BofA Halts Foreclosures in ALL States; Plus Doc Fabrication Price Sheet

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The snowball keeps rolling. On Friday (again waiting until the end of the week for the big news), Bank of America halted foreclosures across all 50 states — more lenders no doubt soon to follow their action. The New York Times reports:

The plan swept states with some of the highest foreclosure levels, including California, [...]

No, Actually, It's the Whole Financial Industry That's Been Lying

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The tide is turning. The shakeup ongoing from recent court cases that have uncovered the extended fraud in the foreclosure industry has given long-battered homeowners newfound power and resolve. On Wednesday, the Home Defenders League launched in California to help homeowners keep their homes and to call on Gov. Schwarzenegger to halt foreclosures in California.

Today, [...]

Foreclosure Fraud Indicates Deep Faultline in Financial World

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I’m not the only one seeing that the major disturbances coming to light in the foreclosure world are not mere surface tremors, but indicate a deep faultline that, as it keeps opening, just may cause the entire industry to fall into the sea.

Wall Street wants us to move along, nothing to see here. Firms [...]

More Big Banks Trapped by Fast Expanding Foreclosure Fraud Discoveries

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Over the weekend, the AP reported that a Wells Fargo executive admitted back in May that he robo-signed up to 150 documents a day, yet that bank is still resisting halting foreclosures. A foreclosure case in Florida involving IndyMac/OneWest Bank was thrown out due to a robo-signer and lack of standing to foreclose. Saturday, [...]

Foreclosure Machine Seizes Up: JPMorgan and GMAC Halt Foreclosures

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Update: BofA waited until the end of the day today to announce it was also halting foreclosures in 23 states. From San Francisco Chronicle:

The move adds the nation’s largest bank to a growing list of mortgage companies whose employees signed documents in foreclosure cases without verifying the information in them.

Due to the [...]

JPMorgan Robo-Signers Unearthed in Florida Foreclosure Battle

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The foreclosure suit heard round the world … the court battle of one Florida homeowner’s foreclosure is calling into question the integrity of thousands of foreclosure notices issued by JPMorgan Chase. The latest: robo signers: document processors who sign off on 10,000 or more documents a month without actually reading them. The Huffington Post reports:

Lawyers [...]

Rep Alan Grayson Gives Heavy Details on Foreclosure Factory of Fraud

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To follow up my post yesterday, Rep. Alan Grayson (D, FL) posted a video today echoing the major impact of recent MERS [Mortgage Electronic Registration System] court rulings and suits. He explains in detail and with examples the racket that is the foreclosure industry, calling it a “factory of fraud.” The implications of the [...]

Big News for Homeowners: Your Home -- and 62-Million of Your Neighbors' -- Could Be Foreclosure-Proof

A recent article from attorney and author Ellen Brown details a court ruling that I thought would be all over top-story news immediately. Due to a recent series of court rulings, 62 million homes could be foreclosure-proof. 62 million homeowners could end up with free and clear title. The chain of title has been broken and no one may have standing to sue. If I were one of those homeowners, I’d certainly want to [...]

Zombie Banks, Economic Tsunamis and the Gold at the Bottom of the Ocean

Many are losing their homes and livelihoods now due to an economic tsunami. While this disaster is man-made, its magnitude is sweeping a good many honorable people away in the surging undertow. The broader truth here is certainly the same as in a natural disaster: there is far greater value in the lives being lived than in the possessions [...]

Defeating Saber-Toothed Financial Tigers part 2: Three Steps to Calm Confidence

We are in the middle of a time of great change, no one seems to have the answers, and the future is shaping up to be a lot different than we expected. There’s a lot on our plates. How do we respond to these collapses and revelations?

Below, I touch on three critical steps you can take personally to release some of the fear that can eat away at your energy and throw you into panic [...]