Foreclosure Mills Begin Returning To Court With 'Rehabbed' Paperwork Expecting Judges To Sign Off On Prior Screw-Ups

The Palm Beach Post reports:

• Some large law firms that handle the state's foreclosures are regrouping and re-filing court documents that were pulled earlier this fall, claiming that flaws have been fixed and hoping to move home repossessions forward.

• But foreclosure defense attorneys are crying foul. They say judges shouldn't allow simple do-overs on what they believe amounted to fraud upon the court when attorneys submitted "robo-signed" affidavits or other questionable documents that bank and law firm employees have said were not verified, reviewed or correctly notarized.

• St. Petersburg defense attorney Matt Weidner said the re-filings are placing the courts in an "absurd" position, requiring judges to "bless or at least overlook the fraud committed." "The foreclosure mills and their clients have caused themselves and this entire country a profound mess," Weidner said. "Now they want our courts to sign off on their misdeeds."

For more, see Dormant foreclosure cases in Florida starting to trickle back into courts.