“This is no longer a fight about foreclosures – this is a fight for the very integrity of our courthouses. We all pay for this horrendous system, whether our homes are in foreclosure or not. Encouraging foreclosure over modification depresses all home values and stalls our housing recovery. Speak out to your elected officials and tell them you are tired of banks buying their influence and our courts.”
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Florida’s Rocket Docket Redux
Remember the Summer of 2010 when America’s eyes were trained on Jacksonville because of a Rolling Stone article and CNN story describing Florida’s Foreclosure Rocket Dockets?
The national journalism detailed the cozy relationship between the banks’ lawyers and the band of retired judges who, for upwards of $600 per day, rubber-stamped foreclosure judgments in the face of obviously fraudulent evidence. The media coined the term “Robo-Judges.”
You may also recall from that Rolling Stone piece the Chief Judge of the Duval County Rocket Docket famously declaring on CNN that he had never seen any bank fraud in his courtroom. He described the banks’ conduct as merely “sloppy.” I was actually investigated by The Florida Bar for speaking out to CNN about this travesty of justice. With truth as my defense, The Florida Bar could do little to shut me up.
Fast forward to present time and the recent $26B settlement between the mortgage servicing industry and state prosecutors. The servicers agreed to pay this rather paltry fine, with over $8B earmarked for Florida, solely to acknowledge the very fraud our band of retired judges refused to see.
Mercifully, the Statewide Rocket Docket ran out of funding last year, and the retired judges were replaced with judges actually accountable for their conduct.
Well, now it appears that Florida is on the verge of Rocket Docket Redux.
Rest here…
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JUDGES NEED “J-A-I-L” THEY SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, FOR THEIR “FRAUD” ,DECEIT, &
PATHETIC CRIMES THEY’VE DONE TO ALL THE HOMEOWNERS.A;LL I SEE IS THE SAME OLD
CROOKED JUDGE’S FROM THE LAST 10 YRS. TO NOW
THEY NEED TO BE REPLACED W/ “HONEST” JUDGE’S….
THIS IS “MONEY-LAUDERING” “DIS-ORGANIZED-CRIME,” FOR “BIG” DEEP POCKETS THAT’S WHY
JUDGE’S LEAVE WHEN THERE’S NO MORE ROOM IN THE “BRINK’S” TRUCKS & ARE “FULL”
Its called public exposure. Crooks only respond to exposure. The only remedy is light. Dis-infecting light. BRIGHT LIGHT. Remember, speaking the truth, not for simple purposes of malice, is an absolute defense, or so I have come to understand. They can sue you. But they should loose, and otherwise make a spectacle of their themselves. IMHO