Tuesday, December 20, 2011

NC Man Booted From Home Without Receiving Notice Of Foreclosure Recovers Title, Sues Servicers Saying They Knew Of Problems & Sold Home Anyway

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In Raleigh, North Carolina, WRAL-TV Channel 5 reports: A Raleigh homeowner is suing two loan companies, claiming they intentionally misled ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

LPS, Confederates Next On Nevada AG Hit List As Foreclosure Document Assembly-Line Sweatshop Faces Robosigner Allegations In Civil Suit

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In Las Vegas, Nevada, KLAS-TV Channel 8 reports: Nevada's Attorney General is going after the nation's largest home default company...

Add One More To List Of Florida Appeals Court Reversals Of Trial Judge Screw-Ups In F'closure Litigation; Lender Must Own Note At Time Of Case Filing

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In West Palm Beach, Florida, The Palm Beach Post reports: Home­owners in foreclosure may have a better chance of getting a true trial, inst...

Feds, Six Defendants Settle Civil Suit Alleging Upfront Fee Loan Modification Ripoffs, Foreclosure Relief Racket

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From the Federal Trade Commission : Six defendants have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they participated in a fraudu...

Brooklyn Judge Boots Foreclosure With Prejudice Over Lawyer's Falilure To Submit Required Affirmation Verifying Accuracy Of Filings

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In Brooklyn, New York, Reuters reports: On Monday, a Brooklyn judge dismissed a mortgage-foreclosure case over a major New York firm's ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Antitrust Feds Bag Five More Suspects In Ongoing Probe Throughout Northern California Into Foreclosure Sale Bid Rigging Rackets

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In Sacramento, California, the Central Valley Business Times reports: Four real estate investors and one auctioneer or “crier” have been in...

Ohio AG Announces Toothless Settlement Agreement With Loan Servicer Over Allegedly Inadequate Loan Modification Practices

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From the Office of the Ohio Attorney General : Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine [] announced an agreement with American Home Mortgage Servi...

Closing Agent Screw-Up Failing To Clear Existing Mortgage Leaves Homebuyers' Equity Tied Up In Escrow Upon Subsequent Sale 12 Years Later

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In Avenel, New Jersey, The Star Ledger reports: It’s not uncommon for funds to be held aside in escrow during a home sale. The money is kep...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Head Of Long Island Straw Buyer Racket Gets 4-12 Years; Scam Involved Use Of Forged Deeds, Unwitting Homeowners Victimized By Identity Theft

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In Nassau County, New York, the Long Island Press reports: A Westbury man has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for leading a $2...

Denver Cops Pinch One, Look For Another In Title-Snatching Scam Targeting Vacant Homes In Foreclosure, Victimizing Unsuspecting Buyers, Renters

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In Denver, Colorado, KMGH-TV Channel 7 reports: A man accused of selling and renting homes he didn’t own was formally charged Monday. Alfon...

Unwitting Would-Be Tenants Continue Falling For Foreclosure Rent Scams

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In Rockwall County, Texas, WFAA-TV Channel 8 reports: From the stockings to the Christmas tree, Kimberly Agee and her family planned to cel...

Court Boots Bulk Of Cleveland's Public Nuisance Suit Attempting To Hold Banksters Responsible For Peddling Subprime Loans

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In Cleveland, Ohio, The Plain Dealer reports: A Cuyahoga County judge has dismissed most of a 2008 public nuisance lawsuit Cleveland offici...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Suit: "Another Tale Of Bank Of America Cheating Its Customers" As Bankster Is Accused Of Putting Borrower Into Default w/ Unauthorized Escrow Account

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In San Diego, California, Courthouse News Service reports: Bank of America found a new way to illegally extract money from customers, accor...
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Despite Having Valid Loan Mod In Place, Homeowner Nearly Loses Home To BofA Foreclosure; Bankster Halts Sale After Media Steps In, Shines Spotlight

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In Rio Grande Valley, Texas, KRGV-TV Channel 5 reports: A national bank admits its error almost cost a Valley family its home. The home loa...

Lawsuit: BofA Continues Harrassing Elderly Central Florida Couple After Foreclosing Over Payment Made Too Early

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In New Port Richey, Florida, the St. Petersburg Times reports: For the Bullingtons, dealing with Bank of America is like something out of G...

BofA Continues Attacks On Hapless Homeowners; Refuses To Honor Earlier-Granted Loan Modification To Widow After Hubby's Recent Death

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In Phoenix, Arizona, KPHO-TV Channel 5 reports: June Geffre lost her husband Tom to pancreatic cancer in November 2009. Months before he di...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Imprisoned Bay State Con Man Answers New Fraud Charges Of Taking Property Owners' Cash In Real Estate Deals & Allowing Mortgages To Go Into Default

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In Fall River, Massachusetts, The Herald News reports: Joseph Pereira made another appearance in court Tuesday, doing what must be familiar...

California AG Bags Pair, Seeks Extradition On Another As Criminal Prosecutions Of Alleged Loan Modification Rackets Continue Picking Up Steam

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From the Office of the California Attorney General : Attorney General Kamala D. Harris [] announced the arrests of two Southern California m...

Sacramento Feds Indict Five In Upfront Fee, Fractional Interest Deed Transfer Foreclosure Rescue Racket Employing Abuse Of Bankruptcy Courts

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From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Sacramento, California): United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that five persons had ...

HAMP Paperwork-Processing Scams Pick Up Speed As Bogus 'Experts' Come Out Of The Woodwork To Grab Cash From Unwitting Homeowners

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The New York Post reports: Once again, mortgage servicers are hitting ordinary New York homeowners where it hurts. The latest evidence is w...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

POA-Holding Woman Said To Have Known Or Wilfully Closed Eyes To Dementia-Suffering Senior's Capacity In Misusing Loot From $2.25M Sale Of Property

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In Brisbane, Australia, The Courier Mail reports: A LOGAN City Council councillor has admitted she knew a dementia patient did not have the...

Boston Feds: Closing Attorney Snatched $3M+ In Real Estate Escrow Cash, Failing To Pay Off Existing Mortgages

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From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Boston, Massachusetts): A Fairhaven attorney with an office in Taunton was charged [] in federal cour...

Feds Grab Fugitive After Int'l Manhunt; Suspect Accused Of Abusing POA By Putting Disabled Man's Home, Cash Into Her Name After Victim Suffered Stroke

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In Upper Gwynedd Pennsylvania, Montgomery News reports: It was Thanksgiving dinner behind bars for an Upper Gwynedd woman who allegedly sto...

Nephew Returns To Great Britain To Face Sentencing After Abusing POA To Rip Off 93-Year Old, Dementia-Suffering Aunt Out Of Home, Cash

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In Scarborough, United Kingdom, the Scarborough Evening News reports: A 93-YEAR-OLD Scarborough woman was left almost destitute and reliant...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Florida Supremes Send Shivers Thru Bankster Community; Kibosh Sneaky Effort To Buy Out Of Robosigning Litigation By Settling Case With Homeowner

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In Tallahassee, Florida, Sunshine Slate reports: In a split ruling likely to send shivers through the mortgage banking community , the Flor...

Foreclosure Rescue Scammer Convicted On State Charges Now Chased By Feds For Running Same Racket While Being Prosecuted In Earlier Case

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In Northern California, The Modesto Bee reports: Facing foreclosure, a Turlock homeowner two weeks ago signed over part interest in his pro...

Feds Indict Trio In Alleged South Florida Sale Leaseback Equity Stripping Racket

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From the U.S. Department of Justice : Lisa Wright, 46, and Cathy Saffer, 52, of Pompano Beach, Fla., were charged [] with a conspiracy to d...

Elderly Widow Tricked Into Signing Over Deed To Home Dies As Legal Battle To Recover Title, Possession Of Premises Remains Unresolved

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In New Port Richey, Florida, the St. Petersburg Times reports: On the last day Eloise Mudway was alive, she still worried about being mistr...

Upstate NY Sale Leaseback Peddler Gets 4 To 12 For Grand Larceny Conviction In Equity Stripping Ripoff Of Cash-Poor, Hi-Equity Homeowners In F'closure

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In Albany, New York, the Albany Times Union reports: Five former employees of a Colonie firm that conned property owners, banks and lender...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Recently-Released Transcripts Of Grand Jury Hearing Sheds Light In Nevada Robosigning Probe

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In Las Vegas, Nevada, KSNV-TV MyNews Channel 3 reports: The massive robo-signing scandal that throws into question tens of thousands of Las...

Housing/Civil Rights Lawsuit: Denial Of 'Affordable Housing' Condo Building Application Due To Town's 'No Blacks' Policy

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In Darien, Connecticut, The New York Times reports: DARIEN’S attitudes toward affordable housing are once again under scrutiny, this time i...