Submitted by Beth Findsen, Esq. in Scottsdale, Az Investors-suing-Chase-includes-list-of-mortgage-backed-securities-various-originators-like-New-Century-WAMU-Wells-Fargo-ResMae-Greenpoint-Coun One of the many things I find interesting in this lawsuit is that FINALLY the pretender lenders are at least being referred to as originators and not banks, lenders or any of the other things that had most people believing. Here too investors sue the rating […]

Tags: Accredited Home Lenders, American Home Mortgage Corp., Chase, Chase Home Finance LLC, countrywide, Depositor, Greenpoint, HERS, Inc., J.P. Morgan Acceptance Corporation I, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co, McGraw-Hill Companies, Moody’s Investor Services, mortgage backed securities, N.A, new century, originators, Ownit Mortgage Solutions, Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi, Registration Statement, ResMae, Sponsor, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services, WAMU, Wells Fargo
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, foreclosure mill, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

GET LOAN SPECIFIC RECORDS PROPERTY SEARCH AND SECURITIZATION SUMMARY FTC v Countrywide Home Loans Incand BAC Home Loans ServicingConsent Judgment Order 20100607 Editor’s Comment: This “tip of the iceberg”  is important for a number of reasons. You should be alerted to the fact that this was an industry-wide practice. The fees tacked on illegally during […]

Tags: Appraisal, Bank of America, bo-doc, california foreclosure, countrywide, delinquency, excessive fees, Federal Trade Commission, feeder originators, fees, FTC, interest rates, investors, loans, Merrill Lynch & Co., mortgage backed securities, Notice of Default, Notice of Sale, points, Quicken, underwriting
Posted in Corruption, Eviction, evidence, expert witness, foreclosure mill, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

Editor’s Note: Now the truth as reported here two years ago. There were no losses. They were making money hand over fist. And this article focuses only on a single topic — some of the credit default swaps — those that Goldman had bought in its own name, leaving out all the other swaps bought […]

Tags: ABACUS 2007-AC1, bonds, borowers, check-kiting, David A. Viniar, default, Eric Kolchinsky, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation., financial crisis, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Fitch, fraud, Gary D. Cohn, Goldman Sachs, GRETCHEN MORGENSON, HERS, John A. Paulson, Kolchinsky, lenders, lending, Lloyd C. Blankfein, losses, Louise Story, Moody's, mortgage backed securities, Office of Thrift Supervision, operating agreement, OWNERSHIP of the loan pool, Ponzi, Securities and Exchange Commission, selling forward, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, SEWELL CHAN, sham, shares, special purpose vehicle, Standard & Poor's, swaps, trust, trustee, Washington Mutual
Posted in Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

see Magnetar%20Mortage%20Recovery%20Backstop%20Whitepaper%20Jun09.pdf Magnetar Mortage Recovery Backstop Whitepaper Jun09 Two things jump out at me with this paper from June, 2009. First it is obvious that the “real money” investors are defined as those seeking low risk and willing to take lower yield. The fact that they are called “Real Money Investors” underscores my point about […]

Tags: "true" fair market value, borrower, creditor, DEBTOR, fair market value, HERS, identity of the creditor, infrastructure, Investor, Magnetar, Moral Hazard, mortgage backed securities, mortgage modification, principal reduction, real money, real money investors, REAL PARTY IN INTEREST, recovery, risk, status quo, whitepaper, yield
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, foreclosure mill, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

And THAT is why you are entitled to compel discovery, compel answers to your QWR, DVL and other requests. If the losses were not real, if the pools were marked down solely on the say-so of the financial institutions that created them, if the default rate was really much lower than the declared defaults, if […]

Tags: accounting, Alistair Barr, AMbac, default, HERS, illusory losses, John Spence, MarketWatch, mortgage backed securities, pretender lenders, price-earnings ratio, principal reduction, sham financial transactions, third party payments
Posted in Corruption, Eviction, securities fraud |

The Federal Reserve Board has issued an interim final rule under Regulation Z to implement the recent Truth in Lending Act (TILA) amendment that requires new owners and assignees of mortgage loans to notify consumers of the sale or transfer. While mostly helpful in foreclosure defense,  the rule leaves open the question of ownership of […]

Tags: agents, AGGREGATOR, consumer protection, contact information, creditor, foreclosure defense, legal notices, MERS, mortgage backed securities, mortgage loans, principal residence, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Reg Z, resolve payment issues, RESPA, secured, statutory damages, TILA, violation
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

SEE ALSO BOE PAPER ON ABS DISCLOSURE condocmar10 If the Bank of England wants this information, how can this court deem it irrelevant? NOTE: BOE defines investors as note-holders. information on the remaining life, balance and prepayments on a loan; data on the current valuation and loan-to-value ratios on underlying property and collateral; and interest […]

Tags: ABS Disclosure, arrangement, asymmetry of information, balance, Bank of England, bankruptcy, BEAR STEARNS, cash-flow waterfalls, countrywide, Credit Suisse, current rate, current valuation, David J. Grais, default, delinquent, descriptions, Deutsch Bank, diagrams, discovery, event, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, foreclosure, fraudulent activity, Grais and Ellsworth, Gretchen Morgenstern, interest rate, levels, LITIGATION, loan-to-value ratio, loss on sale, Merrill Lynch, Moral Hazard, mortgage backed bonds, mortgage backed securities, New York Times, noteholders, performing, portfolio, prepayments, profit on sale, qualified written request, remaining life, RMBS, sale price, subportfolio, total recoveries, triggers, value of payments in arrears
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, expert witness, Modification, securities fraud, Servicer |

AVAILABLE ON KINDLE/AMAZON You can use this information by establishing “probable cause” in the mind of the Judge or jury right off the bat — we know they lied to investors, are we now supposed to believe they told the truth to the homeowners? This is the kind of news article buried deep into a […]

Tags: auction rate securities, borrower, credit default swaps, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, Investor, mortgage backed securities, securitization, Wells Fargo
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, securities fraud |

It’s along time since I wrote this piece on March 1, 2007 — before I even started the blog. I believed then as I do now that the safety of our nation, the soundness of our economy and the happiness and freedoms of our children and grandchildren depend entirely upon our actions today. In this […]

Tags: borrowers, credit crisis, investors, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE WORKOUTS, trust, TRUTH
Posted in bubble, Eviction |

  Credit Crisis Over? — Not by a Long Shot   As you can imagine I get emails and comments from hundreds of people seeking help and whose houses are going into sale or foreclosure, most of whom are completely unaware that they have rights superior to the lender, if they can find someone to […]

Tags: Bernanke, congress, credit, credit crisis, good faith estimate, mortgage backed securities, National Association of realtors, TILA, treasury securities
Posted in bubble, Corruption, Eviction, securities fraud |