Where Do Those Trial Payments Go? Hamp Data Shows 1.2 Million Trials Started

Ever wonder where those trial payments go? Do they go to your loan balance? To your escrow?  Do they go to your interest due? Do they go to fees owed? Or do they go into a black hole? I personally just don’t know… Check out the less than exciting Hamp Report below… ~ 4closureFraud.org HAMP … Read more

Daily Business Review – Court Rebuffs Two Lenders that Foreclosed Same Loan

June 21, 2010 By: Paola Iuspa-Abbott By the time Glazy and Jose Ruscalleda realized that two different  lenders were foreclosing on their condo mortgage, they were almost out of time. While their lawyer fought a foreclosure action by American Home Mortgage Servicing, the couple was unaware that HSBC Bank USA was about to ask a … Read more

It’s All About the Principal: Preserving Consumers’ Right of Rescission Under the Truth in Lending Act

Abstract: This Article explores a significant market-based threat to the Truth in Lending Act’s right of rescission, a remedy that attempts to deter lender overreaching and fraud during one of the most complex financial transactions of a borrower’s lifetime. The depressed housing market has substantially impaired many borrowers’ ability to fulfill their responsibilities in rescission’s … Read more

Freddie Mac / Bank of America / Taylor Bean Whitaker – IMPORTANT INFO & STATEMENT REGARDING ASSIGNMENTS… TRANSFERS… NOTE OWNERSHIP!!!

“Indeed, it appears as though many loans and other mortgage-related assets have been double and even triple-pledged to various constituencies“ In my 1999 21st Century Loan Sharks Report, I coined and defined the term “Predatory Mortgage Securitization” (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_mortgage_securitization)  in my report from MY PERSONAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS I DEFINED SOME THE FOLLOWING PRACTICES THAT DEFINED … Read more

Bryan Bly, is it a LIE? Robo-Signer for Nationwide Title

By Susan Taylor Martin, Times Senior Correspondent In Print: Sunday, June 20, 2010 To thousands of homeowners whose loans have been shuttled from one company to another, the name “Bryan Bly” is very familiar. Over the past few years, Bly has signed countless mortgage assignments as either a notary public or “vice president” of various … Read more

Foreclosure Case Killer – A Compendium of Capacity Cases by Matthew Weidner

Wow… Matt Weidner just put up his Compendium of Capacity Cases document for all to see. The efforts put into this document are amazing. Take the time to read and understand these issues and us it in your arsenal. Thank you FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK Matt! Excerpts from his blog… The systematic failure … Read more

And it has Begun – Former Taylor Bean Chief Lee Farkas Charged With 16 Counts of Fraud

June 16 (Bloomberg) — Lee Farkas, the former chairman of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., was accused by the U.S. of helping run a more than $1.9 billion fraud scheme that unsuccessfully attempted to steal money from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. An indictment unsealed today in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, alleges … Read more

More Bloodshed – Owners of Murder-Suicide Home Faced Foreclosure, 3-Year-Old Son, Shot at Least Three Times

ANAHEIM – A couple found dead in an apparent murder-suicide that also left their 3-year-old son critically wounded were awash in credit-card debt and about to lose their home to foreclosure, records show. Wayne and Herminia Zickefoose were found in their backyard with gunshot wounds to their heads, police said. Their 3-year-old son, shot at … Read more

Foreclosure Fraud – The Importance of “Truthfulness” in “This Environment” to the Courts RE: Affidavits

Check out this “advice” from Lance Olsen a USFN (United States Foreclosure Network) member… Affidavit Review: Read Twice/Sign Once The phrase “in this environment” has become a fixture in describing the current state of mortgage servicing and the courts. For the attorney representing creditors, “this environment” means one of hyper-scrutiny by judges, trustees, and attorneys, coupled … Read more

Ding Ding Ding – Freddie Mac vs Bank of America – $10 Million Dollar Purse

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!!! National Mortgage News Freddie in Uproar Over B of A Probe Tied to TBW Freddie Mac is trying to prevent Bank of America from investigating its business relationship with the failed Taylor Bean & Whitaker, noting that the cost of the probe could cost the GSE $10 million or more. … Read more

Uh-oh – Fannie, Freddie Ordered To Delist Stock From U.S. Exchanges

That’s gotta sting… I wonder how that is going to affect the portfolio of Palm Beach County, and all other counties and states for that matter??? WSJ By NATHAN BECKER, JESSICA HOLZER And JACOB BUNGE The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ordered the two government-sponsored mortgage purchasers to delist their shares from the … Read more

Is Justice Dead?

Commentary George W. Mantor RISMEDIA, June 15, 2010—“Judge W. H. Mantor Commits Act of Shooting Self in Fit of Insanity at His Home.” So read the headline from an article in the February 7, 1919 issue of the Brainerd Dispatch Newspaper reporting the circumstances of my grandfather’s merge with the infinite. It went on to … Read more

AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC, v. JUDITH MENDES DA COSTA; Motion to Dismiss Granted – Judge’s Order SLAMS MERS

This has to be one of the best ruling out of Florida involving MERS. AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC, v. JUDITH MENDES DA COSTA CASE NO.: 09-142-CA Some Excerpts… Emphasis added by me “While U.S. Bank alleged in its unverified complaint that it was the holder of the note and mortgage, the copy of the mortgage … Read more

2nd Deposition of Jeffrey Stephan – GMAC’s Assignment / Affidavit Slave

Another great contribution for Matt Weidner’s Blog If I was facing GMAC I would compare statements from this deposition (takes a minute to load) of Jeffrey Stephan to the one below. ~ 4closureFraud.org 2nd Deposition of Jeffrey Stephan – GMAC’s Assignment / Affidavit Slave Tweet

A Call to Arms – War Room, Bar Fight, Strategic Defense Unit

It’s that time again folks. We are planning our next “Rally” in Florida. Last time, when we stormed the Capitol we organized the maneuver in four days. This time, we have been making our tactical advances with some lead time enabling strategic engineering of the mission and aiming for more exposure and a higher profile. … Read more

KABOOM!!! David J. Stern DJSP Enterprises, Inc Under Investor Investigations for Violations of Federal Securities Laws

Sorry for the delayed report on this… I bet this investor group would LOVE to hear about the Foreclosure Frauds perpetrated by this organization… Kick Em While They’re Down Just like they do to the homeowners that they are fraudulently foreclosing on… PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 01, 2010 – An investigation on behalf of … Read more

I Believe in Palm Beach County Foreclosure Judge Meenu Sasser

Recently I wrote an “Open Letter to Judge Sasser.” Unfortunately, the intent of that letter has been misconstrued.  I did not intend to imply that I was against Judge Sasser.  I do not agree with all her decisions, but I believe Judge Sasser is developing into a good judge, possibly a great judge.  Further, I … Read more

Palm Beach County’s Financial Report – 77% of Portfolio Invested in GSE’s / MBS’ / CMO’s?

If there are any accountants out there, please tell me I am interpreting this incorrectly… So I was looking into how bad this Foreclosure Crisis is and decided to take a look at one of the local County’s financial records and now I wished I didn’t… According to the Palm Beach County’s 2009 Comprehensive Annual … Read more

MERS® InvestorID System is Now LIVE – Get to Know Your Investor

This is a HUGE update to the MERS® Servicer Identification System. It now identifies the INVESTOR on your loan. How much do you want to bet that in almost all foreclosure cases the Plaintiff is not the Investor… Just a random sampling of cases will reveal that the Plaintiff is not the Investor. We are … Read more

Subprime Standardization: How Rating Agencies Allow Predatory Lending to Flourish in the Secondary Mortgage Market

Abstract: Predatory lending, the origination of loans with abusive terms to homeowners, is rampant in the subprime mortgage market. In the last few years, many states responded to this problem by enacting consumer protection laws. Large segments of the lending industry have opposed these laws. In large part because of these complaints, momentum is building … Read more

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