Beyond Robo-Signing Mortgage Fraud
We hear so much about how the banks in their haste to make the
big money and land grab, falsified and forged documents. The
use of so-called "robo-signers", who are people that do not
really exist and whose names pop up all over various documents,
for instance; the same name might show up as a Vice President of
one company, but then (sometimes within the same chain of title)
pop up again as an officer of another company. This, in and of
itself is fraud. What does that mean, well it means a breach of
contract, and it carries a criminal penalty as well...
theoretically. A contract that has been breached due to fraud is
null and void. What does that mean? Well, it's complicated to say
the least.
How is the fraud being dealt with? The Attorney Generals of all
fifty states have given big notice to the citizens of this fine
country that they will look into the situation, and that the
guilty parties will be held accountable for their actions. Their
plan is to allow for a correction of the deficiencies in the
chain of title, and to reach some type of settlement with the
banks to allow troubled mortgages to be modified. You know,
it's really hard for me to say all of this with a straight
face. All of this is more or less being chalked up to a clerical
error.
Now, for the "Beyond" part that I so dramatically titled this
post. Indeed it is dramatic, and I hope you will listen
up. All of the events of the past couple of years were no
accident. High default was created by design, in order to take
your property and your money, so far it has been a huge success
for the bank. The robo-signing thing was just sloppiness on their
behalf and a bit of a ploy to keep everyone distracted from the
bigger fraud. The banks began re-constructing the transaction, so
that the mortgage note itself was equal to it's face value as
money, based upon your signature and credit. Essentially, the
note is what funds the deal, the bank not only risks nothing,
they are paid in full within a very short period following the
closing of the transaction. The receipt of the face value of the
note goes onto their books as a liabilty, and indeed, they claim
it as a debt owed to you when they file their taxes. Meaning that
it is recognised as an asset that you created, that they are
borrowing to use. None of this was disclosed to you, the alleged
"borrower".
It gets better. When the originating bank sells the note, which
actually tracks through a very complex path, it eventually ends
up deposited into a pooling trust. At that time, it is converted
from a negotiable instrument, into a stock certificate or
equivalent. This is called securitization. Once this type of
securitization takes place, the note ceases to be tied to the
property, because it has now been forever severed from the deed
of trust or mortgage. (This is one way that the bank creates
money, read "Modern Money Mechanics, which is the guideline
pamphlet published by the Federal Reserve). The trust which
contains your note is ruled by a lengthy set of documents called
the 424B-5 Prospectus, within that set of docs is a sub set of
docs called the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (PSA). This is
what the bank never wants you to see, because this Prospectus is
filed with the SEC, it can only be filed if the note has been
converted, which makes it cease to be attached to the property.
The note can NEVER be converted back, this is a permanent change,
and within a short time after the note is deposited into the
trust, it becomes a permanent fixture of that trust, it can NEVER
be removed. The trust itself can never own property, it's against
the rules.
When you make a payment, you have a statement that shows how much
principle and interest you are allegedly paying. However, when
the paper trial of your payment is followed, all of the money is
being dispersed partially to the Servicer (your so-called
"lender") partially in other fees and partially to the trust
itself. The only accounting for your payments is one that is made
up for purposes of sending you a statement, it's theoretical,
there is no actual accounting that shows a "loan" being paid
down. All of this is major fraud, never disclosed to you the
borrower, and millions of dollars were made by the bank and
investors because your signature appears at the bottom of
the note, not because the note has anything to do with the
property. In the case of default, everybody is insured, the
servicer and the trust, so everyone is paid, then, the property
is taken back, (illegally, because only a creditor or holder in
due course of the negotiable instrument, ie; the note can
foreclose) and the property is sold. To recap, they make money
from you on payments, they make money from selling it many times
to investors and fractional banking, they collect insurance, and
they take over the property and sell it, that looks like
quadruple dipping to me! At the very least it's insurance fraud,
how are they able to collect insurance money, AND take the
property too to resell, all of that money is more icing on the
cake.
Stay tuned for more when Part 2 of this post comes out in a
couple of days.
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