Video | Fannie Mae Sends SWAT Team to Forcibly Evict Grandmother from Her Home After Refusing Payments
SWAT Team Eviction Take Back the Land- Rochester engages in an eviction defense of the Lennon-Griffin family home. Rochester, NY sends 25 police cars, including the SWAT team, to execute the eviction. 6 Take Back the Land- Rochester members are arrested, as is an elderly neighbor who dared complain about the police overkill. Lennon has … Read more
Florida Gov Rick Scott OKs last-minute bailout for courts
Scott OKs last-minute bailout for courts Gov. Scott approved a $19,487,027 loan to tide the courts over until the end of May. The loan must repaid by the end of June. Gov. Rick Scott signed off on a loan to state courts to fill a budget shortfall that would have resulted in two-week furloughs. Scott … Read more
NJ Case Dismissed | Foreclosure Notice Found Deficient for Naming Only Loan Servicer, Not Lender
Foreclosure Notice Found Deficient for Naming Only Loan Servicer, Not Lender New Jersey Law Journal Mary Pat Gallagher Homeowners fighting foreclosure have a new weapon: a published trial court ruling that the notice required by law to be sent to mortgagors by certified mail must identify the lender and not just the loan servicing company. … Read more
Press Release | Register O’Brien is Supported in His Efforts to Withdraw Registry Funds from Bank of America
JOHN L. O’BRIEN, JR. Register of Deeds Phone: 978-542-1704 Fax: 978-542-1706 website: www.salemdeeds.com Commonwealth of Massachusetts Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds Shetland Park 45 Congress Street Suite 4100 Salem, Massachusetts 01970 NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Salem, MA April 6, 2011 Contact: Kevin Harvey, 1st Assistant Register 978-542-1724 kevin.harvey@sec.state.ma.us Register O’Brien is supported in … Read more
Sun April 10 @5pm EST | ATTN Whistleblowers Inside Florida Courts, Foreclosure Mills, Servicers, Banks, etc
Firedoglake’s Online Book Salon for The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself More and more insiders & whistleblowers are rushing to come forward with information exposing the extent and scope of the financial crimes against individuals and investors. These crimes are geared to dispossess, foreclose, evict, and deplete investment … Read more
Naked Capitalism | Banks Win Again: Weak Mortgage Settlement Proposal Undermined by Phony Consent Decrees
Banks Win Again: Weak Mortgage Settlement Proposal Undermined by Phony Consent Decrees Wow, the Obama administration has openly negotiated against itself on behalf of the banks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so craven heretofore. As readers may recall, we weren’t terribly impressed with the so-called mortgage settlement talks. It started out as a … Read more
Settlement FAIL | Banks Get Edge in Talks on Foreclosure Penalties as Feds Settle
Banks Get Edge in Talks on Foreclosure Penalties as Feds Settle Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and fellow mortgage servicers are more likely to dodge a threatened $20 billion in penalties for faulty foreclosures after U.S. agencies cut ahead of the states by signing deals without fines. A task force … Read more
BAM | Register of Deeds John O’Brien Received Green Light to Withdraw Millions of Dollars from Bank of America
Deeds head gets OK to yank BofA funds South Essex Register of Deeds John O’Brien said he has received a green light to withdraw what could be millions of dollars from accounts at Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). O’Brien threatened to pull the money to protest the bank’s participation in the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, … Read more
Trashed Out | Wells Fargo Boards Up Windows, Changes Locks, Homeowner Loses Everything
Not a Wonderful Life: The Effects of Aggressive Foreclosure One morning in December 2008, four months later, the kids left for school, and she left to drive her school bus route. When Zabrina came home from work, her windows were boarded up, the locks on the doors were changed; she had no way to get … Read more
