NY Times: “When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson.” Mr. Lippmann made his pitch to select hedge fund clients, arguing they should short the mortgage market. He sometimes distributed a T-shirt that read “I’m Short […]

Tags: Abacus, ABX, ABX Index, credit default swaps, Dealogic, Deutsch Bank, Egol, Fabrice Tourre, Geithner, Goldman, Greg Lippman, Hudson Mezzanine, I'm short your house, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, James E. McKee, Lewis Sachs, Magnetar, Mariner Investment Group, Michael Barnes, Michael DuVally, Morgan Stanley, Paulson and Company, Pay as You Go, R & R consulting, Securities and Exchange Commission, Soros Fund Management, Standard & Poor's, Sylvain R. Raynes, TABS deals, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tricadia, UBS
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LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SEMINAR IN CLEARWATER, FLORIDA NOV 1-2: INFORMATION ON SEMINAR AND BOOKS Thanks to Jeff and Judge Maltese: “At the time that the plaintiff improperly commenced the action, the pathway to the Courthouse should have been blocked. Deutsche Bank had no legal foundation to foreclose a mortgage in which it […]

Tags: borrower, Deutsch Bank, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, lender, Mortgage, securitization
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Superb Complaint piercing the heart of Deutsch Bank’s authority to collect money, file suit, seeking recovery of property and money through receiver and damages against the lawyers who filed the foreclosure suits. whittiker_v_deutsche_bank_complaint In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, eastern Division, Case no. 1:08CV300, Judge David D. Dowd, Jr. […]

Tags: borrower, Deutsch Bank, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, lawyers, Lender Liability, RESPA, RICO, TILA, trustee
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Case for Discussion at Foreclosure Workshop on 9/4/08 in Santa Monica King’s County Case: Editor’s Note: For those who are dubious about the legal positions and theories suggested in this blog, this case will be at least somewhat instructive. It is not just a technicality. It is reality. Nobody on the lender’s side can actually […]

Tags: 14th Amendment and Due Process, Deutsch Bank, foreclosure defense, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, jurisdiction, KINGS COUNTY, MERS, Ocwen
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LITIGATORS AND LITIGANTS WHO ARE FIGHTING FORECLOSURE AND USING OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES TO RECOVER REFUNDS, REBATES AND DAMAGES FROM THE COLLECTION OF COMPANIES THAT RAN UPLINE AND DOWNLINE FROM THE LENDER SHOUDL TRACK THESE LAWSUITS AND EVERY FIILNG — THERE IS A LOT OF GOLD IN THOSE PLEADINGS AND A LOT OF WORK YOU WON’T BE […]

Tags: Appraisal, balance sheet, Buffalo, Deutsch Bank, FASB, foreclosure defense, lawsuits, Michigan, rating, Wells Fargo
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