Ingham County may spend $60,000 for foreclosure fraud victims

First it was mortgage documents signed by people who weren’t really bank officials using names that, in most cases, weren’t their own.

Then it was foreclosures initiated by a company called Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., which didn’t actually own the debt on the homes in question.

Over the past three months, the office of Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr., has found more than 1,000 cases of illegal foreclosures or foreclosure proceedings based on documents that appear to be fraudulent.

Hertel has asked the Ingham County Board of Commissioners to do something to help the people affected.

The commission will vote tonight on whether to retain Legal Services of South Central Michigan to provide free representation to victims of possible foreclosure fraud. The cost would be $60,000.

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