Max Gardner’s long-standing battle against predatory lenders, mortgage foreclosure fraud and dishonest debt collectors is well known to those who follow these issues. Nye Lavalle’s diligent years-long effort to document and expose the flaws in the mortgage servicing and foreclosure process is certainly well known now through this explosive New York Times article. What most don’t know is that Max and Nye first connected about …
Fannie Mae Didn’t Act on Early Evidence of Foreclosure Fraud, Impropriety
“Any attorney general, lawyer, bank director, judge, regulator or member of Congress who does not open their eyes to the abuse, ask pertinent questions and allow proper investigation and discovery is only assisting in the concealment of what may be the fraud of our lifetime.” -Nye Lavalle Quite possibly, you’ve never head of Nye Lavalle. If you have, it probably …
Max Gardner’s Truth in Mortgage Documents Act
1. On every Mortgage Assignment, and every Missing or Lost Assignment Affidavit, filed in the Official Records of any county in this State, or filed in any Court in this State, each signer, including any witness or notary, must sign his or her own name, regardless of any authorization by any individual or entity to sign any other name. 2. …
Beau Biden on Occupy Wall Street
Delaware Attorney General, Beau Biden, interviewed on MSNBC’s ‘UP with Chris Hayes’ discussing, among other things, the state attorneys general negotiations with the banks. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
A Word from Boot Camper Tom Cox
Back when I was on the side of the financial institutions, I really do believe that they were mostly honest. During the S & L crisis of the late 80s and early 90s when there was a significant increase in loan collection and foreclosure activity (nothing close to what we are facing now), lawyers for the bank workout officers and …
The Big News in the Foreclosure Industry is that Nothing Has Changed
Robo-signing has been national news for months, and an increasing number of foreclosure defense attorneys, bankruptcy lawyers and others working on behalf of consumers have grown wise to the ways of mortgage servicers and their brethren. Courts, even some that originally turned a blind eye, are beginning to look hard at servicers, banks, foreclosure plaintiffs attorneys and everyone else involved …
Boot Camper Linda Tirelli Talks to Reuters about the Foreclosure Crisis
Our own Linda Tirelli talked with Reuters about robo-signing, the challenges homeowners should be raising in foreclosure cases, bringing back judicial modification and much more in this excellent video interview. Watch the interview here: Reuters Video
“MERS & Banks may have added fraud to the repertoire of services they offer”
Just one day after Guilford County, NC Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen announced a press conference during which he would reveal the findings of his investigation into fraudulent mortgage practices, Essex Southern District (of Massachusetts) Registry of Deeds and Register John O’Brien announced that he had forwarded certified copies of 286 Bank of America’s mortgage discharges recorded with what he calls “questionable and possibly …
North Carolina Register of Deeds to Hold Mortgage Fraud Press Conference
Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen will hold a press conference in the Blue Room in the Old Guilford County Courthouse on Wednesday, May 6th at 10 am. Thigpen will reveal the results of an internal investigation undertaken after a recent 60 Minutes segment which exposed fraudulent activity on the part of DocX, which is owned by Lender Processing Servicers …
A Mortgage Mess Metaphor
Boot Camper Matthew Bogosian recently posted this metaphor for the mortgage foreclosure process that’s been running wild across the country on his blog. It’s funny because it’s so true…and not funny, because it’s so true. Definitely worth a read for those who have been watching in dismay as fake documents and “well, you owe the money to someone” philosophies have …