Posted on 02/06/2011 5:14:56 PM PST by Kartographer
The Florida attorney general's economic crimes division is investigating three law firms, including Stern's, over allegations that they created fraudulent legal documents, gouged homeowners with inflated fees, steered business to companies they owned and filed foreclosures without proving the bank actually had a legal interest in the loan. Florida authorities characterize the foreclosure process at these law firms as a "virtual morass" of "fake documents" and depicted Stern's operations as something akin to the TV show "Lost" — only instead of people that went missing, it was paperwork. Stern's employees churned out bogus mortgage assignments, faked signatures, falsified notarizations and foreclosed on people without verifying their identities, the amounts they owed or who owned their loans, according to employee testimony. The attorney general is also looking at whether Stern paid kickbacks to big banks.
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There's a couple of FReepers this guy should hire as his counsel they could easily get this poor man off these bogus charges!
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I’m a Florida admitted attorney, and I must agree that Stern is inexcusable. Without defending him in the least - you have to look at the “foreclosure defense” bar as well. In Florida, from start to finish, a judicial foreclosure can take from 2-5 years. Most of those taking 5 years had 9 yards of procedural maneuvers to simply delay the inevitable.
The robo-signing, the forged signatures are outrageous, but I’m not going to be able to generate a lot of sympathy for people who are, in effect, living in their homes for years, rent-free. When you trace back the losses to lenders - all the way to their final resting place in our financial system, there is a pretty good chance that taxpayers dollars are involved. It’s a mess all the way around.
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Just thought you'd want to join the party over here since you're the resident expert on the subject. Unlike those of us that have spent day after day viewing actual documents filed in cases... uncovering fraud on an immense scale.
When you trace back the losses to lenders - all the way to their final resting place in our financial system.....
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Can you name one instance where a originating bank (pretending to be a lender) , has allowed discovery or actually disclosed the true lenders identity that table funded the loans? I have never seen anything “traced back” ... I just want to know where BofA , WF , GS and others are hiding their gains .. maybe the Caymens or Bahamas.. Sterns money is in the Caymens.. maybe he’ll take “Su Casa Es Mi Casa” on one final trip to the Caymens to visit his stash ,, if his Chinese backers don’t murder him.
Dam I like your sense of drama.
I’m a Florida admitted attorney, and I must agree that Stern is inexcusable. Without defending him in the least - you have to look at the “foreclosure defense” bar as well. In Florida, from start to finish, a judicial foreclosure can take from 2-5 years. Most of those taking 5 years had 9 yards of procedural maneuvers to simply delay the inevitable.
The robo-signing, the forged signatures are outrageous, but I’m not going to be able to generate a lot of sympathy for people who are, in effect, living in their homes for years, rent-free. When you trace back the losses to lenders - all the way to their final resting place in our financial system, there is a pretty good chance that taxpayers dollars are involved. It’s a mess all the way around.
Stern was taking in $18,000,000 a MONTH ...
Defend that, please.
How's that go? Do you just stand up and say "My name is Wally_Kallbacken and I am an attorney" like AA or what?
“The robo-signing, the forged signatures are outrageous, but I’m not going to be able to generate a lot of sympathy for people who are, in effect, living in their homes for years, rent-free. When you trace back the losses to lenders - all the way to their final resting place in our financial system, there is a pretty good chance that taxpayers dollars are involved. It’s a mess all the way around.”
The wheels of justice turn slowly sometimes but since we are supposed to be a nation of laws unless we want to go the banana republic route ordinary people have just as much right to use the court system no matter how long it takes.
I have more sympathy for those people who according to the article tried to have their loans modified and then were taken advantage of by this guy.
And I have more sympathy for the people who tried to keep their homes with modifications then I do for the banks that stopped using prudent lending standards and developed these toxic loans then infected the financial system. Who should know better a Banker who has knowledge of what all those lending terms mean or a Borrower?
The Bankers didn’t care they were slicing them up and then selling them to unwary investors as AAA. The Borrower’s were being told they could refinance or sell when they reset by lenders, brokers, the media. It was the thing to do buy before they couldn’t. The loan officer tried to talk my daughter into one of those loans I advised her against it but they pushed hard.
Another reason this is so important is the title. People have a right to have a clean title when they finish paying off their loans. Even if people are buying a foreclosed home they could otherwise end up a victim of the banks who developed and used MERS.
You are right about taxpayer dollars being involved not only from the bail out but the banks are dumping the loans unto the taxpayers through the GSE’s and even the one’s sued for put back’s by the GSE’s because of the banks practices we are only getting a lousy penny on the dollar. The people who were foreclosed on they get to help pay for the banks bad deeds not only with the loss of their homes but their taxes.
Unlimited credit for GSEs seen as backdoor bailout
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/05/us-usa-housing-bailout-idUSTRE6044YU20100105
Banks accepted and bundled ‘deficient’ loans
Mortgages rejected by due-diligence firm were lumped in, crisis panel says
Lousy penny on the dollar to taxpayers
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/03/is-fannie-bailing-out-the-banks/
Nobody held the banks at gunpoint to make subprime loans.
If they don’t like it that foreclosures are difficult, then they should have more stringent lending standards.
The banks made a bad business decision to invest in these people. Hence, they pay the consequences.
Cutting corners by committing fraud? Bad decision.
I agree if they didn’t create these toxic loans in the first place we would all be better off.
Dam I like your sense of drama.
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Not drama ,, Davey Stern sold most of DJSP enterprises IPO to the Chinese , it is incorporated in the Caymens and he has a jet powered Italian Yacht named “Su Casa Es Mi Casa”..
DJS burned everyone he ever dealt with. Rumors swirl that he’s fled the country. I doubt that...the Chinese mafia wants to talk to him.
Looks as if Dave’s “Su Casa Es Mi Casa” has been beached upon a sandbar.
Ironic that Dave’s little joke for his yacht’s name meant to boast of his profession and poke fun at people who were losing their homes has now placed him in legal crosshairs and may well have ended his chosen career. Of course, he’ll either now file for bankruptcy protection and get into politics or his several bankster buddies will employ him as consulting counsel in order to keep his palm greased and his mouth shut.
However, if his lips prove too weak, he might be out feeding the alligators one day and have an accident...
What no reply from Org.Whodat? I am shocked! ;-)
Unaware, he just got his notice of trustee sale.
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