An ordinary individual finds a sack of promissory notes, and you might expect him to try to locate the owners of those notes. After all they are the equivalent of cash. But the banker sells the stolen notes with false assignments, insures them, gets them guaranteed with payment proceeds to himself and then settles with the lender for pennies on the dollar. Then the banker sues to collect on the stolen notes and wins. Except in this case the banker created the sack, created the notes, falsified the payee and inflated the amount due. The Banker has successfully stolen the money from the lender and stolen the notes from the lender. Despite 7 years of active litigation the judiciary has still failed to pick up on this scenario. Neil Garfield, http://www.livinglies.me
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I was responding to an email from a lawyer who was wondering if a grievance could be filed against judges who failed to maintain judicial stability and demeanor. I ended up on a rant, and made it into an article. My conclusion is that a grievance is probably not he right venue, but judges should be a little more curious about what really went on in the mortgage meltdown.
I have been thinking about this sort of thing for a while now. The cases are prejudged not only individually by each judge but also because the judges speak with each other, and feed off of the decisions of other trial judges. Adding to this is the bias shown in Appellate courts.
This amounts to several presumptions against the homeowner, who is a best a pawn and at worst a victim of fraud just like the torrent of lawsuits and settlements have been stated by MBS investors, insurers, CDS counterparties, GSE guarantors, law enforcements and regulatory agencies — all saying the same thing: FRAUD (not breach of contract etc.).
Frustration is rising amongst homeowners and attorneys who represent their clients in a kangaroo court where the rules of pleading and the rules of evidence are turned upside down to give the thief the products of his fraudulent scheme.
First is the assumption behind the question “did you get the loan?” This is a fundamental question but the same judge who asks the borrower that question fails to require the foreclosing party that there WAS a loan from anyone in their paper trail. And the same issue applies to acquisition of loans after some bank with a charter makes the loan and then sells it to a “successor in interest.” The reason for this gross failure of the judiciary though is simply because they have never known a scheme like the one perpetrated by the banks this time.
Starting with that premise, the judiciary considers defenses by homeowners as perhaps technically right but leading to an unjust result— the loss of money by a bank who loaned money and who will now lose money if the homeowners’ defenses are applied. The logic is inexorable — it leads to the inevitable conclusion that the judiciary must put on a show about due process, but we all know that the foreclosure is inevitable. The corollary is that the reason the court dockets are clogged are because even though the loan was received by the borrower the homeowners are perpetrators a vast abuse of there judicial system.
In turn, the courts view foreclosure defense lawyers as something less than “real lawyers” and many judges have lost patience with both pro se litigants and lawyers defending the rights of homeowners. In your case, you were genuinely engrossed in a medical problem bunt the judge went ahead anyway because the judge saw the whole thing as “harmless error.” The foreclosure would, in the end, proceed, no matter what you said or what your clients or experts would proffer as facts in testimony.
The result is inexplicable rulings by trial courts and appellate courts. Underlying their opinions, rulings and orders is the basic premise that the homeowner received a loan. And so your judge called you a liar and refused to continue the case despite your inability to appear due to disability. Is this a case where a letter should be sent to the Judicial Qualification Committee or the Florida bar stating a grievance? Yes, as long as you realize that whoever reviews this is going to be suffering from the same delusion that permeates the rest of hedge judiciary. But it is of course relevant that the judge called you a liar, which goes far beyond the subject case at hand, and amounts to slander as well as prejudgment and bias. Perhaps a letter to the judge describing your reputation in the courts and the damage of having a judge call you a liar would cause the judge to reverse the judge’s opinion of you and apologizing for taking her remarks so far.
But the essential point remains the same. The issue is the unfortunate absence of support for basic pleading practice. Just look at the form pleadings published by the Florida Supreme Court, or look at the complaints filed by banks and credit unions for foreclosure. There is a requirement when you plead to collect on a loan to plead that you made the loan. In actions on a note, the requirement that the plaintiff allege financial injury is right there in the the Florida forms.
The real reason why the court dockets are clogged is because judges insist in ignoring basic pleading practice: the allegation of the existence of a debt owed by the Defendant to the Plaintiff and/or the allegation that financial injury has been suffered by the Plaintiff as a result of the failure of the Defendant/homeowner to make the payments set forth in the note.
The second question is whether the homeowners signed the note. The answer in most cases is yes. So what defenses will ultimately have merit in defending the foreclosure?
Even most foreclosure defense attorneys are far too timid in attacking these delusions maintained by the judiciary. They fear looking foolish and the embarrassment of losing repeatedly. They miss the first attack completely — that no, the homeowner did NOT receive a loan from the foreclosing party or anyone in the he chain in most cases. The problem is that their motion to dismiss does not force this issue. the result is that the existence of a debt wherein the homeowner became a debtor TO THE FORECLOSING PARTY is successfully avoided by the banks, as is the requirement of alleging financial injury.
The effect of this is to prevent the homeowner to enter an answer that denies the loan, denies the acquisition of the loan in any sale, and denies financial injury.
Instead by failing to require the banks to make the allegations that are required by the Supreme Court in its published forms, the homeowner is unfairly is unfairly required to raise the issues in affirmative defenses. The pernicious result of that is that the homeowner is required to prove a negative.
Discovery requests are met with fierce resistance by the banks, who usually run out the clock by the time the motion for summary judgment is heard or the the time that the trial occurs. The homeowner is therefore forced to prove a negative, when the rules require the banks to prove a positive fact that is based upon information that is ONLY accessible by the plaintiff.
The reason why the complaints do not allege the existence of a debt arising from receiving a loan from the foreclosing party or any predecessor in the chain of paper is that there is no such debt. The reason why the foreclosing party does not allege financial injury is (a) that there is no such financial injury and (b) the opening of this issue for discovery would require that all accounts be settled and resolved to determine the balance, if any, owed by the homeowner to anyone.
The reason why lawsuits and regulatory actions allege that the broker- dealer investment banks committed fraud is that they intentionally lied and used the investor money to their own benefit. And the reason as why the investors, agencies, insurers, credit default swap counter parties and government sponsored guarantors are alleging fraud — and stating that the closing papers with the borrowers and the mortgage bonds are “unenforceable obligations” and “defective instruments” is because that is an accurate description. And the reason the banks are settling those cases and facing criminal prosecution is because they know that the paperwork is legally indefensible and unenforceable against borrowers.
By some twisted logic, thousands of judges, tens of thousands of lawyers, and millions of owners who lack the information and understanding of this massive fraud, the fraud at one end of the stick (sale of fraudulent mortgage bonds) is ignored on the the other end of the same stick (foreclosure of fraudulent Foreclosures on fatally defective STOLEN notes and mortgages). There was no debt in most of the cases and closings where documents were signed. There is no loss or financial injury to a party who has never funded the origination or acquisition of a loan.
The only debt ever created in most instances was from the homeowner directly to the pension funds and other investors who were left with no enforceable claim to enforce valid notes and mortgages. The only debt due in all cases is the amount due to the investors. Allowing the banks to enforce the debts on paperwork that is evidence of theft is a failure of the judicial system.
The dockets would be cleared with the questions “why have you not alleged a debt owed to you and financial injury?” This would establish jurisdiction or the lack of it at the outset. Unable to prove the debt, and being required to prove it because they alleged it, the banks would shrink from foreclosure and attempt to resolve the issues through non-judicial means.
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