Archives by Tag ' RICO '
Jan 30, 2009

Obama is of course correct in his outrage. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers to cover the appearances of catastrophic losses and then paying bonuses for good management is over the top by any standards. But neither he nor the media is correct in assuming that that the bonuses were not in […]

Jan 28, 2009

Mortgage market clouds who owns woman’s house Submitted by Jose Semedey — Thank You By CARRIE TEEGARDIN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, January 25, 2009 Twenty years ago, Zella Mae Green bought a modest brick ranch house in DeKalb County with an American ideal in mind. The single mother of four, who raised her children working […]

Jan 28, 2009

The home you save could be your own In foreclosure crisis, more Americans representing themselves in court By Mike Stuckey Senior news editor msnbc.com updated 4:25 a.m. MT, Wed., Jan. 28, 2009 Luis Molina is not a lawyer and he has never played one on TV. But that didn’t stop him from putting on his […]

Jan 27, 2009

  mers-membership milestoneplus Sample Response Record: Corporate Name: West Coast Servicing, Inc. Address: 17011 Beach Blvd., #300 City,State,Zip: Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Toll Free Number: (866) 574-2001 Direct Number: (714) 596-6333 Fax Number: (714) 596-6333 Primary Contact: Cameron Clayton Website: http://www.wcrsi.com Member Org ID: 1006937 Lines Of Business: Originator, Servicer, Subservicer, Investor, Document Custodian eRegistry […]

Jan 14, 2009

Atlantic Article Submitted by multiple readers, I read this as soon as my issue was delivered. It’s true. And to add insult to injury, the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Where did the money go? $350 billion disappeared down a black hole. The banks and investment banks got the money under the presumption […]

Jan 5, 2009

Credit Card Companies Willing to Deal Over Debt Bank of America says it eased off on more than 700,000 credit card holders in 2008, lowering interest rates and some balances. By ERIC DASH Published: January 2, 2009 Hard times are usually good times for debt collectors, who make their money morning and night with the […]

Jan 4, 2009

Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? That Was Ms. Halterman’s Mortgage on It; ‘Unfit for Human Occupancy,’ City Says By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS AVONDALE, Ariz. — The little blue house rests on a few pieces of wood and concrete block. The exterior walls, ravaged by dry rot, bend to the touch. At some […]

Jan 2, 2009

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. […]

Dec 23, 2008

December 23, 2008 Irregularity Uncovered at IndyMac   By EDMUND L. ANDREWS   WASHINGTON — Two months before IndyMac Bancorp collapsed in July, at a cost of $8.9 billion to taxpayers, a top federal banking regulator allowed the bank to backdate a capital infusion and gloss over its deepening problems, the Treasury Department’s independent investigator […]

Dec 23, 2008

Some time ago we mentioned on these pages that the auditors who certified the financial statements (KPMG, here) would come under intense scutiny simply because they MUST have known, by simple common sense, that the economics of mortgage lending had been turned on its head. The worse the loan quality the more they made leaving […]