LYONS: Report on foreclosure’s legal issues is refreshing

Who knew the state Attorney General’s office could be so delightfully snarky?

In what could have been a dry, legalistic account of problems judges are grappling with in foreclosure cases, the AG’s economic crimes division comes off like they are trying out as comedy writers for the Jay Leno Show.

And you have to love it, because the butt of the jokes, oh so appropriately, are major banks and their lawyers who have been filing grossly flawed or flat-out bogus mortgage documents in courts all over Florida and elsewhere.

If you are an outraged follower of what banks have been getting away with, you might already know the nuts and bolts of the material, which the AG presents in a PowerPoint slide show titled “Unfair, Deceptive and Unconscionable Acts in Foreclosure Cases.”

No laughs in that grim topic, you might think.

But actually there are many, especially for anyone who appreciates seeing shoddy lawyering exposed. If you are new to perusing bogus mortgage documents filed in court, you might hardly believe that even lawyers of the kind featured in lawyer jokes would have that much audacity.

The AG shows what I’ve written about before: Bank documents clearly dummied up, falsely dated, and signed with phony signatures, often by people presented as vice presidents of companies who never had any such employee.

Some court filings have crucial portions left empty or filled only with reminder phrases that imply “put bogus claim here,” something no judge was supposed to see. And sometimes, a notary stamp attests to impossible signature dates.

Check out the rest here…

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