, IMG Enterprises LLC, Internal revenue Code, investment banks, investors, investors suing banks, Isaac Gradman, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Justice Department, K&L Gates LLP, Laurence Platt, Master Servicer, missing promissory note, mortgage backed securities, mortgage default, mortgage securing terms of the note, mortgage settlement, nonexistent pool, note as evidence of debt, notes with defects, Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System, pension funds, Prospectus, REMIC, Renee Calabro, residential home borrowers, Rick Simon, Schniedermann AG, Scott + Scott LLP, Securities and Exchange Commission, securitization, shoddy foreclosures, Talcott Franklin, taxpayer bailout, Teri Charest, toxic loans, unsecured debt, US Bankcorp, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo & Co, WFC, yield spread premium
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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE I read and analyze everyday and the one thing that is becoming evident is that there are two streams of reporting on the wrongful foreclosures — the one that the Banks write and get published in places like Business Week (see below) and […]

Tags: bankruptcy, borrower, Citigroup Inc, Clayton Services LLP, countrywide, Deloitte & Touch LLP, disclosure, Ernst & Young LLP, Financial Group LLC, foreclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, foreclosures, fraud, JPMorgan Chase & Co, LOAN MODIFICATION, modification, Office of the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, quiet title, rescission, RESPA, securitization, TILA audit, trustee, WEISBAND
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“This will go on for a long time and a lot of people will be indicted,” “The government continues to show that it simply doesn’t understand how this market operated,” Editor’s Note: If you read this carefully, you get a flavor of how the derivative scam adventure involved everyone except its victims. Mind you, there […]

Tags: amnesty agreement, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, Baltimore lawsuit, Bank of America, Bank of America’s municipal derivatives division, Bartley Hildreth, BLOOMBERG NEWS, CDR, CDR Financial Products Inc., Charlie Anderson, Citigroup Inc, co- conspirators., courtesy bids, David Rubin, Dean Pinard, derivatives, Deutsche Bank AG, Dexia SA, Dominick Carollo, Doug Davis, Eden Prairie, Evan Zarefsky, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FGIC, FGIC Capital Market Services, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Financial Security Assurance, Finra, funnel, futures, GE, General Electric Co., GICs, Grant Whitaker, Gruer, guaranteed investment contracts, HERS, Hildreth, Image, Image at Sparks Steak House, indictment, Investment Management Advisory Group Inc., Johan Rosenberg, John Siffert, JPMorgan, Justice Department, Kevin Foster, kickbacks, Laura Hoguet, Lehman Brothers, Loughead, Mark Manchin, Martin Z. Braun, Merrill Lynch & Co., municipal, opaque debt investments, Options, Peter Grimm, Peter Loughhead, Phil Murphy, Pinard, PMI Group Inc., regulators, Robert Jones, Royal Bank of Canada, Rubin, Sam Gruer, Securities and Exchange Commission, sewer authority, Shirley Norton, Sound Capital, Sound Capital Management, Stallone, Steven Goldberg, swaps, U.S. District Court in Manhattan, UBS, Wachovia Corp, West Virginia, West Virginia School Building Authority, William Selway, Wolmark, Zarefsky, Zevi Wolmark
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Investment banks bundled mortgage loans into securities and then often rebundled those securities one or two more times. Those securities were given high ratings and sold to investors, who have since lost billions of dollars on them. Editor’s Note: The significance of this report cannot be overstated. Not only did the investment bankers LOOK for […]

Tags: accounting, Bank of America, BofA, bundled, BURDEN OF PROOF, Charles Koppa, Citigroup Inc, Countrywide Home Loans, damages, Deutsche Bank AG, Fitch ratings, Goldman Sachs, GRETCHEN MORGENSON, guaranteed to fail, injunction, JP Morgan Chase, Louise Story, Merrill Lynch, modifications, Moody's Investor Service, prima facie case, rebundled, securitization, short sales, Standard & Poor's, Substitute Trustee, The New York Times, yield spread premium
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Editor’s Note: This is what we are hearing about. What about the settlements that go unreported? The number of settlements that are off-record (unreported) is unknown but suspected to be very high. [One of the reasons why it is SO important to get the true CURRENT status of the SPV and the true FULL accounting […]

Tags: $600 million, 07-05295, accounting, allocation to the borrower's principal balance, balance due, capital pool, Central District of California (Los Angeles)., Citigroup Inc, class-action lawsuit, Countrywide Financial Corp, Countrywide underwriters, creditors, David E. Rovella, Dean Kitchens, defense of payment, Edvard Pettersson, foreclosure suits, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, HERS, In re Countrywide Financial Corp. Securities Litigation, investors, Jef Feeley, Jennifer Bankston, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Judge Mariana Pfaelzer, KPMG LLP, Labaton Sucharow LLP, monthly statements, Mozilo, New York retirement funds, notices of default, notices of delinquency, notices of sale, payment as a defense, pretender lenders, principal balance, settlements, Shirley Norton, The Daily Journal, U.S. District Court, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Editor’s Note: Here is the problem. As I explained to a Judge last week, if Aunt Alice pays off my obligation then the fact that someone still has the note is irrelevant. The note is unenforceable and should be returned as paid. That is because the note is EVIDENCE of the obligation, it isn’t THE […]

Tags: 09-04083, accounting, AMbac, appointment of a receiver, Aunt Alice, authenticated business records, Bank of America Corp, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, banks, Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, bloomberg.net., Bob Ivry, Citigroup Inc, Clearing House Association, Clearing House Payments Co, competent witnesses, conceivable doubt, credit default swaps, crisis, Deutsche Bank AG, evidence of the obligation, Fed, Freedom of Information Act, HERS, High Court, HSBC Holdings Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Maiden Lane, MERS, motion for lift stay, Obligation, Paul Saltzman, PNC Financial Services Group Inc, proceeds of the borrowers transaction, PSA, receiver, Saltzman, servicers, summary judgment, TALF, TARP, The Clearing House Association LLC, The New York Times, third party sources, Thomas Golden, U.S. Bancorp, U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan, UBS AG, Wells Fargo & Co, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LL
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