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05/30/21

Why Democrats Are Angry At Wall Street NPR

Why Democrats Are Angry At Wall Street
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, hasn't forgotten the Great Recession. In the first half of 2007, Brown recalls, there were more foreclosures in his hometown than anywhere else in the country. It was a period that led to the Global Financial Crisis: Millions of Americans lost their homes, while banks and other corporate sectors were rescued by billions of dollars in bailouts.

05/28/21

House Hearing: Only Jamie Dimon’s Microphone Mysteriously Malfunctions During Pivotal Questioning Wall Street On Parade

House Hearing: Only Jamie Dimon’s Microphone Mysteriously Malfunctions During Pivotal Questioning
CEOs from the six largest banks on Wall Street testified under oath yesterday before the House Financial Services Committee. But only one CEO, Jamie Dimon, had an ear-piercing electronic sound emanate from his microphone, which blocked out the sound of his voice, when he was asked key questions by two separate members of Congress.

05/28/21

Mortgage Foreclosure Freeze Ends Soon — Here Are the Banks Extending the Moratorium Yahoo Finance

Mortgage Foreclosure Freeze Ends Soon — Here Are the Banks Extending the Moratorium
An important COVID-era protection against foreclosures is about to end, and some banks will not extend the benefit. Currently, Americans are protected from losing their homes through a foreclosure moratorium on federally backed loans.

05/28/21

There is no conflict of laws. There is conflict in understanding them. Living Lies

There is no conflict of laws. There is conflict in understanding them.
It is correct to say that Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code adopted in all US jurisdictions applies to negotiable instruments and that article 9 applies to secured transactions.

05/28/21

Why Securitization Does and Should Make a Difference to Consumers Who Think They are Borrowing. Living Lies

Why Securitization Does and Should Make a Difference to Consumers Who Think They are Borrowing.
It’s true. Transactions with consumers have in fact been securitized. What consumers and their lawyers fail to realize is that the securitization of the transaction does not mean that securitization of the underlying obligation or legal debt has occurred.

05/27/21

Bank of America and Chase could restart mortgage foreclosures as early as July, but Wells Fargo is waiting until 2022 CNBC

Bank of America and Chase could restart mortgage foreclosures as early as July, but Wells Fargo is waiting until 2022
It’s been over a year since lenders and the federal government stepped in to help Americans stay in their homes amid the global health and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. And many Americans still need that support.

05/26/21

How Wall Street Manipulates MEDIA and Interest Searches, Producing Financial Suicide By Homeowners and Other Consumer “borrowers” who fail to challenge Claims for Administration, Collection and Enforcement of “Debt” Living Lies

How Wall Street Manipulates MEDIA and Interest Searches, Producing Financial Suicide By Homeowners and Other Consumer “borrowers” who fail to challenge Claims for Administration, Collection and Enforcement of “Debt”
There are two things that are absolutely true. You can prove it by doing the work yourself.

05/26/21

Family Hit With Thousands in Unexpected Fees During Foreclosure NBC Miami

Family Hit With Thousands in Unexpected Fees During Foreclosure
With thousands behind in mortgage payments, foreclosures are expected to rise. NBC 6 Investigators have one family’s fight against foreclosure and how they were hit with tens of thousands in unexpected fees.

05/26/21

17% of Mass. residents worry they could face foreclosure, eviction in the next two months Boston Globe

17% of Mass. residents worry they could face foreclosure, eviction in the next two months
While the pandemic has shaken up life for millions of Americans, it has thrust those already in precarious housing situations into survival mode.

05/25/21

Three Wall Street Mega Banks Have Admitted to a Combined Eight Felony Counts; But Don’t Expect the Word “Felony” to Come Up in Wednesday’s Senate Banking Hearing with their CEOs Wall Street On Parade

Three Wall Street Mega Banks Have Admitted to a Combined Eight Felony Counts; But Don’t Expect the Word “Felony” to Come Up in Wednesday’s Senate Banking Hearing with their CEOs
On Wednesday, the Senate Banking Committee will haul each of the CEOs of the largest U.S. banks on Wall Street to a hearing. Three of those banks have been charged with, and admitted to, egregious felonies. But we will be shocked if any

05/24/21

Concerns Grow as Foreclosure Moratoria Date Nears DSNews

Concerns Grow as Foreclosure Moratoria Date Nears
An analysis by QuoteWizard, a LendingTree company, of American homeowners and renters has found that an increasing number are growing more concerned of keeping a roof over their head as foreclosure moratoria dates grown closer and unemployment levels remain unstable.

05/24/21

The Never-Ending Battle: Fair Housing Advocates and the Fight Against Modern-Day “Shadow” Redlining (Part 2) AHP75

The Never-Ending Battle: Fair Housing Advocates and the Fight Against Modern-Day “Shadow” Redlining (Part 2)
If it holds true that the key to generational wealth in America is, and has largely always been, homeownership, then the opposite holds true for intergenerational poverty. When a person is locked out of the single most commonplace and realistic way to create and sustain wealth in our country, they spend a lifetime wallowing in poverty—or at least in the inability to have access to one of the most tried-and-true methods of rising up into a higher economic class.

05/23/21

Reposting Our Analysis and Conclusions Published about One Month Before the 2008 Crash Living Lies

Reposting Our Analysis and Conclusions Published about One Month Before the 2008 Crash
The only thing we got wrong was that in many cases the originated transaction was not a loan and investors were never purchasing homeowner transactions. They were purchasing unsecured IOUs issued by investment banks who were operating under the name of a fictitious trust that was created solely for receiving bare naked title to documents, while expressly excluding any right, title or interest to any debt, note or mortgage.

05/22/21

Mr. Cooper and Google Partner on New AI Initiative DSNews

Mr. Cooper and Google Partner on New AI Initiative
Mr. Cooper Group Inc. and Google Cloud have joined forces to create a digital mortgage servicing platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data analytics, and cloud scalability to ease the distribution, signing, submission, and review of loan documentation.

05/22/21

Biden's $10 billion in mortgage aid is on the way — here's how you qualify Yahoo Finance

Biden's $10 billion in mortgage aid is on the way — here's how you qualify
Though there are signs the coronavirus cloud over the U.S. economy is lifting, millions are still facing serious financial strains from the pandemic, including the risk that they'll lose the roofs over their heads.

05/21/21

CDC Eviction Moratorium Not Quite Over: Where Do We Go From Here? The National Law Review

CDC Eviction Moratorium Not Quite Over: Where Do We Go From Here?
Last September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered a nationwide eviction moratorium on residential properties. 85 Fed. Reg. 55,292 (Sept. 4, 2020). On May 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that this order was invalid; but on May 14, 2021, despite finding that the CDC did not have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, the court stayed its opinion pending appeal.

05/21/21

Attorneys David Winker and Bruce Jacobs Call Attention to Looming Foreclosure Crisis Miami's Community News

Attorneys David Winker and Bruce Jacobs Call Attention to Looming Foreclosure Crisis
Local Miami victims of predatory lending practices and their attorneys came together to hold a press conference across the street from a Bank of America on Ponce de Leon Ave in Coral Gables on May 19, 2021. At the event,

05/21/21

A Black Woman Says She Had To Hide Her Race To Get A Fair Home Appraisal NPR

A Black Woman Says She Had To Hide Her Race To Get A Fair Home Appraisal
A number of studies have found that Black-owned homes are undervalued when compared to those of white homeowners. This is especially true in historically Black neighborhoods. A 2018 report by the Brookings Institution

05/21/21

Stop Using the Word “Servicer” Living Lies

Stop Using the Word “Servicer”
The courts will always at least initially consider the points that you are raising to be technical attempts to escape liability for a legal debt. You need to reframe the situation.

05/21/21

WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT - Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank National Association Scott Stafne

WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT - Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank National Association
Petition for Discretionary Review

05/21/21

SNOHOMISH COUNTY WASHINGTON SUPERIOR COURT - Bergerons' Response Scott Stafne

SNOHOMISH COUNTY WASHINGTON SUPERIOR COURT - Bergerons' Response
to Deutsche Bank's Motion to Dismiss Bergerons' Counter and Cross Claims

05/20/21

They going to show up and kick me out": Millions face eviction when moratorium ends CBS

They going to show up and kick me out": Millions face eviction when moratorium ends
Dallas — Families across the U.S. don't know if they're going to have a place to stay as states challenge the federal moratorium on evictions imposed during the pandemic. The trickle of evictions could soon become a flood as renters owe $53 billion to landlords.

05/20/21

I wonder if Google understands that they just signed up for assistance with preparation of fraudulent documentation Living Lies

I wonder if Google understands that they just signed up for assistance with preparation of fraudulent documentation
Mr. Cooper Group Inc. and Google Cloud have joined forces to create a digital mortgage servicing platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data analytics, and cloud scalability to ease the distribution, signing, submission, and review of loan documentation.

05/19/21

BLACK KNIGHT, CORE LOGIC MOVE TO AUTOMATED VALUATION FOR APPRAISALS Living Lies

BLACK KNIGHT, CORE LOGIC MOVE TO AUTOMATED VALUATION FOR APPRAISALS
Appraisal fraud creates civil and criminal liability. And it turns out that licensed appraisers are still uncomfortable with the current system of faking appraisals. So the investment banks,

05/19/21

Olympic gold medalist living in car outside her Villa Park home amid identity theft legal battle KTLA

Olympic gold medalist living in car outside her Villa Park home amid identity theft legal battle
Olympic gold medalist and retired basketball player Cindy Brown is living in her car outside her Villa Park home after she says she became a victim of identity theft in a legal battle that’s spanned more than a decade.

05/19/21

How to Actually Prosecute the Financial Crimes of the Very Rich The Atlantic

How to Actually Prosecute the Financial Crimes of the Very Rich
I quit the DOJ because I no longer wanted to participate in a system this permissive.

05/17/21

CoreLogic: Equity Growth Among Homeowners May Provide Significant Foreclosure Barrier Mortgage News Daily

CoreLogic: Equity Growth Among Homeowners May Provide Significant Foreclosure Barrier
Two companies have issued reports on the strong gains in homeowner equity. Not only is this an indication of building household wealth and the ability of the housing market to withstand some of the economic damage of the pandemic according to ATTOM

05/16/21

Color of Money: COVID forced more borrowers to be late on their mortgages than at any time since the Great Recession, CFPB reports Roanoke.com

Color of Money: COVID forced more borrowers to be late on their mortgages than at any time since the Great Recession, CFPB reports
The nation’s consumer watchdog agency says more borrowers are behind on their mortgages than at any time since the Great Recession. And the situation is even worse for Black and Hispanic borrowers, who are twice as likely to be delinquent or in a forbearance program as white borrowers.

05/14/21

NINTH CIRCUIT - Jay J. John v. Quality Loan - Scott Stafne

NINTH CIRCUIT - Jay J. John v. Quality Loan -
Johns Reply to the Answering Brief by Deutsche Bank, as trustee, and Nationstar

05/14/21

The Week Ahead: Servicers Brace for the Future DSNews

The Week Ahead: Servicers Brace for the Future
On Wednesday, May 19, Legal League 100 presents its Spring Servicer Summit, an online virtual event from 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. CDT. The event will bring together mortgage servicing executives and government representatives from across the industry,

05/14/21

Is it a Loan or Not? Living Lies

Is it a Loan or Not?
There is a law against murder, but the law defines murder. So if you accidentally kill someone or kill someone in self-defense it is not murder even though the same shot was fired. The same is true for obligations.

05/12/21

The Big Trap Door for Foreclosure Defense Litigants and Lawyers: Damnum Absque Injuria Living Lies

The Big Trap Door for Foreclosure Defense Litigants and Lawyers: Damnum Absque Injuria
In the introduction of pleadings or memorandums of law, I often read that tens of millions of mortgage loans were sold into the secondary market. It might look like that, but nothing could be further from the truth.

05/11/21

“Servicers” Post Losses: Why? Because most of their revenue and profit comes from foreclosures not servicing Living Lies

“Servicers” Post Losses: Why? Because most of their revenue and profit comes from foreclosures not servicing
If servicers were actually collecting money and dispersing money they would not be reporting heavy losses. The truth is that they don’t collect any money and they don’t make any disbursements to “investors.” That is why they can’t answer questions about collection or disbursements. They are not servicers as we think of servicers.

05/11/21

At $49.1 Trillion, the U.S. Stock Market Is Larger than the Combined GDP of the U.S., China, Japan and Germany Wall Street On Parade

At $49.1 Trillion, the U.S. Stock Market Is Larger than the Combined GDP of the U.S., China, Japan and Germany
When the motherlode of stock market bubbles finally pops, exposing the corrupt edifices on which it was built, you can count on one thing for sure – there will be lots of testimony before Congress that no one could have seen it coming.

05/10/21

OCC Defined Securitization in 1997: This doesn’t look like what is going on now Living Lies

OCC Defined Securitization in 1997: This doesn’t look like what is going on now
Just to make sure readers understand that my writing on securitization is based on the actual definition of securitization and not some theory, it would behoove cynical readers to read the original source material for securitization of loans.

05/10/21

CFPB foreclosure moratorium ‘unnecessary, overbroad’ CUNA

CFPB foreclosure moratorium ‘unnecessary, overbroad’
CUNA supports the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Regulation X amendments regarding streamlined modifications, but strongly objects to a proposed moratorium on foreclosures until 2022.

05/08/21

Skipping mortgage payments? Here’s what you need to know when it’s time to resume Sun Sentinel

Skipping mortgage payments? Here’s what you need to know when it’s time to resume
Mortgage servicers took their sweet time last spring advising customers affected by the pandemic about their right to hit the pause button on making payments with no documentation required, and no penalty charged to get back on track. Now that most of those borrowers are preparing to resume making payments, mortgage servicers are again facing criticism for not being straight with their customers about their options.

05/07/21

Keep Your House: Understanding the lies about the FDIC. Living Lies

Keep Your House: Understanding the lies about the FDIC.
I receive lots of inquiries about foreclosures where the FDIC is involved somewhere in the chain of events. Here is the first point: except in very rare instances, the FDIC is never involved in the title chain.

05/07/21

Forbearance Exits Soar as More Plans Expire Mortgage News Daily

Forbearance Exits Soar as More Plans Expire
There was a sharp decline in the number of loans in forbearance during the week ended May 4.

05/07/21

TK Newsletter: Introducing "Racket of the Week" TK News

TK Newsletter: Introducing "Racket of the Week"
Scandals are coming fast and furious in Wall Street's bubble economy. TK introduces a shortcut guide to tracking financial scandals

05/07/21

North suburban man’s COVID mortgage forbearance nightmare Chicage Sun Times

North suburban man’s COVID mortgage forbearance nightmare
The plans are being extended for many borrowers in hopes the economy improves. But Gregg Pupecki got a big shock when his loan servicer demanded a lump-sum repayment.

05/06/21

Foreclosure and Eviction Moratorium End in Sight, What Next? RIS Media

Foreclosure and Eviction Moratorium End in Sight, What Next?
The end of federal foreclosure and eviction moratoriums is on the horizon, leaving many wondering, “what’s next?” On one side,

05/05/21

Federal judge vacates CDC's eviction moratorium The Hill

Federal judge vacates CDC's eviction moratorium
A federal judge on Wednesday vacated a nationwide freeze on evictions that was put in place by federal health officials to help cash-strapped renters remain in their homes during the pandemic.

05/05/21

This Senate Hearing Video should be seen by anyone who defends foreclosures or any consumer “finance” transaction Living Lies

This Senate Hearing Video should be seen by anyone who defends foreclosures or any consumer “finance” transaction
The only names you see are the ones that the Wall Street banks want you to see. They’re all placeholders, brokers, or conduits. None of them do anything. They don’t lend money, they don’t collect money and they don’t own any debt, note or mortgage.

05/05/21

New York State Senate Extends Foreclosure and Eviction Moratorium From May 1, 2021 ?Until August 31, 2021 JD Supra

New York State Senate Extends Foreclosure and Eviction Moratorium From May 1, 2021 ?Until August 31, 2021
On May 3, 2021, the New York State Senate voted to extend the moratorium on foreclosure and eviction actions provided in the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (S.9114/A.11181)(the “Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act”)until August 31, 2021.

05/05/21

Complaints about mortgage servicers are soaring as millions of Americans still can’t make their monthly payments Marketwatch

Complaints about mortgage servicers are soaring as millions of Americans still can’t make their monthly payments
A year into the pandemic, some homeowners say loan servicers aren’t giving them clear information about mortgage forbearance.

05/04/21

New homebuyers would get tons of cash under plans from Biden and his party Yahoo Finance

New homebuyers would get tons of cash under plans from Biden and his party
One of President Joe Biden’s campaign proposals was a $15,000 incentive to help first-time homebuyers achieve the American Dream. His Democratic party allies have taken that proposal and are running with it...To qualify, individuals must meet income requirements and be "first-generation" homebuyers, meaning anyone who has either never owned their own home or who owned a home once but lost it due to financial distress, including foreclosure.

05/04/21

Mortgage complaints hit three-year-high, CFPB says Housing Wire

Mortgage complaints hit three-year-high, CFPB says
Director reiterates: "As we warned mortgage servicers last month, unprepared is unacceptable.”

05/04/21

Fannie and Freddie Told to Write Their Wills Mortgage News Daily

Fannie and Freddie Told to Write Their Wills
The GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been given orders to develop so-called living wills. Such wills are credible resolution plans that outline

05/04/21

Does the Mortgage Follow the Note or Vica Versa? Living Lies

Does the Mortgage Follow the Note or Vica Versa?
The key to all successful foreclosure defense strategies is to test the facts instead of assuming you know. Most people have their eyes glaze over as soon as you start talking about this.

05/04/21

A practitioner’s guide to helping people facing homelessness access stimulus payments — also known as Economic Impact Payments (EIP) CFPB

A practitioner’s guide to helping people facing homelessness access stimulus payments — also known as Economic Impact Payments (EIP)
If you work with or serve people in your community who are experiencing homelessness, take these steps to help them receive much-needed financial relief.

05/04/21

CFPB Issues Reports Detailing Mortgage Borrowers’ Continuing COVID-19 Challenges CFPB

CFPB Issues Reports Detailing Mortgage Borrowers’ Continuing COVID-19 Challenges
– The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released two reports today showing that more work needs to be done to help mortgage borrowers coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn.

05/03/21

Signatures Without People: Don’t Believe the Documents: They Are Not real. Living Lies

Signatures Without People: Don’t Believe the Documents: They Are Not real.
Be aware that in many cases no human hand has ever touched the documents. Nobody signed it. Securitization was always intended to extinguish the debt without barring the ability to enforce it. This legal impossiblity has been treated as “law” for nearly 25 years.

05/02/21

CFPB Seeks to Hold Mortgage Servicers Accountable, and Establish New Mechanisms for Protecting Borrowers, Against Forthcoming Increase In COVID-19 Foreclosures JD Supra

CFPB Seeks to Hold Mortgage Servicers Accountable, and Establish New Mechanisms for Protecting Borrowers, Against Forthcoming Increase In COVID-19 Foreclosures
This month the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) doubled-down on its earlier warning that the end of 2021 could see widespread foreclosures as COVID-19-related protections expire, by issuing guidance to mortgage servicers, and a notice of proposed rulemaking, regarding actions mortgage servicers can take to deal with the onslaught.

05/02/21

Servicers Should Prepare for Foreclosure Surge Banker And Tradesman

Servicers Should Prepare for Foreclosure Surge
A key federal watchdog agency has warned companies that administer mortgages, either for themselves or on behalf of investors, that they must be prepared for the coming surge of borrowers seeking relief. Unprepared is unacceptable, said Dave Uejio, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “There is a tidal wave of distressed homeowners who will need help in the coming months,” he said.

05/02/21

Is the US headed toward a new housing bubble? The Hill

Is the US headed toward a new housing bubble?
The staggering rise of U.S. home prices is forcing thousands of aspiring buyers into grueling, often risky bidding wars, raising questions about whether the torrid housing market could be in a bubble.

05/01/21

New York’s Highest Court Makes Key Rulings in Favor of Lenders Clarifying What Accelerates and De-Accelerates a Mortgage Debt for Statute of Limitations Purposes JD Supra

New York’s Highest Court Makes Key Rulings in Favor of Lenders Clarifying What Accelerates and De-Accelerates a Mortgage Debt for Statute of Limitations Purposes
The New York Court of Appeals’ decision set bright-line rules that a noteholder’s voluntary discontinuance of a foreclosure action, in itself, revokes the acceleration of a mortgage debt, and a default letter stating that the debt “will” be accelerated does not accelerate the debt. The Court of Appeals also held

05/01/21

Long Island man dodges eviction for 20 years, living in house he doesn’t own NY Post

Long Island man dodges eviction for 20 years, living in house he doesn’t own
A Long Island man who only ever made one mortgage payment has deftly used the courts to stay in the house for 23 years — for free, according to legal papers.

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