National mortgage fraud scandal spreads to the judiciary

While the U. S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting mortgage and foreclosure fraud, a national organization that helps homeowners avoid foreclosure has evidence that certain state judges appear to be protecting lawbreakers.  Billions of dollars have been received by corporations in the foreclosure industry since the Great Recession began.  Are these vast sums of money finding their way to elected state judges and politicians?

Evidence of judicial corruption

Under the shade of a giant weeping willow tree in the North Georgia Mountains, Batte presented a cardboard box full of photocopied legal documents.   These copies were obtained from court cases and foreclosure actions from around the nation.  However, the questionable legal actions seem concentrated in the Lower Southeast, where the Great Recession began.

Within the mounds of paperwork, the most obvious violations of federal and state laws involved forged signatures of attorneys, corporate officers and notary publics.  The names on these documents can not be released to the public at this time because such information would interfere with active criminal investigations or are evidence  for civil cases in progress.

There were 12 different signatures on legal documents supposedly reviewed and signed by one attorney.  All of them contrasted starkly with the signature within his own mortgage!   In some of the court cases he was involved with, sloppy and apparently illegal work allowed official court documents to be forged for both parties representing sellers and buyers, or plaintiffs and defendants.

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