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Shapiro & Fishman and JP Morgan, Judge Says, "committed fraud on this Court"

I've been meaning to do a post on the rampant fraud in the foreclosure industry.  Lawyers, on behalf of their bank clients, are lying about the ownership of a home.  Often banks do not hold the mortgages to your homes.   Nevertheless, banks and law firms know they can exploit the legal system.  If you're a homeowner who has been sued by an unscrupulous banker or law firm, you can't possibly know whether you're being wrongfully sued.  Lawyers use your unsophistication to steal your homes.   They also used to lie to judges.  More judges are realizing that banks cannot, in many cases, prove that their own your own.  "Produce the Note." Here is what one judge said in a written order about one Florida law firm: the Court finds by clear and convincing evidence that WAMU, Chase and Shapiro & Fishman committed fraud on this Court [and that these] acts committed by WAMU, Chase and Shapiro amount to a knowing deception intended to prevent the defendants from discovery essential to defending the claim and are therefore fraud...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).