Archives by Tag ' DAVID DAYEN '
Oct 12, 2016

http://www.vice.com/read/when-you-buy-a-house-but-dont-actually-own-it Danny Shedd’s nightmare began with some cows. When Shedd, a 12-year veteran with combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, finished up his military service at Fort Benning, Georgia, he and his wife, Jacinda, wanted to move to the prairie. The house they settled on in Big Cabin, Oklahoma, was perfect: a 5,400 square-foot, four-bedroom […]

Sep 25, 2016

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/24/1572040/-Five-questions-with-David-Dayen-about-foreclosure-fraud-activism-and-hope David Dayen (dday to old-timers at Daily Kos) has been the most single most dogged journalist digging into the massive fraud perpetuated on American homeowners in the last decade, the fraud that almost brought down the global economy. In fact, he wrote the book on it—Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great […]

Sep 15, 2016

Elizabeth Warren Asks Newly Chatty FBI Director to Explain Why DOJ Didn’t Prosecute Banksters Like a lot of other Americans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to know why the Department of Justice hasn’t criminally prosecuted any of the major players responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. On Thursday, Warren released two highly provocative letters demanding some explanations. […]

Aug 31, 2016

http://www.vice.com/read/the-only-person-jailed-for-the-foreclosure-crisis-will-soon-go-free Lorraine Brown, the lone American convicted of a crime for the mass production of bogus documents used to illegally kick people out of their homes, will be released from prison in Pittsfield Township, Michigan, this week. After serving the minimum 40 months of a 20-year maximum state sentence, Brown is set to be paroled […]

Jul 5, 2016

Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents June 17 2016, 10:43 a.m. Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding “missing” documents required to “complete” broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale — […]

May 19, 2016

[wpvideo NqykIqTB] Chain of Title should be required reading in every college-level business ethics class in America. At a time when “business ethics” is an oxymoron, perhaps the current generation that adores Bernie Sanders might better understand the dangers big banking monopolies hold. David Dayen’s book, Chain of Title, unearths a system with the power […]

May 19, 2016

[wpvideo NqykIqTB] Listen to David Dayen tonight on the Neil Garfield Show at 6 pm EST. Click in to tune in The Neil Garfield Show Or call in at (347) 850-1260. Chain of Title should be required reading in every college-level business ethics class in America. At a time when “business ethics” is an oxymoron, […]

Feb 25, 2013

“Furthermore, evidence of the DocX forgery and fabrication process could be used to reach even higher. Who directly solicited the company for fake documents? The foreclosure mill law firms, which then knowingly submitted them into courts. Who directed the foreclosure mills to do that? The mortgage servicers, which are typically units of the biggest banks. Furthermore, there’s no reason to […]

Dec 8, 2011

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT “Resistance to illegal foreclosures should be a staple of this movement. It is no different than a citizen’s arrest, blowing the whistle on the theft of a home. Banks who cannot prove ownership of a property force people onto the street so they […]