Kangaroo Court

As Banks Continue to Foreclose with False Documents, Men Accused Of Taking Over Vacant Houses To Stand Trial

Jurors are scheduled to hear opening statements Monday in an unusual trial in Cook County criminal court. The defendant is charged with theft of more than a million dollars — in the form of houses, many in Chicago’s Morgan Park and Beverly neighborhoods.

Even more unusual: The defendant doesn’t dispute he took the homes, but he denies it was a crime.

His project was part protest, part Robin Hood, and part hustle. Its roots go back more than a decade.

In 2005, Chase Home Finance filed foreclosure papers on the condo where Torrez Moore lived. He fought eviction for years, acting as his own attorney. He had read up on the law and developed some do-it-yourself legal theories.

By September 2012, he was gone from the condo, but he had also developed a new legal theory, one he thought could get him a free place to live, and other benefits.

To test that theory, he picked a house at 10929 S. Esmond St. It was foreclosed, bank-owned, and vacant.

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