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Lies a new tool in foreclosure Lawyers, in rush to regain properties, can exploit judges’ workload By Todd Ruger Published: Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Foreclosure lawyers want to take back property as fast as possible, and sometimes they do not let the facts slow them down. In case after case, lawyers representing […]
The Judge authored a 58 page opinion ”to share my education with participants in the bankruptcy system who may be similarly unfamiliar with the extent that a third party intermediary drives the Chapter 13 process.” Opinion, p. 30.
where, as here, the debtor contests the relief sought, the flaws in the automated process become apparent. At this juncture, an attorney must cease processing files and act like a lawyer. That means she must become personally engaged, conferring with the client directly and abandoning her reliance on computer screens as an expression of her client’s will. This did not happen in this case until the Court became involved. It should not have taken judicial intervention to bring the Claim Objection to its conclusion.
Editor’s Note: Nationwide (described in the article below) is not the only company that is in the business of trying to “clear up” the title, assignment and, ownership and recording problems caused by the manner in which the loans were securitized. In many cases we are seeing fabricated documents, signatures from unauthorized people, notarization in […]
Many Thanks to Ron Ryan, Esq. representing the Tucson Bankruptcy Bar for the submission below: Editor’s Note: Obama wasn’t kidding when he he said the thing that humbled or frustrated him the most was how slow Washington is to “get on board.” Dick Durbin had the class and guts to say it outright. The banks […]
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced legislation in the Senate Thursday which would allow homeowners in bankruptcy to renegotiate — or cramdown — mortgages with banks. His corresponding amendment to the House-passed bankruptcy reform bill is scheduled to be voted on at 2:30. (Read the whole thing.) The measure is widely expected to fail, as crucial […]
WaMu faulted on home loans Colluded to inflate property values, N.Y. attorney general says By AUBREY COHEN AND BILL VIRGIN P-I REPORTERS New York’s attorney general has accused Washington Mutual Inc. of pressuring a real estate appraisal company to deliver inflated home values in order to justify making loans, a practice that some appraisers have […]
Thank you Alan Baron for submitting the article. Editor’s Note: Maybe too little too late but a good start nonetheless. This issue is very simple. In the law it is called “fraud on the market.” Wall Street targeted specific swaths of geography and made it look like the entire market was going wild in that […]
FAIR GAME Guess What Got Lost in the Loan Pool? By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: February 28, 2009 WE are all learning, to our deep distress, how the perpetual pursuit of profits drove so many of the bad decisions that financial institutions made during the mortgage mania. But while investors tally the losses that were generated […]
Unfortunately, the bill would not only pay institutions handsomely for each modification they do — at $1,000 each, a bounty that could reach $10 billion — but it would also create opportunities for mortgage servicers to profit at the expense of investors who own the loans. Gretchen Morgenson deserves Kudos for her attempts to disclose […]
April 24, 2009 Tracking Loans Through a Firm That Holds Millions By MIKE McINTIRE Judge Walt Logan had seen enough. As a county judge in Florida, he had 28 cases pending in which an entity called MERS wanted to foreclose on homeowners even though it had never lent them any money. MERS, a tiny data-management […]


