Naked Capitalism | Hatchet Job by Florida Inspector General to Justify Firing of Two Lawyers for Foreclosure Fraud Investigations

Hatchet Job by Florida Inspector General to Justify Firing of Two Lawyers for Foreclosure Fraud Investigations The usual stereotype of corruption on the US state level is that, depending on the day, Louisiana or Mississippi tops the list. But the cesspool created by the widening foreclosure crisis in Florida puts anything in kudzu-land to shame. … Read more

Atlanta’s Bank of America Plaza, One of the 10 Tallest Structures in the U.S. Faces Foreclosure

Bank of America building facing foreclosure Atlanta’s Bank of America Plaza is one of the 10 tallest structures in the U.S. And thanks to troubles at its namesake Bank of America Corp. and other tenants, the skyscraper could be one of the tallest foreclosure tales of the financial crisis. News came out recently that the … Read more

The OCC Independent Review | Fraudclosure Review Application Tips & Traps

OCC Foreclosure Fraud Review Tips First check your eligibility. From the OCC Independent Review site, http://www.independentforeclosurereview.com/ Si usted habla español, tenemos representantes que pueden asistirle en su idioma. Homeowners whose primary residence was part of a foreclosure action between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010, and whose home loan was serviced by a participating … Read more

Hillsborough County FL | Foreclosed Homes a Mess for County

Foreclosed homes a mess for county TAMPA –It’s a cool morning in suburban Valrico when a small team of Hillsborough County code officers descends on a house with a broken fence and weeds as high as a man’s head. Bill Langford, head of the county’s special code enforcement team, breaks out a portable drill, starts … Read more

Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin Urges Penalties on Mortgage Servicers

Raskin Urges Penalties on Mortgage Servicers WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin on Saturday said the Fed must impose monetary penalties on banks who entered into an April agreement with regulators over how to fix problems in their mortgage servicing businesses. “The Federal Reserve and other federal regulators must impose penalties for … Read more

Barry Ritholtz | Does Lender Processing Services (LPS) Deserve the Corporate Death Penalty?

“The end game for this is fairly obvious: Find the fuckers who authorized this, prosecute and convict them, and throw their sorry asses in jail.” ~ Does Lender Processing Services Deserve the Corporate Death Penalty? Today, we have what appears to be a parallel fraud: The processing of foreclosure documents by legal services giant Lender … Read more

Police State | NYPD Silencing Protesters from informing the general public that NDAA passed (VIDEO)

Protester went to Grand Central Terminal NYC to inform the Public that NDAA passed but was met with arrests. YouTube ~ 4closureFraud.org Tweet

David Dayen | IG Report Whitewashes Firing of Foreclosure Fraud Investigators in Florida

“Why were so many attorneys defending targets of investigations talking to the head of the economic crimes division? Why was he listening to their concerns over his own investigators in his office? Why was Lawson faulting Clarkson and Edwards for a failure to do “independent investigations to confirm third party complaints” when he was accepting … Read more

WTF? PerfectChain℠ – Nationwide Title Clearing (NTC) Helps Homeowners and Borrowers by Identifying Cloud on Title of Properties

“We help [homeowners] by ensuring the chain of title is unclouded,” Hillman went onto say. “Our PerfectChain℠ service straightens out the missing links in the chain that can cause problems when homeowners try to do anything related to ownership of a property, such as sell, buy, etc. Assignments help homeowners keep the paperwork straight – … Read more

NY Times | From East and West, Foreclosure Horror Stories

From East and West, Foreclosure Horror Stories THE authorities have fallen silent lately about a possible settlement over foreclosure abuses at big mortgage servicing companies. The talks began in earnest last March, and people keep whispering that a deal is nigh. But last week, a spokesman for Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban … Read more

Master of Horror, Poe, Revisited | The Brazen

The Brazen by pathelfrick Thrust upon a middle class bleary, they were plundered, while weak and weary, Over many a tainted and spurious document came a forger’s reward. While they plotted, data mapping, predictably there came a trapping, And then someone stoutly rapping, rapping at my front door. “Tis the Sheriff,” he muttered, “taping an … Read more

Dissecting The Pam Bondi / Jeff Atwater Inspector General Report RE June Clarkson, Theresa Edwards and Lisa Epstein

Dissecting The Pam Bondi / Jeff Atwater Inspector General Report RE June Clarkson, Theresa Edwards and Lisa Epstein This week we will be dissection the lies, misrepresentations and omitted irrefutable facts that were made/not made in the “Independent” Inspector General report RE the firings of June Clarkson and Theresa Edwards and the smear job on … Read more