Michigan AG asked not to sign on to foreclosure fraud deal with feds

In his letter, delivered to Schuette’s office Tuesday morning, Hertel wrote the attorney general:

I am writing to ask that you stand firm, and refuse to add Michigan to any settlement that would give criminal immunity to the defendants. Our ongoing investigations have demonstrated that the major banks in this settlement, and their hired document mills, were engaged in the practice of robo-signing. Hundreds of residents here in Ingham County, and thousands of residents across the state, were illegally foreclosed upon because of this practice.

These illegalities have stolen due process from our own citizens, and robbed them of precious time that could have been used to recover and resume their mortgages, or obtain a modification. A family who is facing a foreclosure is already vulnerable; this practice insured that they could not possibly reclaim their home.

The full letter is embedded below.

“Those crimes were committed in our offices and essentially destroyed our land property records,” Hertel says of the alleged frauds. “You shouldn’t be able to buy your way out of criminal investigations.”

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AN OPEN LETTER TO BILL SCHUETTE