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Racketeering Charge Against BofA and MERS

Posted by Larry Doyle on May 10th, 2012 5:32 AM |

A little over a year ago I became aware of robo-signing within the mortgage servicing industry and broached the topic that the activity likely rose to a level of racketeering. I aggressively questioned, Did Wall Street Violate the Racketeering Act?

Believing that the activity did likely rise to a level of racketeering, I recommended that attorneys general should pursue institutions involved in these fraudulent and abusive practices with a RICO action.

Well, it appears that somebody is now doing just that with specific focus on  activities that transpired at Bank of America and MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration System). (more…)

You’re Screwed by Wall Street Mortgage Settlement

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 20th, 2012 1:06 PM |

The American system of justice used to be predicated on the fact that those who committed transgressions paid the penalty. Regrettably, that system of justice is now a distant memory in regard to the adjudication of certain massive and egregious financial practices.

Has it become all too overwhelming for you to keep up with the violation of contracts and moral hazards in America today? I implore you not to give up the fight as future generations are counting on us to stand up for real justice. I addressed the injustice last week in writing, Mortgage Settlement Defines Racketeering:

If the Wall Street mortgage settlement is supposed to define justice, then crime certainly does pay. (more…)

Mortgage Settlement Defines Racketeering

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 13th, 2012 5:51 AM |

If the Wall Street mortgage settlement is supposed to define justice, then crime certainly does pay.

Having asked repeatedly in 2011 whether Wall Street mortgage servicing practices qualified as a racket and thus the charges filed should have been addressed as a RICO violation, yesterday we received our answer.

By any measure of ‘sense on cents’, the evidence provided screams of a RICO violation. The verdict delivered?  (more…)

Mortgage Settlement Pisses Into the Wind

Posted by Larry Doyle on February 12th, 2012 5:34 PM |

In a nation now all too familiar with a “too big to fail” banking system, a heavily manipulated and high frequency dominated equity market, and an incestuous financial regulatory system, we should not be surprised with a mortgage settlement that does little more than ‘piss into the wind’.

Pardon my cynicism, but one does not need to look too deeply into the recently announced mortgage settlement to understand there is little in the way of meaningful justice embedded in this contrivance. (more…)

$8.5 Billion Settlement but No Fraud, Right? They Must Think We’re Stupid.

Posted by Larry Doyle on June 29th, 2011 6:44 AM |

They must think we’re stupid.

News that Bank of America is poised to pay an $8.5 billion settlement in a claim by investors that the firm and a predecessor sold packages of loans/securities which did not meet standards and provide proper disclosures is a joke. Regrettably the joke is on us, that is, the citizens of this great land.

$8.5 billion may be a lot of money but what price warrants real justice? (more…)






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