Your Foreclosure Could Be Invalid, According to the CA Supreme Court

If your house has been foreclosed on, that foreclosure might be invalid under a new ruling from the state Supreme Court.

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https://theintercept.com/2016/02/19/siding-with-a-victim-of-fraudulent-foreclosure-california-court-exposes-a-failure-of-law-enforcement/

Assembly Member Miguel Santiago Sponsors Foreclosure Fair, Los Angeles

UPDATE

FORECLOSURE FAIR & MORTGAGE FRAUD PANEL 

Resource Tables

•  SoCal Gas

•  L.A. County District Attorney’s Office

•  US Bankruptcy Court

•  Public Council

•  Neighborhood Housing Services L.A. County

•  L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Office

•  Contractors State Licensing Board

•  Occupy Fights Foreclosure

•  Bureau of Real Estate

•  Dept. of Bussiness Oversight

•  State Bar of CA

•  Congressmember Xavier Becerra (Boyle Heights only)

•  Congressmember Lucille Roybal-Allard (Huntington Park only)

•  Los Angeles City Councilmember Huizar (Boyle Heights only)

•  Assemblymember Miguel Santiago

•  Montebello Housing and Development Corporation (Boyle Heights only)

•  Keep Your Home CA (Huntington Park only)

 

Speakers

•  Dept. of Bussiness Oversight – Antonia Villasenor (Moderator)

•  Occupy Fights Foreclosure – Carlos Marroquin

•  Bureau of Real Estate – Amelia Nunez

•  State Bar of CA – Carina Franck-Pantone

•  Keep Your Home CA – Denise Teora

•  U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Gabriela Huerta or Otoniel Gonsales

•  L.A. County District Attorney – Deve Lopez

Big banks are violating The National Mortgage Fraud Settlement Agreement

WEAK OVERSIGHT

The nation’s largest mortgage lenders are violating the terms of a punitive 2012 settlement that was meant to prevent unfair and unnecessary foreclosures that destroyed communities and pushed working families from their homes. 

Interviews by POLITICO with more than 20 housing counselors, Legal Aid lawyers and government prosecutors in states hard hit by the real estate crisis that followed the 2007 financial meltdown reveal that the nation’s top lenders are violating the settlement and rules put in place last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In some cases, the problems — repeated requests for the same documents, for example — stem from ongoing disorganization deep inside the loan servicing departments of the banks, but some homeowners and their representatives claim the issues are a deliberate attempt to use foreclosure to resolve cases that have lingered for years.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/foreclosures-mortgage-lenders-2012-settlement-banks-213322

Tricks Banks Use to Drive Homeowners Into Foreclosure

Banks have become just mortgage servicing agents and foreclosure of your home is their new business model. Protect your home by learning about the tricks they play.

Most homeowners are unaware that their mortgage banks make more money from foreclosure than actual payment.  Mortgage banks give as few modifications as possible and comply minimally with statutes put in place to protect borrowers, all while employing tricks to “cash in” on homeowners’ defaults, pushing them to foreclosure.  The banks take the risk of litigation because few people sue, but getting legal assistance as soon as possible can make the difference between homeowners asserting their rights or losing their homes while being bulldozed by the bank.

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http://newswire.net/newsroom/news/00088375-6-tricks-banks-use-to-drive-homeowners-into-foreclosure.html

Homeowner Wins Against Wells Fargo

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http://www.examiner.com/article/us-bank-and-wells-fargo-fall-asleep-at-the-foreclosure-wheel-case-dismissed

Why Eric Holder’s new job is an insult to the American public

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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/why_eric_holders_new_job_is_an_insult_to_the_american_public/

By David Dayen

Judge: Brown and Legislature illegally raided homeowners fund

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-Brown-and-Legislature-illegally-raided-6329098.php

New Hampshire Bar Association to Offer Free Foreclosure Clinic

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http://www.fosters.com/article/20150614/NEWS/150619616

Families Protest Abusive Foreclosure Practices of Wells Fargo Bank

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http://la.indymedia.org/news/2015/04/267984.php

The bank moved to seize a widow’s home. But it didn’t tell her the loan was insured

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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/banking/article18700647.html

U.S. judge finds Wells Fargo Breached 2010 Mortgage Settlement

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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0N72MM20150416?irpc=932

Obama’s Foreclosure Relief Program Was Designed to Help Bankers, Not Homeowners

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http://billmoyers.com/2015/02/14/needless-default/

FEDERAL JUDGE SLAMS WELLS FARGO FOR FORGED MORTGAGE DOCS

READ FULL STORY HERE http://nypost.com/2015/01/31/ny-federal-judge-slams-wells-fargo-for-forged-mortgage-docs/

Two Judges Who Get it About Banks

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/business/01gret.html?referrer=&_r=0

DID CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS FAILED HOMEOWNERS?

READ FULL RESPONSE HERE

http://www.occupyfightsforeclosures.org/considering_kamala_harris_to_represent_california_citizens

FORECLOSURES: Does Utah or Texas Law Govern Here?

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http://www.sltrib.com/news/1988735-155/foreclosures-does-utah-or-texas-law

Two More Law Firms Charge With Fraud

FULL STORY HERE

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/22/us-usa-colorado-foreclosure-idUSKBN0K01YQ20141222

Wall Streets Washington Friends with Benefits

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http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/columnists/ted-kaufman/2014/12/12/wall-streets-washington-friends-benefits/20321805/

Vietnam War Widow Battles Foreclosure Fraud

FULL STORY HERE

http://www.occupy.com/article/vietnam-war-widow-battles-foreclosure-fraud

We Need to Rethink Foreclosures in Detroit

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http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2014/11/30/detroit-foreclosures-blight-wayne-county/19630497/