Tobin said he wouldn’t call his new job “fun,” but said it was a natural evolution.
“My job is to oversee the operation as best I can,” he said. “That was my job in the courthouse also.”
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Thank you to everyone that came out to protest this event.
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Lawyers, judges debate Florida’s foreclosure backlog
By Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
FORT LAUDERDALE — Leaders of some of the nation’s busiest foreclosure courts gathered Friday to discuss attorney civility, bank honesty and Florida’s towering backlog of 350,000 foreclosure cases.
The forum, called “Bankruptcy and Foreclosure, a View From the Bench,” attracted attorneys and judges from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. It was a chance for attorneys to ask questions of judges outside the courtroom and for judges to voice their gripes about the behavior of lenders and homeowners.
While some questions garnered uncomfortable silence from judges, such as queries about a panel’s opinions of non-judiciary foreclosures and when forged signatures are allowed in court documents, others elicited frank responses.
Notably, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ronald Dresnick lashed out at lenders and borrowers for delaying cases and contributing to the court’s logjam. Broward foreclosure judge Marina Garcia-Wood said about 7,000 “dormant” foreclosure cases are in her system.
Quotes from the rest of the article read like something out of the Twilight Zone…
“Defendants don’t want the cases moved and I’m scratching my head about why the plaintiffs don’t want to move the cases. It’s pathetic.”
And…
It was sponsored by Gissen & Zawyer Process Service, a company under investigation by the state attorney general’s office for alleged problems with foreclosure documents .
WTF!
Former Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin moderated a panel on the state of foreclosures in the courts. Tobin resigned from the bench in May to work for the Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson, which paid $2 million to settle a state attorney general’s investigation into its foreclosure practices this year.
Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and snuggie?
Still, Garcia-Wood said her court handles 250 cases each day .
She stressed the importance of attorneys acting respectfully.
“If you’re not happy about the court’s ruling, instead of rolling your eyes or murmuring under your breath, show me why I should rule in your favor,” she said. “I’m trying to do the best I can.”
Rule in favor of the LAW!
Crazy!
Full article here…
Be sure to voice your concerns in the comments of the original article here…
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A list from Lynn Szymonaik of Fraud Digest.
Lynn Szymonaik list of robo signers on Fraud Digest
Posted by Shelley Erickson on August 2, 2011 at 9:22pm
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Who are the newest signers – who use MERS titles to assign mortgages TO BAC while actually working FOR BAC – signing as if they were MERS officers for dozens of different companies? The names appearing most often include:
Ricki Aguilar
Malik Basurto
Youda Crain
Diana DeAvila
Edward Gallegos
Christopher Herrara
Bud Kamyabi
Tina LeRaybaud
Jane Martorana
Martha Munoz
Srbui Muradyan
Debbie Nieblas
Yomari Quintanilla
Luis Roldan
Miguel Romero
Cynthia Santos
Swarupa Slee
These individuals, in 2011, have signed as MERS officers for the following mortgage companies and banks, including many that no longer existed in 2011:
Aegis Wholesale Corporation
American Brokers Conduit
America’s Wholesale Lender
Amnet Mortgage
Ampro Mortgage
Countrywide Bank, FSB
Decision One Mortgage Company
First Choice Funding, Inc.
First Interstate Financial Corp.
First National Bank of Arizona
Market Street Mortgage Corp.
M/I Financial Corp.
Millenia Funding Corporation
MortgageIt
One Mortgage Company, LLC
Pinnacle Direct Funding Corp.
Pulte Mortgage
Quicken Loans
Universal American Mortgage Company
Service Mortgage Underwriters, Inc.
Wilmington Finance, Inc.
CoreLogic in Chapin, South Carolina, is the keeper of these documents.
Bank of New York Mellon is the trustee for most of the CWABS and CWALT trusts that use these BAC documents.
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“Defendants don’t want the cases moved and I’m scratching my head about why the plaintiffs don’t want to move the cases. It’s pathetic.”
Is this really a headscratcher? Defendants want to keep their houses and Plaintiffs don’t want their fraud exposed is it that simple or am I missing something? Non-judicial foreclosure would be a dream for the FL judicial system instead of the nightmare they have. You know what it means for we poor slobs that have a non-judicial system? The poor defaulter never knows who owns his loan, never has a chance to discover if his documentation is fraudulent, never gets to walk into court to have a chance to present it or is forced into bankruptcy, saving a few months to wind down a no-win pathway where they add all the past default to the bill and you still can’t pay, the only winners are the attorneys and judges in bk court. In fairness our bk judges have tried to get lenders to let them modify loans but nothing doing!
So, is maybe ignorance bliss?
Incompetence, conflicts of interest, ieptitude. Seems like the court system is the weakest link in the totality of the financial crisis. Idiots who are behind the times, ill-informed, and corrupt. With the foreclosure crisis, many more people are aware of how “the system” has always worked. REBEL!!!!
….who would have realized that so many judges would end up in the hip-pockets of the banksters and elites…….That is what happens when you give very honorable, high priority jobs in the courts……to low paid people…like judges. What are they gonna’ do after the country is laid to waste? Leave?…….because there will be nowhere to hide…..murderous, bloodthirsty, homeless, homeowners will be everywhere……
Too much corruption Rob…it is obviously at the State and Local level too…We have to stop participating…