It is encouraging that Obama is the police trying to get the housing and foreclosure situation resolved. But he is starting from a premise that is faulty just as Florida and other states are passing legislation from a similar premise, to wit: that the blame for title corruption, litigation and the court that is clogging the system, and the housing market, together with the bogus mortgage bonds that were issued by nonexistent unfunded special purpose vehicles (“trusts”) is somehow the fault of borrowers.
In his weekly Saturday address, Obama made reference to reckless behavior without specifying that the reckless behavior was that of the banks. The pervasive and insidious assumption is that 30 million borrowers woke up one morning and decided to enter into a conspiracy that would destroy the countries economy and financial system. If anything is obvious it is that only the Wall Street banks had the capacity and sophistication as well as the motive and opportunity to ruin the lives of millions of people, corrupt a title system that had been working perfectly for centuries, and control the governmental response using the influence they had acquired through lobbyists and direct financial contributions.
The reason that is so important is not just that the bankers probably belong in jail just like they ended up going to prison in the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s; the real reason it is important to start with the premise that the banks on Wall Street created a fraudulent Ponzi scheme that has not yet been addressed. Neither the economy nor the corrupted title system in our country can enjoy any serious correction without at least considering the idea that the entire bogus plan of false securitization was premeditated and clearly intentional.
This is not to say that there was no fraud on the part of any of the borrowers. But it is quite obvious from news reports that any prosecutions for mortgage fraud have been directed at borrowers who merely used the same techniques, procedures, tactics and fabricated documents that the banks used when they caused the loans to be originated and caused the worthless paper from the “loan closing” to be assigned, sold, insured and hedged as though the loans were the property of the Wall Street banks who in fact had merely used the deposits of unsuspecting investors. Even a appraisal fraud is being prosecuted against small individual investors who merely followed the directions of the thinly capitalized” originator” and mortgage broker. The reason those loans went through was not because of the fraudulent intent of the actors who were prosecuted but because of the fraudulent intent of the Wall Street banks and their affiliates whose business plan called for the origination of loans in unsustainable amounts and the diversion of the documents that were supposed to protect the investors whose money was used for the origination or acquisition of loans.
If the securitization of debt had been real, there would’ve been no need for MERS, or any private system that was used in reality to track transactions that were a complete sham. The Wall Street banks made sure that they used the money of third parties and created “paper closings” in favor of entities, “originators”, and even banks who pretended to underwrite the loans but who never had any risk of loss and in fact in most cases never showed any bookkeeping or accounting entries reflecting the creation of a loan receivable. The amount of “money” in the shadow banking system of insurance, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and other exotic instruments is now said to exceed one quadrillion dollars. It is universally accepted, and I agree, that this amount is geometrically larger than any real money in the system, with estimates of real value varying from $25 trillion-$70 trillion.
My point here is simply that the Wall Street banks entered into a relationship with investors wherein the investors were principles of the Wall Street banks were agents. Regardless of how many layers the Wall Street banks used in terms of the use of subsidiaries and affiliates, their actions were subject to the expectations of the investors and the written promises to those investors, all of which were breached nearly all of the time by the Wall Street banks. Hence their trading in the defect of loans and unenforceable paper created at the “paper closings” produced a volume of “trading profits” which were in reality the proceeds of transactions that should have been used to reimburse the investors.
Once you accept the notion that the above scenario is true, the legal question of whether or not a monthly payment is due or in fact whether any payment is due from the borrower becomes the front and Center question in all action seeking to collect or foreclose on consumer debt including but not limited to alleged “mortgages”.
PRACTICE note: this is why you want to issue a subpoena or other discovery device that forces the party seeking foreclosure or collection to produce a live witness and documents that shows that there is an actual risk of loss by virtue of an actual transaction on a specific date for a specific amount of money which was paid by the party seeking foreclosure to another party who actually on the loan by virtue of another actual transaction on another specific date for a specific amount of money that was paid by check, wire transfer, ACH, or check 21. All the information that I have indicates that none of those transactions actually occurred, no money ever exchanged hands, and that the assignments and endorsements reflect transactions that were a sham — including but not limited to the so-called “origination” or assignment or any other form of acquisition of the loan. This is important not only on the issue of standing and subject matter jurisdiction in which there is no injured party, but on the issue of identifying a party who could conceivably submit a credit bid at the time of the auction of the foreclosed property. In judicial states the final judgment of foreclosure identifies the amount of the judgment awarded without there having been any actual trial or hearing in which evidence is heard on the actual payment, proof of loss, and the dates and amounts in which money exchanged hands. this entitles the foreclosing party to submit a credit bid when in fact they never had paid any money toward the origination or acquisition of the loan. Thus it is important to bring the issue up very early by way of subpoena to show that the party seeking foreclosure lacks standing, and has filed an action for which there is no substantive jurisdiction, nor any remedy without a financial injury.
Weekly Address: Growing the Housing Market and Supporting our Homeowners
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/11/weekly-address-growing-housing-market-and-supporting-our-homeowners
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