Yet another problem has begun surfacing in the documents banks have been using to foreclose on homes: false notarizations. Notaries have been attesting legally to signatures they didn’t witness, sometimes by people who didn’t a…
On Oct. 20, New York courts ordered attorneys for foreclosing banks to swear they’d personally confirmed that their documents are true and accurate. But a Brooklyn judge has taken things a step further. Since the banks aren’t c…
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin Glenn denied Wells Fargo’s request for permission to foreclose on Tandala Mims’s house in the Bronx for a second time on Thursday because he still wasn’t satisfied that Wells — as opposed to…
Most people raising the issue of false mortgage documents are homeowners facing foreclosure. And banks often respond that botched paperwork is a mere technicality — nothing to worry about. Then you find a case like Wells Fargo…
Sworn testimony in a recently concluded mortgage case may spell big trouble for Bank of America. If what one bank employee said proves to be accurate, paperwork problems at mortgage provider Countrywide could leave Bank of Amer…