Nothing dies when you have TikTok. Just in time for problematic foreclosures seemingly on the rise again for the first time in several years, a friend sent me this link to a TikTok of the investigative piece Investigative Reporter Dave Biscobing did back in the day in which Dan McCauley and I were interviewed along […]
Call Your Senators; Tell Them NOT to Take Away Your Day in Court Against Big Banks Focus Area: Forced Arbitration For too long, Wall Street lawyers and lobbyists have used a secret tactic, fine print contracts, to take away Americans’ constitutional right to go to court. After more than five years of studying and working […]
A damning new report from a federal watchdog shows that 19 state housing finance agencies wasted millions of dollars that should have gone to struggling homeowners as part of the government’s Hardest Hit Fund program. The report, published Friday by the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, showed that […]
Update: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just sued Ocwen for “failing borrowers throughout mortgage servicing process. It says “mortgage servicer’s widespread errors, shortcuts, and runarounds cost borrowers money, homes.” CFPB Press Release CFPB Complaint The Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State of Maryland issued a Summary Order to Cease and Desist and Partial Summary […]
In case you missed this gem, this decision in Sundquist v. Bank of America, N.A. by a bankruptcy judge in California is a must read. The opening sentence is one of the best I’ve seen lately: Franz Kafka lives. This automatic stay violation reveals that he works at Bank of America. The opinion details the […]
Crisis didn’t just begin with Trump, says Massachusetts senator, “because for years and years and years, Washington has worked just great for the rich and the powerful, but far too often, it hasn’t worked for anyone else” Source: Elizabeth Warren To Democrats: Only an ‘Opposition Party’ Can Defeat Trump
What a shocker. Would you believe that instead of vetting (extremely, bigly, like the immigrants) that Trump is feting the Wall Street criminal geniuses that blew up the economy? I know. After eating some of that fine (read: gristly) Trump steak (spitting it into their napkins), the Wolves of Wall Street leave cackling. Plan? Executed. In record […]
Bloomerg Reports Dems’ Ban of Vote for Foreclosure King The nominations of Steven Mnuchin to lead the Treasury and Tom Price to run Health and Human Services ran into roadblocks Tuesday after Democrats staged a boycott as part of an intensified battle against some of President Donald Trump’s nominees. The Senate Finance Committee was forced […]
It’s no secret that I love Senator Warren. She says it plain but she says it true. She has been a staunch advocate of the middle class and consumers for, well, forever. Before she was a US Senator, she was a law professor and a lawyer. For decades, she has written prolifically and persuasively in […]
Department of Justice proposed a 14-billion dollar fine for Deutsche’s mortgage backed securities scandal (you’re thinking, “you’re going to have to be more specific; which one?”) Wall Street J. Deutsche’s stocks took a tumble late yesterday and continuing today. Before that, last week it was reported in the New Yorker that Deutsche had a newer 10 billion dollar […]
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