Posted on October 27, 2009. Filed under: Banking, Finance, Foreclosure Defense, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending | Tags: affidavit, Assignment, fighting foreclosure, Figting Foreclosure, foreclosure prevention, forensic loan audit, how to stop foreclosure, loan document audit, MERS, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, mortgage litigation, predatory loan, predatory servicing |
In bankruptcy and government takeovers of financial institutions, missing collateral is a major obstacle for trustees and regulators to overcome. The missing assignment problem is an extension of not carelessness or sloppiness as many have claimed, but of overt acts of fraud.
Skilled attorneys and forensic accounting experts could expose this fraud and as such, the [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Politics, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: predatory loan, mortgage modification, loan audit, foreclosure prevention, how to stop foreclosure, Figting Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Loan Modification, fighting foreclosure, forensic loan audit, loan document audit, Foreclosure Defense, mortgage litigation, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending Case Law, Produce The Note, Missing Note |
Fight Club entered popular culture in 1999 when director David Fincher adapted Chuck Palahniuk’s novel into a film that reflected the zeitgeist of modern America with its empty culture, obsession with aesthetic beauty, and slavish under and middle classes.
Warning: Decade-old spoiler coming up.
The film ends with the agents of “Project Mayhem,” protagonist Tyler Durden’s followers, [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Housing, Legislation, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending | Tags: fighting foreclosure, Figting Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, foreclosure prevention, forensic loan audit, loan audit, loan document audit, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Default, Mortgage Law, mortgage litigation, mortgage modification, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan, TILA Case Law |
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars that the government is spending to help financially pressed homeowners avert foreclosure are passing through — and enriching — companies accused of preying on the people they are supposed to help, an Associated Press investigation has found.The companies, known as mortgage servicers, collect monthly payments from homeowners and funnel the [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2009. Filed under: Banking, Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Housing, Legislation, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law, Politics, Predatory Lending, Refinance, bankruptcy | Tags: fighting foreclosure, Figting Foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, foreclosure prevention, forensic loan audit, how to stop foreclosure, loan audit, loan document audit, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Default, Mortgage Law, mortgage litigation, mortgage modification, predatory loan |
They are telling you to run away from loan modification companies who charge a fee. They are paying the politicians to introduce laws making it difficult for you to hire an attorney when negotiating a loan workout. They want you to contact them directly and without the assistance of an advocate. They are scaring you [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Legislation, Mortgage Fraud, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act | Tags: Case Law, consumer credit protection act, deceptive lending practices, forensic loan audit, Housing, loan audit, loan document audit, Loan Modification, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Law, mortgage litigation, mortgage modification, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan, RESPA Case Law, TILA Case Law, Truth in Lending Act |
Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states could enforce some of their consumer protection laws against national banks, a move that could lead to tougher oversight than federal regulators have provided in recent years.
The 5-4 decision in a case involving attempts by New York’s attorney general to enforce fair-lending laws was [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Mortgage Audit, Refinance, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: how to stop foreclosure, loan audit, loan document audit, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Default, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, mortgage litigation, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan, RESPA Case Law, right to rescind, tila, TILA Case Law, TILA violations, Truth in Lending Act, truth in lending law |
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND. Hon. Mary M. Lisi, U.S. District Judge.
Melfi v. WMC Mortg. Corp., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1454 (D.R.I., Jan. 9, 2009)
DISPOSITION:
Affirmed.
COUNSEL: Christopher M. Lefebvre with whom Claude F. Lefebvre and Christopher M. Lefebvre, P.C. were on brief for appellant.
Jeffrey S. Patterson with [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: fighting foreclosure, Figting Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, foreclosure prevention, forensic loan audit, loan audit, loan document audit, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Default, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, mortgage litigation, mortgage modification, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan, regulation z, TILA Case Law, TILA violations, Truth in Lending Act, truth in lending law |
Iris Martin
My new book, Mortgage Wars, will guide you, step by step, through a war plan of engagement that has been followed by many homeowners who have won their mortgage wars. You will meet them and their attorneys throughout the book. You will learn about how you were defrauded and why; why the government cannot [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: fighting foreclosure, Figting Foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, foreclosure prevention, forensic loan audit, loan document audit, Mortgage Law, mortgage litigation, mortgage modification, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan, respa violations, right to rescind, stop foreclosure, tila, TILA violations, Truth in Lending Act, truth in lending law |
Homeowners, welcome to Paradise Lost, the fate of millions of financially strapped boomers. A simultaneous loss of life savings, job income and foreclosure has many of them wondering, “Whose America is this, anyway? The bankers got bonuses to defraud us, and our industries and economy are in the pits. We worked for decades to live [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2009. Filed under: Finance, Housing, Politics, Predatory Lending | Tags: Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law, Politics, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan |
This lecture was delivered on March 25, 2009, at Union Theological Seminary in a public forum, “Christianity and the U.S. Crisis,” associated with a class co-taught by Cornel West, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien. It is an abridged version of a chapter in Dorrien’s forthcoming book, Social Justice in Question: Economy, Difference, Empire, and Progressive [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2009. Filed under: Legislation, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending | Tags: how to stop foreclosure, loan audit, loan document audit, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Predatory Lending Case Law, predatory loan |
That’s the question that New York Times economics reporter Edmund L. Andrews tries to answer about himself in a new piece for the Times Magazine, which is being previewed on the website this week. And it must be some species of triumph that Andrews manages to make a story about refinancing a complicated mortgage a [...]
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