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by Mike on September 7, 2010
Demanding foreclosure accountability Michael Redman and Lisa Epstein didn’t take their foreclosure cases sitting down – they fought back, and fought back hard. Now, in part due to their hard work and tireless advocacy, the Florida Attorney General’s office has launched investigations into four of the largest foreclosure plaintiff’s firms in Florida. Epstein and Redman […]
by Mike on September 7, 2010
Foreclosure Myths and Facts If you read the newspapers, you’ll know two things about foreclosures in Florida: There’s a huge “backlog” – that’s what the banks call it when they can’t ram their fraudulent cases through the court system to take people’s homes fast enough; and, There’s a huge amount of fraud slipping through the […]
by Mike on August 27, 2010
Regular readers of this site know that much of the “evidence” banks try to introduce into foreclosure cases is either inadmissible or sometime just flat-out fake. The national news media is picking up on this crisis. The National Law Journal reports on the use of boilerplate affidavits in Florida’s foreclosure cases: Defense lawyers across Florida […]
In every foreclosure case, there are at least one, possibly two, points at which a legal notice must be published. In every foreclosure case, the notice of sale must be published in a local newspaper twice before the sale (Fla. Stat. § 45.031 (2)) and in some cases, if the owner of the property cannot be […]
by Mike on April 24, 2010
Dear Florida judges: You’re under a lot of pressure. We understand. Foreclosure cases are at an all-time high, and still rising – and you have to figure out a way to handle them all. The foreclosure docket threatens to crowd out almost every other civil matter pending before the court – and now that foreclosure […]
by Mike on April 19, 2010
The Wall Street Journal published an article on the two Sixth Circuit cases I wrote about last week, both the Harpster and the Visicaro cases. The article quotes a lawyer in David J. Stern’s office, Forrest McSurdy, who makes the outrageous statement that: Judges get in a whirl about technicalities because the courts are overwhelmed. […]
by Mike on April 16, 2010
Last week, we learned that many foreclosure cases have been granted based on inadmissible “Affidavits of Indebtedness” and falsified assignment documents. This week, some of the foreclosure mill lawyers pushing this fake paper have realized they’ve backed themselves into a corner. [PDF] MR. OSBORNE: It appears that our affidavits will be — will need to […]
Foreclosure plaintiff submits faked assignment documents in Pasco case Imagine you’ve been sued for foreclosure. Now, imagine the plaintiff submits, as evidence, a bunch of falsified documents to establish its right to foreclose. That could never happen, right? Wrong. It did, and Pasco Judge Lynn Tepper found out and would not stand for it, in […]