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Corruption? | Foreclosure Fraud Investigators Forced Out at Pam Bondi's Office
Hello all.
This is how scary it is in Florida. The only investigators in the
entire state that were actually doing something to protect Florida
homeowners are now gone…
We have been waiting for this story to break in the press before we
discussed it. Now that it is out we will be providing more details on
what went down here.
These women worked on these investigations intensely for over a year but shortly after Bondi came into office, they were fired…
More to come, but for now, from the Palm Beach Post…
Foreclosure fraud investigators forced out at attorney general’s office
A lead foreclosure fraud investigator for
the state said she and a colleague were forced to resign from the
Florida attorney general’s office, unexpectedly ending their nearly
yearlong pursuit to hold law firms and banks accountable.
Former Assistant Attorney General
Theresa Edwards and colleague June Clarkson had been investigating the
state’s so-called “foreclosure mills,” uncovering evidence of legal
malpractice that also implicated banks and loan servicers.
Despite positive performance
evaluations, Edwards said the two were told during a meeting with their
supervisor in late May to give up their jobs voluntarily or be let go.
Edwards said no reason was given for the move.
“It all happened very abruptly,” said Edwards, who had worked in the attorney general’s office for about three years.
The foreclosure investigations were
launched under former Attorney General Bill McCollum, but Edwards said
she sensed changes were coming under Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney
General Pam Bondi.
“I think they wanted to put people in there that were more in line with their thinking,” Edwards said.
Bondi’s press secretary said Tuesday
that foreclosure investigations are still open and are being personally
led or supervised by Division Director Richard Lawson.
“The division has made these
investigations a top priority and will continue to actively pursue all
of our investigations into foreclosure law firms,” said Jennifer Krell
Davis.
But Edwards said she was given no time
to brief anyone on the investigations and that there were notes that
had yet to be transcribed and filed.
More from the Palm Beach Post Here...
Just goes to show how rigged the game is...
We will be following up on this with more info in the coming weeks...
Their “Unfair, Deceptive and Unconscionable Acts in Foreclosure Cases” presentation from their investigation, which probably got them fired, is below…
www.4closureFraud.org
Unfair, Deceptive and Unconscionable Acts in Foreclosure Cases
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What is more important is why the banks outsource the signing of documents to people posing as bank officers, who are not vested or paid by the banks, when that's a violation of banking regulations?
The answer is to conceal the greater fraud and avoid the liability to the pension funds and investors who put the money up for the Mortgage Backed Securities " MBSs " that were AAA rated and attracted pension fund managers who could invest only in AAA rated investments. It's funny that these same rating agencies, Moodys and others threaten to lower the rating of US bonds, like there judgement is controlled by anybody other than the TBTF banks, who just so happen to want our 50 state attorney generals investigation of fraud to melt away because they "PROMISE" not to violate the laws in the future, and pay a fine, out of the money they stole. Regardless of what the Supreme Court says, Corporations are not "people" and cannot be prosecuted for lying.
Hey I have a great idea! Lets follow the law. By following the law that has been on the books since the start of this country, we can come through this.
A very big problem we have is with political involvement into legal matters. Political involvement into financial matters is what allowed Wall Street & the to big to fail banks to rob every pension holder, every taxpayer, every homeowner whether they have a mortgage or not.
Our Florida governor Rick Scott addressed the Bar Association & urged them to speed up foreclosures, & "lets get back to work" & to change Florida to a non judicial state for foreclosures.
He and his co bank owned Attorney Pam Bondi are totally ignoring the law, and refusing to prosecute fraud committed by the banks, document mills, & the attorneys presenting fraudulent documents in court cases, and filed into the land record.
I sent a e-mail to Pam Bondi that her office did not acknowledged,
Dear Pam Bondi,
I am upset by your lighthanded approach to the fraud that banks and foreclosure law firms have so far gotten away with in this state.
As the chief law enforcement officer in Florida, and a member of the Florida Bar, your duty is clear. To do anything less than full prosecution on those who would, fabricate, and use fraudulent documents in court proceedings is a violation of your oath as a officer of the court, and Attorney General of the state of Florida.
We are in troubled times, and the public needs to know that the law applies to all, great and small. If rule of law, is perceived as rule of the rich, then civil unrest and revolution will be the result.
Do you think Judge Judy would rule in favor of a plaintiff or defendant who produced a fraudulent document to win their case? NO! because it would violate the ”CLEAN HANDS DOCTRINE” that no relief shall be granted to a party who engages in unlawful activity.
I ask that you do your duty.
I urge everyone to send their states attorney general a letter, fax, or e-mail expressing your thoughts about this crime of fraudulent documents being used in court proceedings, and filed in county land offices, corrupting land records, and creating a mess that will take decades to unravel.
People who have worked out a settlement with their now willing to negotiate banks, are halted in their tracks. The courts in Lee County FL are openly disregarding the rules of civil procedure, and the law itself. This is governmental anarchy, should not, and can not be allowed.
If we follow the law, some banks are going to find they have no right to foreclose, not because of what the homeowner did, but because of what the banks did not do.
Why didn't the banks follow procedure? Greed & no liability, corruption of rating agencies, the packaging of self called "bags of shit" to investors, and when they had sold all they could, they shorted the very instruments they had sold, made public the fact, then collected the insurance they placed on it"AIG".
The public knows it's been robbed, & they need to know by whom. Mainstream media is and has been controlled by the same forces that have lead us to where we are at.
The corruption you see has always been with us, just not so bold faced. When election time comes the TV is filled with 30 second sound bites usually saying something negative about the person running against the person or party paying for the spot. Few debates sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce or public television. Few watch, much less attend.
Ignorance and apathy is the damnation of our society and the direct cause of where we find ourselves. People have lost faith in this system of ours, that used to be the envy of the world. Our politicians, on every level of City, State and Federal "especially federal" knows that they are elected by the number of negative spot ad's that they can have played on television, and the number of positive billboards on themselves.
Just as Bush handing out checks to boost the economy had the same effect as running into a theater and screaming fire. Calls on my business phone dropped like a rock, “the economy was bad” was the message being put out. People who had no idea that there was trouble in the economy, because their situation had not changed, suddenly were receiving money that they were supposed to spend to help the economy. Of course retired people put that money straight into the banks, and curtailed their normal spending habits, making the economic crisis a self fulfilling prophecy.
They made a bad situation worse, and I can not accept that it was done out of ignorance of the probable result.
I have been in business here in Pinellas County Fl since 1975 at the same address, with the same phone number, and this is the seventh economic down turn I have suffered through, so I know of what I am saying.
The difference is as all these economic downturns occur we have fewer people employed in the manufacturing sector.
First Nixon opening the door to China, then NAFTA, took jobs out of America, for the profit of Wall St and the multinational corps and banks.
Our bought off leaders have sold out the interest of the American people time and time again.
As displaced workers had to enter the service sector at lower pay, our middle class was reduced in size, and purchasing power.
The retired people have been cheated by the government who have not increased their social security payments in years, while the cost of food, gas, electric bills, water bills, insurance and other expenses go up. Their investments in the stock market, that they made because the traditional CDs they used and trusted, were reduced to nothing after inflation and tax, by actions of the FED, by artificially lowering the interest rate. The way banks can go to the FED window and get money manufactured out of thin air for next to nothing, makes their life savings unimportant to the banks lending ability.
Our lawmakers are financed by the Banks, Wall Street and the Insurance industries, and the contributions and concerns of the citizens are secondary. The same influence that controls our lawmakers, has effect upon our courts and DAs, who bend and stretch the law to accommodate these industries, to the detriment of the public that they represent.
Being a supporter of the non violent overthrow of the Federal Government, and re institution and enforcement of the base constitution I agree that it is time for a cleansing.
If we want to clean up our system & improve it I have some suggestions.
The people are going to have to start voting on issues, not just for representatives
We now have a way in the computer age, to curtail this influence.
People using their social security number log on to the supervisor of elections website in their county of residence and there will be listed upcoming votes that are going before the city, “if they reside in one”county commission, state houses, and federal houses. And if 60% of this popular vote is against the bill or law, or regulation, then it does not pass, but can be brought back up for another vote in 30 days, giving the proponents time to inform the public of it’s benefits, but if it fails to receive 41% approval then it shall not be introduced for one year.
This would stop 90% of corrupt legislation that has flowed from government at every level. And it is part of our constitutional rights to have our consent recognized in this age of electronic banking and investing.
Many people are apathetic about voting because they don’t feel it makes a difference. And in the past elections since the Kennedy/Nixon days, it hasn't, because both major parties have been controlled by the same interest. When the danger of influence by the military industrial complex was given in a speech by then President Eisenhower, who warned the American people, that “We must never let the weight of there influence endanger our liberties or democratic processes, that we should take nothing for granted, that only a alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense, with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together”
Of course after the Kennedy coup they have prospered, while the people fall into poverty, and despair.
The way to correct this situation is the popular vote on issues, a unwritten right granted in the constitution and worth seeking, and fighting for if necessary.
I know this was a long rant on this subject and I feel better now that I have” In the words of Pink Floyd, I have buried my bone , "and every fool knows a dog needs a home, a shelter from pigs on the wing”
florida is owned lock stock and barrel by the bush crime syndicate....it is no wonder that investigation of criminality has been shut down....bondi is a bitch and that really wasn't the word i was thinking...
Prediction: Pam Bondi is going to jail, or she will commit "suicide". She may know way too much.
I think Pam Bondi should re-think her stance, since this puts her in the cross-hairs of being criminally investigated herself once the New American Revolution comes into being and takes hold. She should hope the charges would be Federal when the time comes, as their low security facilities are a bit more relaxed and she won't have as many Dikes complimenting her on her blonde hair and looks.
I hear they pay upwards of $0.17 cents per hour in the kitchen, and you get to eat better than the rest. But you know that prison food is stuffed with fat and calories. She might come out a bigger woman for it all.
Who cares about the AG anyway?
If there is evidence that crimes have been committed then why don't these people take that evidence to the county district attorney?
The larger issues (than the criminal slap on the wrist) is the butt rape from civil suits... those are the only thing with teeth. Simply threatening to invalidate numerous foreclosures because of the fraud upon the court should be enough for the banks/screw ups to pony up some cheese. At this juncture, given the M.O. of these institutions, there will be immediate guilt by association and an inherent shift of burden to them to prove they're legit and did everything on the up and up...
Obviously anything can happen on judicial review... but, I'd much rather be an appellee on any case.
For any of those left among us who still live in the hope that complaint phone calls vave any effect:
Rick Scott office
Citizen Services
850 488 7146
850 488 4441
We got a majority of dumb american bastards here in florida! And that there's how we l'ahk it. Y'all Yankees best just stay out. Y'all just stay up north and out west w'it yer hi-falootin 'lectric cars and sheeyat!
I've never wanted to move out of FL so bad since Slinky Scott Solantis, Medicare burglar extraordinaire and all the rest of them got in - I've met Biondi - not one thought of her own rollin' around in that head. Somebody told me though, she could fit a tennis ball all the way into her mouth. They saw her do it at a fundraiser - now that's real talent. Let's see Palin or Bachman match that feat. Should be prerequisite to any Republican seeking public office... Hey Mitch - see this tennis ball?
I see its business as usual in the USSA! Why am I not surprised?
"Just goes to show how rigged the game is..."
What in Americas free markets, naaahhhh!!!!
Give those Wall Street fraudsters their well-earned taxpayer funded bonuses, promote the politicians and Crony Execs for $Trillion Dollar losses in Fanny and Freddie and slap them all on the back for driving the US property market into the sewer and let's move on (Barney Frank has, he wants DC to ruin the rental sector now)
I bet Karl Denniger (Market Ticker) will be all over this in 3....2....1...
He's done a good job of staying on the banksters and foreclosure robo-signing malfeasances.
One would hope that Florida is not going to go back to rewarding the law firms, judges and mortgage companies that disobey the law for personal gain.
Key word- JUDGES, bingo. The Judges who allowed the Robo-signed documents without verifying the accuracy of such documents, or validity of notary publics. There were Judges who were brought out of retirement just to sit at a desk each morning and "sign" default judgements in Robo-fashion- these Judges got to use a rubber stamp, not even a pen!
It seems to me the State doesn't want to expose the Counties' problems, and that is what has happened in this case.
Looks like Biondi is a corrupt ^%$%#. That would mean that Scott is bought and paid for by the criminals that run the foreclosure fraud.
florida is owned lock stock and barrel by the bush crime syndicate....it is no wonder that investigation of criminality has been shut down....bondi is a bitch and that really wasn't the word i was thinking...
cheer up man, my state is owned by the Obama/Emmanuel crime syndicate, so it could be worse.
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A.K.A. the CIA.
The entire ruling structure of the state is nothing but one big scam.
I haven't read anything yet saying they were any good. Nor have I read anything showing they were forced out in order to get more corruption through the system. Sometimes, people just get fired.
A lead foreclosure fraud investigator for the state said she and a colleague were forced to resign from the Florida attorney general’s office, unexpectedly ending their nearly yearlong pursuit to hold law firms and banks accountable.
Former Assistant Attorney General Theresa Edwards and colleague June Clarkson had been investigating the state’s so-called “foreclosure mills,” uncovering evidence of legal malpractice that also implicated banks and loan servicers.
Despite positive performance evaluations, Edwards said the two were told during a meeting with their supervisor in late May to give up their jobs voluntarily or be let go. Edwards said no reason was given for the move.
“It all happened very abruptly,” said Edwards, who had worked in the attorney general’s office for about three years.
“The division has made these investigations a top priority and will continue to actively pursue all of our investigations into foreclosure law firms,” said Jennifer Krell Davis.
But Edwards said she was given no time to brief anyone on the investigations and that there were notes that had yet to be transcribed and filed.
Positive performance evaluations by whom?
Would assume its by their department or superiors. Who else would it be?
Old boss or new boss? And I suppose we can trust Edwards' claims are true since she probably has no axe to grind. I'm not defending either of them, but there's not enough in this story to justify the dog pile on Bondi and Scott.
You may be right maybe they are lying, but I doubt it. Banks are special interests with mega lobbying power in which the politicians and gov. agencies are captured. Revolving door (future employment), favors, benefits, and various other forms of leverage. Sometimes (usually) you have to read between the lines otherwise by the time you figure out what is happening, its already happened.
That is funny.. No Really, do you work for the Governors Office? or the Republican Party and / or the Koch Brothers?
What have they accomplished down there? Have any charges been brought, anyone in jail?
No really, is there any information to indicate how effective former Assistant Attorney General Theresa Edwards and colleague June Clarkson were in their investigations? Were they Florida's only hope for justice? I think this is a legitimate question.
These 2 ladies got a $2 Million settlement from a foreclosure law firm! That's their "crime"! There were 4 firms total in the suit, 1 settled. Bondi later dropped the case against the other 3. See my other comments at top.
1 correction I'd like to make to my earlier comment- I erred when I said stealing from the Federal Reserve is a Federal crime- The Fed is not part of the Federal Government. So maybe it is perfectly legal for a bank to "steal" from the Fed, and that's why these ladies were fired.
4closureFraud.org,
Girl, you are my hero, but really...half-measures won't work here.
You have to rally the troops.
So who do we email, call etc... and bitch-out about this?
Provide emaill addresses, phone nos.
I want to make their lives miserable for the next few days by letting them know that people all across the nation are watching them.
Here is her facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/pambondi
Where you been 4closureFraud? I've missed your articles.
Tried to post a comment or at the very least "like" what other posters have posted on the FB page in outrage of Bondi's sabatoge, but couldn't find a clickable. I'll try to "Like" her for about the 5 seconds it takes to blast her and then promptly "unlike" her.
M_M
Looks like the hits are coming in! And there is a link in one comment to the article above.
Matthew WeidnerGive Pam a call. Florida Toll Free: 1-866-966-7226
"Austerity" comes to Amerika, Inc.
We need to tighten our belts and eat our peas.
Anyone involved in investigating banking - foreclosure fraud has to be let go. Sorry.
Thanks. Done.
http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/18A7753257FE439085256CC9004EC4F7
Report Bondi hereslf for being an economic criminal--
http://myfloridalegal.com/Contact.nsf/Contact?OpenForm&Section=Economic_...
find the dirt on Pam Bondi......should be easy, she is as dirty as they come.....i want to punch her disgusting face
This is ludicrous. We need to revolt - NOW. The gov't is getting away with thievery and lying.
you might as well sit down and get used to the view becuase NOTHING is going to change. NOTHING!
They know how to fix "problems" in Florida, don't they?
I will assume you wanted my attention?
The Snow Birds who move here.. who are now old and scared of their own shadow.. voted in the Governor.. who has a 5% approval rating. http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1297.xml?ReleaseID=1604
So the Nazi Rick Scott Ordered this.. no doubt so recall his ass.. or hang him whatever comes first. Treason against the people can happen at the State Level Just As Easily as the Federal Level.
Now go buff your "W" sticker on your car so that it is easy to see..
This could be expected. If the sheeple were to be treated as actual citizens, then every single fucking puke of a banker would be hanging from a light pole right now.
Instead, the bankers got even richer with the money stolen from the people under the many and sundry alphabet soup theft programs.
Every aspect of our political and financial system is corrupt. Any attempts to fix the system and restore order will be crushed promptly... You have been warned...
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Courrption is the US, nothing is done above board. Politicians are liars, banks theifs and MOST reporters are a mouthpiece for the US trash. Help this girl get back to work, this is about ObamaCare not the US banking Cartel. This goverment needs an overhauls in 2012. Ron Paul may be the only answer.
it has been time to stretch some necks! get your rope out, starting cussing and let go of your old polite self for a while.. or at least until the works done.
Treason is Treason.. 50,000 American Manufacturing Jobs a Month for a DECADE! were shipped Off Shore!! We paid, when I say we I mean the U.S. Tax Payer! Paid for the Tax Benefits of Moving those Jobs Off Shore. Along with the Subsidies and everything else.
For 10 going on 11 years.. 50,000 Jobs a Month and Not only is it ok! but we pay people to Move the Jobs!
Our Government of Elected Officials.. has NOT! Voted the Will of the People in recent memory. Which is Taxation without Representation.
When will Fat, Lazy, Hippie Fuckers get up and do something about it.. for the last 40 fucking years you lazy pot heads have done nothing and are still talking about Ron Paul? MotherFucker!! YOU NEED A ROPE! NOT A VOTE!
deeds not screeds, seen you in action JW?
should I run out there all by myself so that you will be rid of me?
so that you can talk people into voting for Mit Romney?
I have Rope! I am Happy to move with any movement! I volunteer!
Treason is Treason. 50,000 Jobs a Month for a Decade PLUS!! and "We the People" are still paying for the Tax Breaks, the Subsides for these Moves Off Shore!
If NONE of us Voted for 50,000 jobs to be shipped Off Shore, if NONE of us Voted to Give Tax Breaks and Subsidies to these Corporations who dont pay any Taxes.. then it is Taxation Without Representation!!!!!!!!
What we need to do is Give Corporations carry forward Tax credits (becuase they already dont pay any fucking Taxes) so they will create Jobs! it has worked so well looking back for the last 11 fucking years!
Isn't this in your back yard?
I think this is Broward, where things have always been shady..
Palm Beach County is not the Standard of Florida though it would not hurt the rest of the State to try to be more like Palm Beach County.
Our City's are fine, Our Muni-Bonds are being paid and trading above par, still.
So where I am is not a fair representation of the State.
Ropes not Votes!
That's fucking poetry JW!
Bro, I see it as a Fair and Balanced approach given the behavior of these Lobby Whore Scumbags going back 11 plus fucking years!
I want Austerity!
I want Tax Cuts for the Rich, again.. some more..
I want Cuts to Social Programs..
The sooner these idiots squeeze the people to a breaking point the sooner we can get rid of them and move the Country forward.. Minus the 6% interest payments on $14 Trillion a YEAR!
What is 6% on $14 Trillion? whats the Carry? why do we pay the Federal Reserve 6-fucking-%????
why??
WHY???
WHY???
DO WE PAY 6% TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE????
ON $14 TRILLION???
WHO OWNS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?
WHO GETS PAID THIS MONEY??