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Texas Attorney who gets it, needed in the Canyon Lake area, north of San Antonio, south of Austin.
I’ve done a title search and MERS, Flagstar Bank, True Star Morgage, Nation Star Morgage are all over my note and title search.
Please contact me.
Florida-i need an attorney that gets in the panhandle of Florida…anyone…most i have talked to just thik you sing the note you woe the money, the judge i am against said the same thing and defaulted me.
WE NEED TO FILE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THE JUDGES IN CALIFORNIA.
ONE BY ONE INCH BY INCH.
To my surprise, I received a response from the California Dept. of Justice today. They suggested contacting the office of the Comptroller of the Currency (http://www.occ.treas.gov) If I’m reiterating info already posted, pleas forgive me. TOO MUCH STUFF! Anyway, my Condo goes on the chopping block tomorrow. Don’t know if any further recourse from here or not. Hear about the Insurer suing BofA for like 16 BILLION? YESSSSS!
Echo here that we need a sharp attorney in Dallas area!!
Neil, please post that our office will assist the Dallas area with pleadings, audit and support services.
Currently we are supporting two homeowners via litigation in the Dallas area from our office in Houston.
It’s tough. Although we can file the pleadings electronically we need physical representation in the area.
Hi Michael,
I’m also from Sacramento, Ca. I don’t know any lawyer who has a foreclosure experience. If you can get one, pls. include me in your list as an additional client seeking for a lawyer who can help us with this mortgage problem we are facing right now.
Thanks and i will appreciates your consideration.
Jim
I AM SORRY, I FEEL LIKE I AM FLOODING THE PLACE WITH INFO.
I APOLOGIZE.
CASE IN POINT: FORECLOSURE MILLS, JUDICIAL FRAUD, CONSUMER EXPLOITATION, GOVERNMENT SHAMS (an abstract)
Unscrupulous foreclosure mill activities are more criminally exploitive than what becomes reported –not only in Florida. Appalling collection abuses have resulted in mill lawyers (or their affiliates) obtaining ownership of fraudulently foreclosed properties via purported bids at “simulated” auctions. Certain fraudulently auctioned properties become “flipped” illegally to Freddie Mac. Some mill lawyers file into court records fee-making pleadings (summary judgments, etc) when Freddie Mac is not party to cases, and they bill $$$$ fees pretending to represent Freddie Mac. As manifest throughout my http://www.lawgrace.org website, mills have cooperation and applause of federal and state courts.
Through falsified Bankruptcy Court pleadings, some foreclosure mill lawyers wrongfully, illegally impede homeowners’ restructuring debts, and discovery of the actual owners of mortgage notes. Such lawyers file falsified bankruptcy “Lift Stay” motions in names of either defunct lenders or lenders with no ownership of property notes. To the contrary, bankruptcy “lift stays” should not be granted where there’s no “standing” since “ranking” and “secured debt” factors come into play. False bankruptcy pleadings not only help illegal property repossessions, any other creditors whom debtors owe, becomes deprived wrongfully of entitled shares of proceeds from those auction frauds; and ILLEGITIMATE “deficiency judgments” ; and third party debt-buyers seeking money after unfairly low bids resulted in large debt balances are also problems.
Plus, foreclosure mills work in concert with Wells Fargo. Among other things, Wells Fargo has tax advantage from fraudulent foreclosure proceedings after placing distressed homeowners’ names / social security numbers on false IRS (acquisition) form 1099-A’s, even when no lawful “acquisition” of properties occurred; such homeowners wrongfully become forced to explain these turn of events to the IRS after surprise receipts of tax bills.
People who think that people who can no longer afford their mortgage should pack up and move out, ignore that it is unjust to render people homeless by use of intentional, dishonest, illegal foreclosure proceedings. Foreclosure mill illegalities like Attorney David J. Stern’s actually accounts for “illegal foreclosures” and “Tent Cities” which could be Anyplace, USA. Consider: Former homeowners Lawrence and Linda Elin, gave up their home after becoming victims of Bernie Madoff. (Former Wells Fargo executive Cheronda Guyton held parties after the Elins moved out; and astonishingly, “Collin Equities” permitted Guyton personal, free access to that home. A foreclosure auction had not occurred which made “Collin” proprietor of property that supposedly ‘went back’ to Wells Fargo (how did Collin get it?) The point being, it is possible that the Elins unwittingly aided a foreclosure fraud which displaced them –people unknowingly do it all the time! These situations are salient reasons why foreclosure fraud (on farmers, businesses, as well as residences) MUST be investigated;” it can cripple peoples’ abilities to move forward with their lives for a very long time –and the cloaked perpetrators are often millionaires; those perpetrators are as bad as, or worse than Bernie Madoff.
Because it is imperative to expose the variations of noxious foreclosure shams; and I have been offering / pleading that My True Story (with Prima Facie proof!) be used in Case Study about deceptive foreclosures and judicial biases. I have not relished all my personal costs in almost 5 years of trying to tell the story (my own, as well as others) of how the judicial system is being utilized by the banking industry (knowingly and unknowingly, because sometimes the lenders don’t know the foreclosure mills are handing them dirty titles) to devastate people whose circumstances causes them difficulty with repaying debts.
**SEE this entire article with resource links @
http://www.lawgrace.org/2010/08/14/foreclosure-mills-judicial-fraud-consumer-exploitation-government-shams/
Foreclosure Fraud – Fighting Foreclosure Fraud by Sharing the Knowledge
KABOOM!!! REFERRAL OF CHASE HOME MORTGAGE AND MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. TO FEDERAL PROSECUTOR
Posted by Foreclosure Fraud on September 30, 2010 · 12 Comments
We did it everyone!!!
We really did it!!!
It is all collapsing right in front of our eyes…
Secretary Brunner Outlines Two Lines of Attack in Fighting High Ohio Foreclosure Rates
9/30/2010
For Immediate Release
SECRETARY BRUNNER OUTLINES TWO LINES OF ATTACK IN FIGHTING HIGH OHIO FORECLOSURE RATES
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, Ohio’s chief elections officer and the state officer responsible for licensing notary publics, today issued a directive to boards of elections that foreclosures cannot be used without further investigation to disqualify voters and revealed that she has referred specific instances of notary abuse occurring at Chase Home Mortgage in Columbus and by the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) to a federal prosecutor for investigation.
DIRECTIVE ON VOTERS FACING FORECLOSURES: Secretary Brunner, in Directive 2010-66, instructed Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections that they may not cancel an Ohioan’s voter registration based solely on the fact that the person is involved in the foreclosure process. The filing of a foreclosure action does not affect a voter’s right to vote until there is a final judgment entry, including the passage of at least 30 days from the date of the entry because of the right of appeal, and verification that the person no longer resides at the property. Ohio continues to experience high residential foreclosure rates.
Those who lose their homes because of foreclosure may wait until Election Day to update their address. Boards are instructed in the directive how to help voters displaced because of foreclosure, based on whether they move (1) within the same precinct, (2) within the same county but to a different precinct, or (3) to a different county in Ohio. Voters facing foreclosure may use their current location of residence as their residence for the purposes of voting.
REFERRAL OF CHASE HOME MORTGAGE AND MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. TO FEDERAL PROSECUTOR: Secretary Brunner, in two letters dated Aug. 11, 2010 and Sept. 1, 2010, referred matters of alleged notary abuse in thousands of home mortgage foreclosures by Chase Home Mortgage and the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. to U.S. District Attorney Steven Dettelbach in Cleveland. Citing two depositions, (one & two) of Chase employee Beth Cottrell, taken in Columbus in May of 2010, and a deposition of MERS Secretary and Treasurer, William Hultman taken in New Jersey in April of 2010. These depositions contain sworn testimony that at Chase Home Mortgage, 18,000 documents per month are executed and notarized per month by eight people, with admissions that:
1. it is the notary and not the document signer who gives an oath who fills in numbers in the affidavits used in court ordered foreclosures,
2. no oath is administered for the signing of each document,
3. notarized documents are not verified by the person signing and giving oath that they have personal knowledge of the contents of the documents, but rather, signers are relying on verification by others,
4. documents are signed in bulk and notarized in bulk separately,
5. notaries know this at the time they notarize documents in this process.
The MERS deposition of William Hultman demonstrates that after corporate status changes occurred for MERS, new designations of authority were not executed, leaving one or more individuals for the former MERS corporation continuing to delegate authority on behalf of the new corporation without authorization by the new corporation.
According to its website: “MERS was created by the mortgage banking industry to streamline the mortgage process by using electronic commerce to eliminate paper…MERS acts as nominee in the county land records for the lender and servicer. Any loan registered on the MERS® System is inoculated against future assignments because MERS remains the nominal mortgagee no matter how many times servicing is traded. MERS as original mortgagee (MOM) is approved by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, FHA and VA, California and Utah Housing Finance Agencies, as well as all of the major Wall Street rating agencies.”
MERS was created by the mortgage lending industry to:
1. eliminate frequent re-recording of liens,
2. avoid paying county recorder fees and other local taxes as mortgage loans are assigned as backing or securitization for derivatives trading by banks and other financial institutions,
3. monitor and facilitate the transfer of original mortgage notes in the trading of mortgage-backed securities,
4. foreclose on mortgage notes for unnamed note holders, even though it is not the real financial party in interest and does not hold the original note for the mortgage.
Currently, over half of all new residential mortgage loans in the U.S. are registered with MERS and recorded in county recording offices in MERS’ name, reducing transparency, leaving consumers unable to determine who actually holds the note on their homes.
Secretary Brunner made the following statement on the situation:
“Mortgage foreclosure documents must be notarized according to the law. Requiring this is not an afterthought or an exercise of form over substance—the law must be followed when taking away someone’s home, regardless of the circumstances.
For too long thousands of homes have been taken from consumers without proof that the foreclosing party actually has that right. Our courts must be cautious and require absolute adherence to the law. As the officer in Ohio who licenses notaries, I cannot stand idly by and watch financial institutions concoct a chain of title they never had by abusing the notary process.
It’s not fair to consumers or to the employees who by virtue of their jobs, are signing these documents. I urge the U.S. Department of Justice to take up this investigation with vigor and purpose to protect consumers and hold financial institutions to the standards of scrutiny and exactitude required by law, even if it means prosecuting some of our largest corporations. These apparent violations of state law point to schemes that merit federal investigation of large institution lending practices and use of the U.S. Postal Service.”
Last week, GMAC Mortgage announced it had suspended evictions and post-foreclosure closings in 23 states over concerns about employees preparing foreclosures with affidavits submitted to judges containing information they did not personally verify. Yesterday it was announced that JPMorgan Chase and Co hired external counsel to review its affidavit process based on the depositions of Beth Cottrell and is delaying approximately 56,000 current foreclosure proceedings.
SOURCE: Ohio Secretary of State
Dear Mr. Garfield,
I was on the air WCTN 950 AM, today and it went fantastic, people are so mad about this. Next week I will be on the air next week again with a couple of lawyers.
I would love for everyone else to start doing the same, we need to get the message out. In English, Spanish, etc.
Write opinion letters to your news papers, participate on the comment areas of the news paper web pages.
Write to your county officials, state officials, Attorney Generals, the governors, the state supreme courts, every one need s to take notice
This is an elections year, let us push these politicians and judges seeking for reelection and to be elected to pick up on the issue
From the Washington Post
Ohio official calls for DOJ probe of Chase mortgages
An Ohio state official called on the Justice Department to open an investigation into J.P. Morgan Chase’s residential mortgage unit.
“Mortgage foreclosure documents must be notarized according to the law,” Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said in a statement on Thursday. “Requiring this is not an afterthought or an exercise of form over substance — the law must be followed when taking away someone’s home, regardless of the circumstances.”
Brunner, who is also the state’s chief elections officer, brought up an interesting point related to the upcoming elections. She said she issued a directive instructing Ohio’s 88- county board of election that it may not cancel a voter registration soley because someone is in foreclosure. Because of the high rate of foreclosure in some districts, it’s possible this may swing some local elections.
From The Washington POST
OneWest Bank employee: ‘Not more than 30 seconds’ to sign each foreclosure document
The recent announcements by J.P. Morgan Chase and Ally Financial that they were freezing some foreclosures because of paperwork irregularities raises a key question: How many more mortgage companies employed “robo-signers?”
In a sworn deposition in July, Erica Johnson-Seck, an Austin, Tex.,-based vice president for bankruptcy and foreclosure for OneWest Bank, said she and her team of seven others sign 6,000 documents a week or about 24,000 a month without reading all of them.
Johnson-Seck estimated that she spends 30 seconds to sign every document.
She explained that while she does not check everything, she does check some information, “which is why I said 30 seconds instead of two seconds.”
In the past, the company had a quality control process that required signatories to check 100 percent of the debts and any figures for loans and bankruptcy, Johnson-Seck said. But the error rate was low, so now they only check about 10 percent of the documents.
She said OneWest Bank’s “outsourcing vendor,” Lender Processing Services, “checks the documents completely.”
A subsidiary of Lender Processing Services is the subject of a criminal investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in the middle district of Florida. LPS has acknowledged problems with its foreclosure paperwork, saying there was an error in how the company handled notarization.
Johnson-Seck also said in the deposition that she had signing authority for Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York and U.S. Bank, among others.
A spokesman for the company did not immediately have a comment.
This is the time to push as hard as possible, the enemy is woozy but they are attacking by spreading more lies.
push your news papers, lawyers, and government officials
OneWest Bank employee: ‘Not more than 30 seconds’ to sign each foreclosure document
The recent announcements by J.P. Morgan Chase and Ally Financial that they were freezing some foreclosures because of paperwork irregularities raises a key question: How many more mortgage companies employed “robo-signers?”
In a sworn deposition in July, Erica Johnson-Seck, an Austin, Tex.,-based vice president for bankruptcy and foreclosure for OneWest Bank, said she and her team of seven others sign 6,000 documents a week or about 24,000 a month without reading all of them.
Johnson-Seck estimated that she spends 30 seconds to sign every document.
She explained that while she does not check everything, she does check some information, “which is why I said 30 seconds instead of two seconds.”
In the past, the company had a quality control process that required signatories to check 100 percent of the debts and any figures for loans and bankruptcy, Johnson-Seck said. But the error rate was low, so now they only check about 10 percent of the documents.
She said OneWest Bank’s “outsourcing vendor,” Lender Processing Services, “checks the documents completely.”
A subsidiary of Lender Processing Services is the subject of a criminal investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in the middle district of Florida. LPS has acknowledged problems with its foreclosure paperwork, saying there was an error in how the company handled notarization.
Johnson-Seck also said in the deposition that she had signing authority for Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York and U.S. Bank, among others.
A spokesman for the company did not immediately have a comment.
I need a Lawyer in the Bakersfield, CA. area, who has Foreclosure experience, I have several friends in the area who need help!
Are there any lawyers we can contact in the Jacksonville Florida area to assist us in the fight against fraud and foreclosure of our home?
Please advise. Thanks, God Bless You for exposing the lies, deceit, etc., of the powerful and wealthy!
God is finally going to give us justice!!!