Friday, July 26, 2013

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE TRUTH!

NO MR. BERNANKE -NOT SOME OF THE INFORMATION NEEDS TO BE RELEASED- ALL OF IT NEEDS TO BE RELEASED. WE WERE THE VICTIMS AND PROTECTING TO BIG TO FAIL BANKS IS OVER. WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE TRUTH!





"The truth is that they stopped the review process and "Settled" because the regulators were under a mandate to protect the banks. They were finding far too many wrongful and illegal foreclosures. The investigator testified that the sampling they used was not random but rather designed to show how few foreclosures were illegal. But even that showed that at least 6500 homeowners had been illegally foreclosed and evicted. The banks and regulators were sitting on a time bomb so they swept it under the rug with "settlements" to cover up the widespread pandemic rush to illegal, wrongful foreclosures where strangers tot he transaction took title to property at a foreclosure sale by submitting a "Credit bid" in which they had absolutely no interest or authority."  ---- Neil F Garfield Livinglies.me
Not long ago, if someone told you that the government would review the foreclosure process, find that many people were foreclosed illegally and wrongfully --- perhaps up to 90% --- and then step in to protect the banks with a pennies on the dollar settlement WITHOUT TELLING THE FAMILIES THAT WERE WRONGFULLY FORECLOSED THAT IT HAD BEEN DETERMINED THAT THEY WERE ILLEGALLY AND WRONGFULLY FORECLOSED --- you might have said, it can't be true --- things are not that bad.
Besides, you might say, how could the foreclosures have been illegal and wrongful to the point that the banks would agree to pay any settlement, even if it was pennies on the dollar. After all, as Judges are want to say "You took the loan, you didn't pay, you lose your house."
But in open session sworn testimony before the Senate Committee on banking and finance, under questioning from Senator Warren (see recent post for the video) that is exactly what the investigator admitted. In fact, it gets worse --- they entered into the settlement to get this out of the way fast and sweep it under the rug.  And, the investigator admitted that they had not yet notified those whom the agency had already found had definitely been illegally and wrongfully foreclosed and evicted from their homes. Worse, the investigator admitted that no decision had been made when or if those families would be notified.
So here we have the government withholding information of civil and perhaps criminal wrongdoing, not informing the victims that they not only have a cause of action for damages, but that the proof is already in the hands of the regulatory agencies. And perhaps worse, this admission comes AFTER Bernanke assured Senator Warren that the victims would be notified.
So Judges, lawyers, borrowers and investors across the land and indeed across the world are still laboring under the misapprehension that when the dust settles the home will still be foreclosed. Not so.
If the real creditor has not stepped up to enforce the debt there can only be one reason --- they have already been paid. And if they have already been paid, then the balance due from the borrower to that creditor is zero. And if someone else paid it, the most they COULD have is an action in contribution or unjust enrichment against the borrower; but they don't have that right because they expressly waived it. Nonetheless, the Federal reserve is "buying" these mortgage bonds, supposedly backed by mortgage loans that we have now seen were paid or unenforceable at the rate of $85 Billion per month.
The presumption ought to be, based upon the filings of the regulatory agencies, the settlements and the sworn testimony before Congress, that the foreclosure is suspect and Judges should stop ramming these wrongful foreclosures down the throat of lawyers whose objections and arguments are dismissed without a thought. We don't have to wait for the evidence before we decide. The time to decide is now because the evidence IS in.
And even if you can't get the information from the regulatory agencies who claim the results to be confidential even though they admit what is in them, aggressive lawsuits against the pretender lenders should lead to huge awards to borrowers and their attorneys. What are you waiting for? Stop wasting time by delaying the cases so that the client gets another month of free rent and start being the aggressor in discovery, pleading and litigating.


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