MSNBC has posted its interview with April Charney, the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid lawyer who has pioneered the field of foreclosure defense here in Florida.
“You ever look into a place where snakes hang out?” she asks in the middle of a conversation about the loan officers, appraisers, investment bankers, attorneys and others that she believes are responsible for the nation’s worsening financial crisis. “That’s what I see here. They’re writhing and oozing and morphing into creepy stuff with slime all over it.”
Then in her quiet, gentle drawl — the kind of voice that could get you invited to afternoon drinks on the finest porches in South Florida, where she grew up — she leans forward and says quite earnestly, “Not to discredit snakes or anything.”
Besides April’s dry humor, the article is a must read for anyone who’s interested in our current mortgage and foreclosure crisis, how the financial industry has hopelessly screwed up our residential real estate system, and what’s going to happen when a certain five-year deadline starts hitting some of these loans early next year.
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