Saturday, October 1, 2011

California City Begins Using Violations Of Public Health Ordinance As Quick, Easy Way To Boot Squatters In Vacant F'closed Homes Without Court Process

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In Manteca, California, the Manteca Bulletin reports: Every neighborhood seems to have one. And they’re not hard to spot. They are foreclos...

Former Charleston Navy Base Foreclosure Leads To Boot For Homeless Veterans Benefitting From McKinney Act

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In Charleston, South Carolina, The Post and Courier reports: Since the Navy shuttered its base in North Charleston, more than 2,000 homeles...

Landowner's Unpaid Water Bills & Mortgage Payments, Failing Sewage System Threaten To Drive Mobile Home Park Residents Out Of Their Homes

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In Clermont County, Ohio, WKRC-TV Channel 12 reports: Dozens of worried mobile home park residents crowd into a Clermont County courtroom, ...

Outfits Peddling Anti-Homestead Tax Exemption Fraud Software, Services Target Cash-Strapped Counties Desperate For Funds

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From a press release from LexisNexis regarding a recent conference of county tax assessment administrators: LexisNexis will be conducting d...

Cops Pinch Man Facing F'closure For Running Indoor Pot Farm Out Of Home; Suspect Said He Needed To Supplement Income After Boss Cut His Hours At Work

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In Oak Lawn, Illinois, The SouthtownStar reports: A 34-year-old Oak Lawn man who allegedly was growing more than a dozen marijuana plants a...
Friday, September 30, 2011

State Bar Gives Golden State Counsel Six Months In Penalty Box For Violating Tenants' Rights In Running Fraudulent Robosigning F'closure Eviction Mill

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In San Francisco, California, Highland News reports: Two years after Tenants Together demanded that attorney David Endres stop illegally e...

Cops Bust Foreclosed Homeowner On Charges Of Stripping Fixtures From Former Home, Using Craigslist Ads To Unload Goods

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In Woodbury, Minnesota, KSTP-TV Channel 5 reports: A 35-year-old Woodbury woman is accused of selling thousands of dollars worth of fixture...

Vacant Foreclosed Home Hijacking Incidents On The Rise In Los Angeles

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In Los Angeles, California, Fox Channel 11 reports: Law enforcement officials say that when houses go into foreclosure, well-organized crim...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

WPB Cops Pinch Now-Disbarred Title/Closing Attorney For $800K+ In Real Estate Escrow Account Ripoffs

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In West Palm Beach, Florida, The Palm Beach Post reports: A disbarred Wellington attorney defrauded clients out of more than $800,000 while...

NYC-Area Title Insurance Agency Operator Gets 20 Months For Misappropriating Million$ In Client Cash From Escrow Accounts In Real Estate Transactions

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From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (New York City): PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, anno...

Closing Agency Owner Gets 3+ Years For Snatching Escrow Cash; Took $200K To Buy Out Prior Owners; Says 'I Didn't Steal The Loot, I Only Borrowed It!'

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In Missoula, Montana, the Ravalli Republic reports: The owner of a Florence escrow company will spend 3 1/2 years in prison and be required...

'Stagecoach To Hell' Accused Of More Sleaze; Homeowners' Attorney: "They Forged Signatures, They Backdated Documents. We've Got Them Cold!"

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In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports: A Las Vegas attorney who represents people facing foreclosure has accused Wells...

Elderly Fresno-Area Senior Cops Plea To Grand Theft Charges In Vacant Foreclosed Home Hijacking Scam; Rented 13 Houses, Scouted 150 Others, Say Cops

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In Fresno, California, KMJN Radio reports: A Fresno man admitted his role in an elaborate foreclosure scam late Monday afternoon -- a scam ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

'Criminal Charges Coming To A Mortgage Servicing Racket Near You!': Nevada AG

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HousingWire reports: Mortgage servicers could soon face criminal actions in Nevada, according to the state Attorney General Catherine Corte...

Kentucky AG On Foreclosure Fraud Probe: "There Should Be Absolutely No Criminal, Civil Immunity Given To Banks For Activity Not Yet Investigated!"

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The Huffington Post reports: li>Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has added his name to a list of state law enforcers who fear that ...

Federal Appeals Court Affirms 10-Year Prison Sentence For Notorious Central Florida Foreclosure Rescue, Home Equity Scammer

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From a recent ruling from a federal appeals court : Peter James Porcelli, II, appeals his sentence for one count of mail fraud, in violation...

Report Shines Light On Effects Of Robosigning Racket On Prince William Land Document Public Records

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In Prince William County, Virginia, The Washington Post reports: Lenders may have foreclosed on hundreds of homeowners in Prince William Co...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

U.S. Labor Department To BofA: 'You Illegally Fired Mortgage Fraud Whistleblower For Doing Her Job - Now Pay Her $930K & Give Her Back Her Job!'

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Michael Hudson of the The Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News reports: In the summer of 2007, a team of corporate investigators ...

Federal Agency Inspector General: Fannie Had Chance To Catch Its Law Firms Manucaturing Phony Foreclosure Documents & Blew It!

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The Associated Press reports: Fannie Mae missed chances to catch law firms illegally signing foreclosure documents and its government overs...

Utah Federal Judge Boots Post-Foreclosure Eviction Case Back To State Court

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In Salt Lake City, Utah, KCSG-TV reports: St. George attorney John Christian Barlow , representating homeowners who have been lost their ho...

Homeowner's Post-F'closure Sale Bankrptcy Leaves Winning Bidder Holding The Bag Where Trustee's Deed Had Yet To Be Executed At Time Of Petition Filing

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Lexology reports: The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California recently held that the filing of a bankruptcy p...
Monday, September 26, 2011

F'closing Banksters Score Another Big 'Win' As Lender Dodges Bullet, 'Games' Judicial System, 'Buys Off' Homeowner; Ohio Supremes Declare Issue "Moot"

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Foreclosing banksters throughout the U.S. are presumably in a celebratory mood as they have recently succeeded in buying off another homeown...

Government Suits Targeting Banksters' Recording Fee Dodge Begin To Attract Interest, Gain Traction

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Bloomberg reports: Bank of America Corp. is among a group of lenders that may face a wave of new lawsuits claiming cash-strapped counties w...

Dallas DA Fires Shot At MERS; Sues Suspected Racket, Others Over Alleged Mortgage Recording Fee Dodge Costing County Million$

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In Dallas, Texas, the Dallas Observer reports: District Attorney Craig Watkins on behalf of Dallas County, Texas, commenced an action again...

'Forced Sale" Homestead Protection Pierced Where Out-Of-State Judgment Creditor Traces Cash Obtained Through "Constructive Fraud" To Florida Home

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Lexology reports: The District Court of Appeal of Florida upheld an exception to the Florida homestead exemption in a case where a trustee/...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Sleazy Banksters To Launch Toll-Free Phone Number In Search For Robosigner Victims?

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The Wall Street Journal reports: It probably won’t include “1-800-ROBO,” but big banks are preparing to launch a toll-free number to find c...

Lamenting Booting Of 101 Year Old Homeowner, HUD Backpeddles, Says She Can Come Back To Her Home Of 50+ Years & Stay As Long As She Wants

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In Detroit, Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports: A 101-year-old Detroit woman evicted from her home earlier this week says she's g...

Real Estate Investor Scores Win With Court-Ordered Sale Stall In Effort To Save Home From Foreclosure Fraud; "We're Not Trying To Get A Free House!"

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In San Antonio, Texas, the San Antonio Express News reports: A San Antonio real estate investor who helps homeowners avoid foreclosure, rec...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Fannie Screw-Up Leads To Sale Of Occupied REO; Tenant In Possession Refuses To Move Until Expiration Of 90-Day Notice, Leaving Homebuyer 'Homeless'

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In Lithonia, Georgia, WSB-TV Channel 2 reports: Officials with government mortgage giant Fannie Mae said they're investigating a DeKalb...

Home Pledged By Mom To Secure Bond To Spring Bailjumping Cop/Son Not In Her Name, Leaving Feds Holding The Bag

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In Miami, Florida, The Miami Herald reports: The mother of fugitive cop David Britto used her Coral Springs home as collateral to get her s...

Ex-'Monster House' Owner Gets Probation On Grand Theft Charge Alleging $1M In Fixture Ripoffs After Mansion Foreclosure

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In Vista, California, The San Diego Union Tribune reports: A woman accused of stealing $1 million in fixtures from an Olivenhain mansion th...

Mobile Home Residents Face Utility Shutoffs After Landowner Stiffs Water & Power Companies Out Of Nearly $100K

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In Hamilton County, Ohio, WKRC-TV Channel 12 reports: A local landlord was ordered to court [] and then ordered to stay in his seat by a Ha...