Was looking at the IG report and it struck me that both Lawson and Muniz were only there for 9 months. Both came in under Bondi so I decided to look into Mr Muniz.
Below is what I found…
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AG Bondi Picks Carlos Muniz from GrayRobinson as Chief of Staff
“Muñiz is currently a shareholder in the Tallahassee office of the law firm GrayRobinson PA. He has extensive legal and policy experience in Florida government, beginning with his service in the administration of Gov. Jeb Bush, where he was deputy general counsel to now-Chief Justice Charles Canady. Muñiz has also served as general counsel to the chief financial officer and deputy chief of staff and counsel to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Muñiz is a graduate of the University of Virginia and of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation from law school, Muñiz clerked for Judge Thomas A. Flannery of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and for Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Muñiz and his wife, Katie, live in Tallahassee with their three children.”
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When Foreclosure Cases Get Tough, Big-Firm Lawyers Step In
Posted by Zach Lowe
October 8, 2010
It has been the biggest–and perhaps murkiest–legal story of the last two weeks: At least three major lenders have halted foreclosures, citing the need to review whether their mortgage documentation is in order and in compliance with court rules in the 23 states that require court approval before a foreclosure can take place. The decisions by the three lenders–JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Ally Financial Inc.–have spotlighted tiny law firms that act as so-called foreclosure mills and the practice among lenders of hiring “robo-signers,” people who sign tens of thousands of documents per month, according to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
But a review of state and federal cases filed in the last few weeks shows lenders are turning away from the “foreclosure mills” and to large law firms when homeowners fight foreclosure and challenge banks to prove their documents are legit. In Florida alone, the following law firms have popped in contentious foreclosure cases in which judges have ruled homeowners might be onto something: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Greenberg Traurig, Akerman Senterfitt, and Gray Robinson.
The case of Parnell Peace serves as a good example. A subsidiary of Bank of America moved to foreclose on Peace’s home in Florida, citing delinquent payments on Peace’s mortgage. To support their case, the bank submitted an affidavit from Dana Heisel, a vice-president of EMC Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage servicer controlled by Bear Stearns. In the affidavit, Heisel wrote that he had “personal knowledge” that BofA and its subsidiary, LaSalle Bank National Association, owned Peace’s mortgage note. Simple enough.
But Peace and his lawyers at Ice Legal didn’t buy it, according to court records and Christopher Immel of Ice Legal. They challenged Heisel and BofA/LaSalle to prove they actually owned the note and to provide the documentation tracing the note from its origins to LaSalle. As a mortgage changes hands during the labyrinthine securitization process, there is supposed to be a paper trail indicating each time the mortgage moves from one owner to another, Immel says. In Peace’s case, that process should have stopped in 2006, when LaSalle took control of a trust that included Peace’s mortgage. But Immel says the bank turned over documents dated as late as 2008, Immel says.
It was around this time that the lender did two things. First: It hired a team from Gray Robinson to start working on the case. Second: They moved to withdraw Heisel’s original affidavit in which he attested to personal knowledge about Peace’s note. That of course made Peace’s legal team interested in knowing why, exactly, the lawyers withdrew Heisel’s original affidavit. The Ice Legal team moved for more discovery, including the deposition of Heisel.
The Gray Robinson team then filed for a protective order to prevent Ice Legal from deposing Heisel, or at least to make them travel to Heisel’s residence in Ohio to depose him, court records show.
So, in a nutshell, Bondi comes in with a new administration, replaces June and Theresa’s Director of Economic Crimes, Mark Hamilton with Richard Lawson, a white collar criminal defense attorney, replaces their chief of staff Joe Jacquot, since he was promoted to Vice President of Government Affairs at Lender Processing Services, with Carlos Muniz from Gray Robinson, a very powerful foreclosure firm, and within months, June and Theresa are terminated. To top it off, we now have an industry friendly report from Florida that favors the industry’s attempt to ward of scrutiny and legitimize the same forgery, perjury, real estate document fraud and fraud upon our courts that is now the subject of a myriad of investigations and/or lawsuits by other law enforcers, including the OCC, FDIC, the Fed, the former OTC, the DOJ, NY Banking Regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, and the AGs in MA, NV, DE, IL, CA, and more.
If you go back and read the “tour the facility” emails between the Fla AGs and the LPS people, it is clear how the relationship between the two is going and how the IG was co-opted by this relationship if only for all the information that is lacking in the IG report
And I thought that the request from Lender Processing Services Attorney to the Florida Attorney General RE Michigan’s criminal complaint into LPS in of itself was bad…
When it is all pieced together… Well, it looks like it’s time for a new tinfoil hat…
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Thank you for being our heros and digging into the FL AG’s level of scumminess. This would otherwise likely not get out unless people like you investigated and made it known. Thank you!!!!
Now, somehow we all need to band together and we need to get this broad thrown out. Every time I see her on TV I could just scream!
The entire Iran crisis is manufactured…they will stop at nothing to distract the American people so the New World Order can steal America…
CNBC reporting fraudclosures are down for 2011…hmmmmm………very deceptive……..
Diana asslicker of CNBC…talking about how they are planning on renting out the peoples stolen homes…..and storage unit rentals are up…I HOPE THEY ALL CHOKE AND DIE ON THEIR DECEPTIONS….!!!
CNBC. Trying to make people accept renting…..!!!!!! Fight those fraudclosures people…..they committed massive fraud in our names and they have no proof they own your loan….because they don’t…they got paid exponontionally for their crimes and now they are committing massive insurance fraud by stealing your home….that they have no legal standing to take!!!!!!
TRAITORS…..!!
That is fascism..,.could they be any bolder about it???? The attorney for the pretender lender in my commercial property fraudclosure was an assisstant to the state AGs office……they are not trying to hide it….the attorney website States this fact….an attorney who is advising me told me that she should remove herself from the case…this stuff is incredibly disturbing….it reminds me of the movie Rosemary’s Baby….you begin to suspect that everyone is in on an evil plan and you come to realize they all are…this plan is every bit as evil and deceptive….they want all of us to be scared…I am not drinking their poison…..they want us to feel helpless..screw. all of these mind control bastards………!!!! Obama and Congress can shove NDAA..up their traitor asses…!
after a thorough examination of the documents these parties have submitted recorded ,and attested as “true and correct” public records ,submitted judicial papers and pleadings,mailed posted notices ; the action of the parties is clear . Any and all evidence needed for public records,judicial process,or final result can and will be fabricated so as to give the appearance of rights,propriety,and execution regardless of legality,ethics or final consequence.Therefore any and all evidence of these parties must be deemed of the same factual quality and reliability without question a high quality ‘imitation”.
the following corollary may be draw.A perfect copy of $100 dollar bill printed on toilet paper and presented but without allowing tactile examination will have in the most obvious conclusion , trying to pay a bill or the intended use of the very same paper will lead to a most unpleasant end result in either situation.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha sheeeeeet!
They want us to “think” they can sell one note hundreds of times because we signed a mortgage…..we signed one mortgage, not hundreds…as a result of what they did, not only is their debt unsustainable but they destroyed that mortgage contract and everyone should stop paying….the people who are paying and refinancing are allowing these criminal banks to hold America and the economy hostage……they are insolvent and the banks, the obama administration and the FED are being allowed to deceive the American people with the big lie that the economy is recovering….the economy is never recovering until these criminal financial institutions are held accountable tor their massive 700 trillion dollar mortgage fraud debt……!!!! Their debt can never be repaid…they are being allowed by the U.S. GOVERNMENT to bankrupt the American people….wake up America…..!!! Stop paying….stop conforming…..stop complying or the end result of this will be HITLERS GERMANY……!!!!!
CNBC REPORTING BANK OF AMERICA IS BACK FROM THE BRINK.,……….LIARS!!!!!!!!!!
Open the books if that is the case,……..! They won’t because they are liars…..! They are being artificially propped up by the FED and those who are still complying and conforming to their lies…..! This is mass deception all being done to bankrupt all of us and steal everything from the people…..!!! Our livelihoods. Our wealth, ourproperty…..and therefore our freedom…….! The NEW WORLD ORDER are using their manufactured financial crisis and their fake war on terror to STEAL AMERICA!!!! STOP PAYING EVERYTHING!!!!
Obama is dangerously deceptive…..watch the you tube video where Rachel maddow shows how obama justifies the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists….they can arrest anyone and detain them indefinitely because of what they “think” you might do..with no rights to an attorney or a trial….WTF??? Obama should be impeached but they won’t because they are all working for the new world order…aka the beast of revelations…….
Doesnt everyone think its time to demand Pam Bondi to Resign…….Really.
http://youtu.be/dTS2o8WQIKQ
Occupy the Courts on 1/20/12……that’s the crime scene !
Awesome….equity free….I have been hoping tor that!!!!! I will be occupying chancery court on Tuesday…I am fighting 2 fraudclosures so I am in court often….hope to see the occupiers at the Daley Center downtown Chicago…..!!!!
Just watched the video….they need to occupy the chancery courts not just the federal courts….that is the real crime scene……!!!
Stacks and stacks of fraudclosures daily…….hardly any legal representation for homeowners…judges turning a blind eye to the fraud….it is a travesty of justice and a disgrace…..!
Hillary Clinton denies U.S. involvement …if this clinton bag-o-crap denies it ,it is almost certain the statement denied is true.
we need RAID bug spray for the GOV as the roaches are running from the light!
I agree..the Clinton’s are liars….the kingpins of the Mena……Arkansas drug running operation…they should be in prison…I think the Clinton body count was up to 150 last I looked…it can be googled….
Time to call Blondie again. I wonder if she know all the blonde jokes going around the office. I was specifically told so by one of her staffers.
The state enablers are key to the Banksters reign of terror – make no mistake about it. This is a long haul war of attrition that cuts right across class lines to what this country is about. Go##amn it!!!
This country is about (trying at least) to house everyone, respecting the rule of law, and due process for all.
Lance Merkel…yes…like 9/11 this was an inside job..America has been hijacked by the new world order because of many traitors from within…how else could it be explained that there have been no criminal prosecutions of any of these crooks and the fraudclosures continue with impunity…?? All roads lead to the corrupt traitor politicians that’s why….!!!!
The media except for Dylan Ratigan, judge napolitano, Lou Dobbs, Max Keiser and rt news are continuing the cover up for the new world order and the biggest robbery of our wealth in history….!!! They think they are safe from this regime because they have jobs and $$$$$…they have a false security…no.one is safe from this fascist tyranny!!!! They are the fourth Reich….!
Dylan is talking about Italy’s #1 banks are the mafia….he is having Elliot Spitzer on next!!
THE SOLUTION:
PUBLIC EXPOSURE & HUMILIATION.
And contracts…….! Bloomberg reporting the dirty bastards are turning stolen fraudclosed homes into rentals…and they are building more apartments for renters…..! Bloomberg also reporting 150,000 people will lose their jobs in the financial sector by 2013…..metlife closing their mortgage origination Dept…RBS…to cut 2% of their workforce…obama said to offer incentives for companies moving back to U.S. to create jobs…..nuclear scientist blown il in Iran….the V.P. of Iran saying Zionist elements are behind the murder…..Hillary Clinton denies U.S. involvement….
If anyone is wondering who the Zionist element is google it……..
They are the hidden power structure carrying out orders for Rome…
A friend once said that he woke up one day and finally understood that everything he was told and believed in about Big business, Organized Religion and Government (BORG) was a lie, but it was the day that the fog around his head finally cleared. We know many of the psychopaths that are supporting the fascist oligarchy that now controls our system and it is going to take a revolution within the legal system to stop them. Physical rebellion has failed throughout the ages, therefore only through a concerted effort to transform the legal system, do we have a chance of ever taking our world to the next age of enlightenment. I just can’t get myself to beleive that it has to be like this everyone; this is insane. We must Repair the Scales of Justice.
I agree..violence solves nothing…time for critical thinking about the ways to fix this…that is what they don’t want…! It starts with removing the traitors from within…they are who are with the terrorists therefore they are terrorists…make all politicians sign contracts…that will take the power out of the hands of the shadow government…that is the only way to take the money power away..weneed to restore checks and balances by making them sign legal contracts…they have Provence promises mean nothing…swearing on the holy bible means nothing to satanists behind the scenes of this….obama said he believes in GOD….he just failed to say his owners God is really Satan..
i meant to sat their promises mean nothing…A big fat ZERO!
Vote for Dr. Ron Paul to END THE FEDERAL RESERVE.
Make all candidates sign contracts…..otherwise their hands are tied by the hidden power structure…!
We need an amendment regarding the politicians must sign legal binding contracts with we the people that they have one year to uphold their political promises…restore and uphold the U.S. CONSTITUTION and ABOLISH THE FED..Or voting is a waste of time and the treason will continue as well as the destruction of America…!!
Ivent,
Contracts only bind honest parties to the contract…. the courts who decide contract disputes are not considering “black letter law” in making their decisions…. They comport themselves in accordance with “green dollar law” instead.
Dan J’s…it will be a simple contract with simple terms…no need for a judges interpretation or ruling…unlike the majority of contracts they use to deceive us with…..
The THRILL of the con, the THRILL of getting away with the crime is as much a motivation to these psychopaths is the money. We ask why do they do it? Is it just for the love of money? NO! Its for the THRILL of GETTING AWAY WITH IT! The non psychopath get a THRILL out of EXPOSING AND PROSECUTING THE PSYCHOPATHS.
Question? WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THOSE WHO SHOULD GET THEIR THRILL IN EXPOSING AND PROSECUTING? WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT THESE PEOPLE WHO WORK TO UNDERMINE EXPOSURE AND PROSECUTION? WHEN THEIR VERY JOBS ARE TO EXPOSE AND PROSECUTE? THE THRILL OF THE CON! THE THRILL OF GETTING AWAY WITH IT!