Foreclosure crisis: Fed-up judges crack down disorder in the courts
By Christine Stapleton and Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Angry and exasperated by faulty foreclosure documents, judges throughout Florida are hitting back by increasingly dismissing cases and boldly accusing lawyers of “fraud upon the court.”
A Palm Beach Post review of cases in state and appellate courts found judges are routinely dismissing cases for questionable paperwork. Although in most cases the bank is allowed to refile the case with the appropriate documents, in a growing number of cases judges are awarding homeowners their homes free and clear after finding fraud upon the court.
Still, critics say judges are not doing enough.
“The judges are the gatekeepers to jurisprudence, to the Florida Constitution, to access to the courts and to due process,” said attorney Chip Parker, a Jacksonville foreclosure defense attorney who was recently investigated by the Florida Bar for his critical comments about so-called “rocket dockets” during an interview with CNN. “It’s discouraging when it appears as if there is an exception being made for foreclosure cases.”
In February, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Maxine Cohen Lando took one of the largest foreclosure law firms in the state to task in a public hearing meant to send a message. She called Marc A. Ben-Ezra, founding partner of Ben-Ezra & Katz P.A., before her to explain discrepancies in a case handled by an attorney in his Fort Lauderdale-based firm.
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Nothing makes me madder than the constant barrage of FRAUCLOSURES FOR SALE COMMERCIALS ON T.V. These networks, corporations such as GE and real estates such as MSNBC are HAND IN HAND with the CRIMINALS WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAMS OF MILLIONS. CHASE STOLE MY SISTER’S HO– USE AND WELLS FARGO STOLE MY BROTHER-IN-LAWS TOWNHO– USE without either of them EVER STEPPING FOOT IN A COURTROOM. My brother in law was not even behind on his mortgage, just a couple of months behind on his homeowners association fees and WELLS FARGO HAD HIM EVICTED IN A JUDICIAL STATE WITHOUT HIS DAY IN COURT. HIS TOWNHO– USE HAS BEEN ON THE MLS FOR 2 YEARS NOW. THIS VAST ONGOING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE OF MULTINATIONAL BANKSTERS, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND FANNIE/FREDDIE AND THEIR SERVICERS AND CRIMINAL ATTORNEYS TRULY ARE THE SPAWNS OF SATAN. THEY HAVE STOLEN THE HOMES OF MILLION OF PEOPLE THEY TRULY DO NOT OWN. GIVE THE STOLEN HOMES BACK TO THE PEOPLE. THEY WERE ILLEGALLY SCAMMED OUT OF THEIR HOMES GODDAMN IT. THAT IS 100% GOVERNMENT SPONSORED FASCISM AND TYRANNY.
We just need that all Judges act this way or at least most of then this Judge should not be the exception but the rule
judges, stand up!
thank God for judges like Lando and Schack.!
and how utterly vile is it that attorney Chip Parker is under investigation for speaking THE TRUTH
instead of the countless fraudclosure crime mills?
The scumbags in charge at the Florida Bar are on the banksters’ payroll just like the bank regulators and the prosecutors.
Fortuantely, there are some honest judges who will follow the law which requires all judges to refuse to allow any party to use fraudulent documents to win cases.
Lisa Madigan lost my file 5 times, judge covered his ears on me.What happened with the AG meetings with the banks? why am i still angry it is 8 months? this has AGED me. GOD BLESS AMERICA
pamelag, are you talking about Il. State AG, Lisa Madigan? I have spoken with her office on many occassions since my pretender lender threw me under the bus with the HAMP loan mod. I do not think her office knows what to do with all of us. Back around Sept, I began talking to her office about the loan mod fraud and lies and her office told me that fraud is hard to prove because you have to prove intent to harm and the fact that they lied to me is even harder to prove. That was a rather missleading statement because these lies are federal crimes, lies would fall under the category I believe of deceptive practices prosecutable under THE RICO ACT and as far as proving the lies and the intent to do permanent harm there are hundreds of thousand of similar and cooberating stories from homeowners just like us who were greatly deceived about BEING APPROVED FOR the HAMP PROGRAM and intentionally thrown into default by our pretender lenders.. Lisa Madigan’s office wanted me to reapply for the HAMP through her office but I opted not to. This is truly a vast conspiracy. I do not think the FBI even knows what to do with us. The FBI seems to want to help but there are just too many of us. I think I may have a criminal lawsuit with my commercial property and I was told by the FBI to file a police report and then my case would go to the Il States Attorney’s office for investigation but my AG’S Office told me to talk to a private attorney first. So what we have here I believe is a game of cat and mouse with the State AG’S who clearly do not know what to do with us. I know the AG’s do not take individual cases but there are sure as hell alot of us so I do not think that would be the issue. The issue here is what do they do with all of us now that we know the truth and now we have proof of RAMPANT MORTGAGE FRAUD THROUGH THE WHOLE OF OUR LOANS? The answer is simple really, RESCIND OUR LOANS, WE WERE VERY DECEPTIVELY AND PERNICIOUSLY FORCED TO PARTICIPATE IN A PONZI SCHEME THAT WE NEVER ASKED TO PARTICIPATE IN NOR WERE WE TOLD WE WERE PARTICIPATING IN AND THE EVIDENCE IS IN THE MORTGAGE FRAUD THROUGH THE WHOLE OF OUR LOANS.
I never understood how the banks/attorneys could present fraud upon the court in the first place and then get a DO OVER. If that were us we would have been heavily fined and thrown in jail and the case thrown out of court completely and thd judge would rule in favor of the defendant.. A backlog of fraudclosures or the excuse that there are too many fraudclosures IS NOT AN EXC– USE. The outrageous amount of fraudclosures in this country is not only a NATIONAL DISGRACE, but should have been ringing alarm bells in the OBAMA ADMINSTRATION long before now. Do they really expect us to believe ALL OF THESE PEOPLE BOUGHT HOMES THEY COULD NOT AFFORD? THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VAST CONSPIRACY. I was in court a couple of weeks ago for a commercial property fraudclosure and the judge went through at least 30 fraudclosures in 20 minutes, 90% of these neither the banks attorneys nor the homeowner showed up. In my case the bank did not show up and they were who filed the motion to sell my property right from under me. FRAUDCLOSUREGATE should be be the top story everyday In the mainstream media. FRAUDCLOSUREGATE IS NOT AND NEVER WAS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT HOMES THEY COULD NOT AFFORD. IT IS ABOUT A SECRET GOVERNMENT HIDING BEHIND THE SCENES TRYING TO UPSURP OUR OWN GOVERNMENT and they are the UN/NEW WORLD ORDER. THEY WANT US TO OWN NOTHING BUT DEBT. THEY WANT TO TRAMPLE ON AND IGNORE OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS AND STEAL OUR WEALTH, OUR JOBS, OUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS AND OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY. Our own Governnent structure is so completely corrupted by them that there is NO JUSTICE in AMERICA. These judges must start enforcing the laws to protect the people. The judges may be starting to wake up and realizing what is at stake here and it is OUR VERY EXISTANCE AS A NATION. RESCIND OUR LOANS, THROW THE CRIMINALS IN JAIL, GIVE BACK THE STOLEN HOMES AND THE STOLEN WEALTH TO THE PEOPLE. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, WE HAVE RIGHTS AND LAWS THAT PROTECT US FROM THESE CRIMINALS. WE THE PEOPLE ARE LIVING A VAST CONSPIRACY TO COMPLETELY OVERTHROW OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
President Obama MUST STOP COWERING TO the U.N./ NEW WORLD ORDER. HE MUST STOP THE THEFT OF THE HOMES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE THE PEOPLE KNOW THE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PONZI SCHEME HEIST AND THE MANUFACTURED FINANCIAL COLLAPSE. HE MUST GIVE THE STOLEN HOMES AND STOLEN WEALTH BACK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND STOP THE FRAUDCLOSURES. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOT NAZI GERMANY. THERE IS NO COVERING UP THE TRUTH, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GIANT CONSPIRACY IS NOT A SECRET. . CONGRESS MUST VOTE FOR THE UNITED STATES TO EXIT THE U.N. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MUST REMAIN THE SOVEIGN NATION THAT OUR FOREFATHERS INTENDED IT TO BE. GOD BLESS AMERICA..
I Vent, when I read your comments, I like what you write, I agree of 99% of what you write and I’m with you, except the part about the UN and the New World Order, other than that you right on the Money, (just my opinion) still great comments
@acmodspecialist: I know it just sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory the U.N./NEW WORLD ORDER is behind all of this. I was oh so surprised to find out many things over the years. You tube has alot of videos about the BLACK POPE, THE JESUITS, THE VATICAN. THE WHOLE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE thing is more real than I could believe. I was shocked being a Catholic my whole life at all of the lies I believed. Jon Phelps wrote a book called the VATICAN ASSASSINS and you can watch the interview on you tube video and there is a website called the forbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth which has an intersting interview with Mr. Phelps entitled Maniacial World Control Thru The Jesuit Order Well-Hidden Soldiers of Satan. It talks about everything he has researched with facts to back up his claims about who was really behind all of the bad stuff in History from the Fed Reserve, the Kennedy Assassination, the sinking of the Titanic, it is pretty eye popping stuff. There is also this link: http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/blackwater-knights-of-malta-in-iraq/ Hidden behind the scenes of all of the troubles in the world are some very deceptive and evil entities who many would never suspect. The U.N and all Federal tranches are really tranches of the Vatican. There is an interesting video on you tube entitled 25 facts every American should know and in there it tells how the U.N. holds all land in AMERICA in FEE SIMPLE. Prepare yourself for a shocker, they are the NEW WORLD ORDER and their plans are no less than a one world tyranny ruled by one dictator. Who would have thought that the most powerful man in the world hidden behind the scenes is the BLACK POPE, he is the real ruler of the world. They are also the U.N.and take on a very many disguises such as the Zionists, the Bilderberg group, the IMF, THE WORLD BANK, THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, THE BRITISH MONARCHY, THE ILLUMINATI, THE FEDERAL RESERVE, THE CENTRAL BANKS, THE CHURCH OF ROME, THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, NYSE/EURONEXT, ALL OF THE FOREIGN MULTINATIONAL BANKS, THE FREEMASONS, THE SKULL AND BONES, THE EUROPEAN UNION, NATO, SECRET SERVICE (S.S.), EVEN THE IRS and our property taxes go to the Vatican. . I kid you not and there are many more tranches I did not mentioned. The top of the heap is the Black Pope who is A/K/A the Anti-pope, then the Jesuits, from what I have read and I studied this for many, many years. Did you know that the GOLDMAN SAKS IS ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST SMOM/VATICAN/JESUIT BANKING PROXIES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD?? They always use perps to hide their true identity, usually jews as the fall guy. It is 100% true. They are really who is behind the destruction of America. This is all out Nazi class warfare all over again. History is repeating itself yet again. You may google any of the names above to seek the truth and i guarantee you will be pissed off beyond belief.
@acmodspecialist: I would not want anyone to just believe me. Search around the web, the library, the book stores. The truth is hidden but not so well hidden as it used to be, They have been ruling in secret since the late 1800’s. There are dots to connect but they can be connected. Gary Kah wrote a great book called En Route to Global Occupation about the NEW WORLD ORDER and all of their evil plans. Ted Flynn also wrote a great many books on the subject like The Thunder of Justice with the forward written by Malachi Martin who was before his mysterious death, a top Catholic theologian and Jesuit scholar who completely agrees and has also written a great many books on the subject of the evils behind the Vatican. You tube also has alot of great stuff about all of this. Even F.D.R spoke about how organized and well hidden they are behind the scenes. They are truly evil incarnate and entirely sacreligous. Dont you remember George Bush Sr. and Jr. both spoke about the NEW WORLD ORDER as well as HENRY KISSINGER? Even Obama said in his State of the Union, This is a new world but strategically, I think, left out the word order. I found it hard myself to keep such an open mind as we have all been trained to not think outside of the box. I found that if it sounds too crazy to be true you are on the right track. Truth really is stranger than fiction.