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Foreclosure fraud in California: San Francisco County

Aequitas Compliance Solutions, a Newport Beach mortgage regulatory compliance firm, was hired by Phil Ting, the San Francisco assessor-recorder, to audit the files of nearly 400 foreclosed properties in his county. Their report titled “Foreclosure in California: A Crisis of…

Foreclosure fraud: forgery charges against DocX in Missouri

Last week a Missouri grand jury handed up an 136-count indictment accusing DocX  of forgery. DocX, a now-closed unit of Lender Processing Services of Jacksonville, Florida, was one of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders across the…

Banks lose crucial Massachusetts foreclosure case

The state Supreme Judicial Court yesterday upheld a judge’s decision saying two foreclosures were invalid because the banks didn’t prove they owned the mortgages, which he said were transferred into two mortgage-backed trusts without the recipients’ being named. Weaselly spokespersons…