Banks trying to move past robo-signing
A top bank official put his best foot forward in Fort Wayne a day after eligible Hoosiers learned they could join a national mortgage settlement.
As part of the deal, more than 37,000 Indiana homeowners who were foreclosed on and subject to an error by a mortgage servicer between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, will split $31.4 million in cash payments.
The average disbursement – $840 per household – is payback for charges of “robo-signing” that pushed mortgage applications through without proper review. Indiana and 48 other states this year joined the federal government’s settlement with five major lenders and servicing institutions to settle the claim: Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
Russ Cross, senior vice president and regional servicing director for Wells Fargo, said it’s time to move on. Cross, whose region consists of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, is based in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Like a bad dream, huh? Forget it all happened and move on? Millions of lives destroyed and they want you to know that they are the good guys now?, right? I have yet to see one apology from one single bank to anyone whose life they destroyed. No jail time, either, although I don’t think that will EVER happen. They live in a non-world so ultimately distant from the real world. Corruption, payoffs, back door deals…it’s all so surreal…..usually seen in the movies of Hollywood except that the movie is played out in real time!
Would be interesting to be there when the defense lawyer of the bank explains this as a fair thing. I now can hear the jury made up of YOUR peers that have either had a close relative or friend or themselves foreclosed on using forged signatures laughing at this SETTLEMENT!
Surely you are suing?