Az Statute on Mortgage Fraud Not Enforced (except against homeowners)

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Lehman retrieves $60bn for creditors

SERVICES YOU NEED EDITOR’S NOTE: We are seeing more and more of these “recoveries.” The question we pose and that should be posed IN COURT is to whom this money is paid and more importantly, how is it going to be credited? Why is that important? ANSWER: If that recovery means that the investors or [...]

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Investors Settle for $600 million — so which loans get credit for that payment?

Editor’s Note: This is what we are hearing about. What about the settlements that go unreported? The number of settlements that are off-record (unreported) is unknown but suspected to be very high. [One of the reasons why it is SO important to get the true CURRENT status of the SPV and the true FULL accounting [...]

800-Numbers Lead to Runaround as Banks Refuse to Modify Mortgages

Rule of Thumb: If they can’t execute a release or satisfaction of the mortgage, then they can’t foreclose. And if they did, it is reversible. Whistle-Blower: Banks Give Homeowners the Runaround “In our managers meeting, which can last eight or nine hours, we probably addressed mortgage modifications five minutes or less,” the banker said. Editor’s [...]

Ambac Clients May Receive 25 Cents on Dollar in Cash

Editor’s Note: The significance of this announcement is that the bondholders, who were insured directly by AMBAC (as opposed to the investment bankers who bought “bets” like credit default swaps) are receiving 25 cents on every dollar they funded as creditors for the funding of loan to homeowners (debtors/ borrowers). This supports and corroborates two [...]

Home Sales Stall: Millions of Homes in Real Inventory

Editor’s Comment: Any lawyer who does not think that issues relating to foreclosure will not dominate his or her practice of law is in a state of denial and delusion. The 16% drop in new home-sale contracts (see article below) means a similar or worse drop in sales over the next 30-60 days. As we [...]