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allegations of widespread forgery, fraud, and mishandling/loss of various documents necessary to the foreclosure process on the part of various mortgage servicers. It appears that many people are being deprived of their property rights in the rush to work through the backlog of foreclosures
their employees have admitted filing false affidavits attesting to having fully reviewed each of the tens of thousands of mortgage files to make sure they had the legal right to take ownership of the homes.
Under pressure from Attorneys General in many states, including Connecticut, evictions have stopped and some if not all foreclosure actions were frozen in states were judicial reviews are required (California is an exception to that rule).
Judging by Citi’s lack of a blanket statement that it did everything properly, its likely that Citi will be following Chase and GMAC.
If you work in the mortgage industry or for a title insurer, you might not want to make any plans for the next six months. Foreclosuregate is about to explode. It is being alleged that many prominent mortgage lenders have been using materially flawed paperwork to evict homeowners. Apparently officials at quite a few of these firms have been signing thousands upon thousands of foreclosure documents without even looking at them. In addition, it is being alleged that much of the documentation for these mortgages that are being foreclosed upon is either "improper" or is actually "missing". As lawyers start to smell blood in the water, lawsuits challenging these foreclosures have already started springing up from coast to coast. In fact, some are already calling Foreclosuregate the biggest fraud in the history of the capital markets. JPMorgan Chase, Ally Bank's GMAC Mortgage and PNC Financial have all suspended foreclosures in the 23 U.S. states where foreclosures must be approved by a judge. Bank of America has actually suspended foreclosures in all 50 states. Now, law enforcement authorities from coast to coast are calling for investigations into this controversy and it could be years before this thing gets unraveled.