Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Meenu Sasser, who handles the county’s foreclosures, said she’s dismissed cases when she found problems with assignments. She wasn’t speaking directly about cases filed by Stern, and said it’s only happened a few times.

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“I haven’t seen any widespread problem,”
Sasser said.

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I guess she hasn’t read any of these reports that talk about mortgage assignments…

Excerpts from the report…

Florida’s purported largest foreclosure law firm filed thousands of documents to take people’s homes that contained deceptive and intentionally ambiguous information, according to a proposed class action lawsuit.

The suit, filed last month in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, says David J. Stern and his Plantation-based legal team violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by generating fraudulent mortgage assignments when pursuing foreclosures.

WHOA!!! Another CLASS ACTION FILED Against DJSP & MERS – Figueroa v. Law Offices Of David J. Stern, P.A. and MERSCORP, Inc.

Tick tock, tick tock, tick toc, tic toc… ~ BOOM!!! ~ Lets see, in the past couple weeks, we discussed… Foreclosure Fraud Exposed!!! Foreclosures Bring Wealth, Rebukes for Florida Lawyer David J. Stern Posted by Foreclosure Fraud on July 18, 2010 Attention ALL Florida Judges: ~ With all that is know known, with all the frauds … Read more

“There really is no proper plaintiff to sue and foreclose and that’s what this charade is designed to cover,” said Fort Lauderdale attorney Kenneth Eric Trent, who is seeking class action status and filed the suit on behalf of Oakland Park resident Ignacio Damian Figueroa. “There is no real holder of the note and the mortgage anymore because they broke it up and sold it to 10, 12, 20 people.”

Tracking the true owner of the debt sometimes can be a challenge. When pressed for proof of debt ownership, Trent said Stern’s office would create an assignment signed by a Stern employee instead of a representative of the lender attempting to foreclose.

“The assignments were meaningless shells designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the judiciary and ease the burden upon the unknown real parties of interest,” the lawsuit states.

Miami attorney Jeffrey Tew, of Tew Cardenas law firm, is representing Stern. He said Stern and his company have done nothing wrong, and that it is accepted practice for a firm employee to be given power to approve assignments.

And here is where the real issue lies…

Just because this is an “accepted practice” does not make it legal or proper.

Just because you get away with something for so long does not make it okay.

West Palm Beach foreclosure defense attorney Thomas Ice found 21 examples last year of assignments from Stern’s office that had been executed with a date before the notary’s commission was issued.

In a deposition, a Stern employee agreed with Ice that “sloppiness” was to blame for the irregularity.

Full Deposition of the Soon to be Infamous Cheryl Samons RE: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, As Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital Inc, Plaintiff, Vs. Belourdes Pierre – 50 2008 CA 028558 XXXX MB

ICE LEGAL does it AGAIN! Thomas Ice is clearing the path once again. First the Erica Johnson-Seck deposition, now Cheryl Samons (which may have been responsible for more Floridians losing their homes  than any other person in the state). Imagine if all the Foreclosure Defense Attorneys here in Florida got together and worked as Co-Counsel … Read more

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Meenu Sasser, who handles the county’s foreclosures, said she’s dismissed cases when she found problems with assignments. She wasn’t speaking directly about cases filed by Stern, and said it’s only happened a few times.

“I haven’t seen any widespread problem,” Sasser said.

Be sure to read the report in its entirety over at the PB Post and get involved in the comments…

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