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How an Obscure & Quasi-legal Outfit Called MERS Is Subverting Our System of Property Rights, & what we can do about it

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Two RICO Class Action lawsuits have commenced against Foreclosure Law Firms and MERSCORP for fabricating and forging documents that are entered into courts as evidence in order to have standing to foreclose.   Unknown to judges and the borrowers, they accept these documents because they are executed under perjury of the law.   These "tromp l'oeil" actions have finally surfaced and the courts have taken notice.

 

The lack of supervision and managing of MERS "Robo-Signers" has led to a national frenzy of fabrication, forgery and certifying officers wearing multiple corporate hats.   Anyone who compares signatures of these certifying officers will see a major problem with forgery in hundreds of thousands affidavits and assignments which creates an enormous dark cloud of title defects for millions of homes across the US.

 

On August 10, 2010 Florida attorney general Bill McCollum announced that he is investigating three foreclosure law firms for allegedly providing fraudulent assignments and affidavits relating in foreclosure cases.

 

In a deposition taken in December 2009, GMAC employee Jeffrey Stephan said he signed 10,000 affidavits or similar documents a month without personally verifying who the mortgage holder was.   That means many foreclosures could have taken place based on false documentation and many homes may have been unlawfully foreclosed on.

 

On September 20, 2010, GMAC halted foreclosures in 23 states.   Two of the three firms being investigated by the Florida attorney general, the Law Office of Marshall C. Watson and the Law Offices of David J. Stern PA, have represented GMAC in foreclosure proceedings.

 

This is not limited to only GMAC Mortgage.   There are many hundreds of thousands of these same bogus documents that are being created by many foreclosure law firms across the nation.

 

University of Utah law professor Christopher L. Peterson claims that MERS must be regarded as a debt collector.   He argues that some of MERS' methods are just the sort of deceptive practices that ought to be regulated under The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U. S. C. -1692(a),(j).

 

Additional class action suits against MERS

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