robosigners

"60 Minutes" aired a segment last night on the foreclosure fraud that we in the blogosphere have been discussing for sometime. See "Videos: Depositions of Alleged Robo-Signers From Nationwide Title Clearing" from…

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Over the past several years, Bryan Bly, Crystal Moore and Dhurata Doko have signed thousands of mortgage assignments as vice presidents of Citi Residential and other major lenders. Yet when asked in a recent deposition what a…

Here are Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Nocera of the New York Times having a video debate about the foreclosure crisis.  Nocera thinks this is a key economic issue. Sorkin thinks the issue is overblown. My take: For political reasons,…

Last June I wrote a post on the topic of corporate governance that pointed to one of only two outcomes as the likely result of the bank bailouts. Outcome number one was bank prudence and low credit growth in the face of uncertainty. Outcome…

This bankruptcy attorney in the video below says he has been fighting the robo-signing issue since 2007. He also shows how the signature of certain robo-signers is "comically" different from one document to the next, indicating…

Topic of the Day: Foreclosures Since we haven't really covered the foreclosure crisis here, I will use today's links to point you to some articles on the topic. Hopefully this gives you a comprehensive look into what is happening.…

I haven't been writing about the foreclosure documentation crisis because I have been more focused on the 'currency war'. But I want to flag  three posts I wrote about this time last year on the mortgage and securitization market…