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NOVEMBER 2013
Sigtarp Investigations Team Recognized For Excellence This is the third straight year SIGTARP investigators have been recognized for their superior work in rooting out fraud to protect taxpayers TARP investments , said Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for TARP (SIGTARP) . This recognition highlights SIGTARPs commitment to exposing fraud related to TARP undertaken at the expense of the American public .

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S. 1187: Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act Mortgage Foregiveness Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence.

Judge Rakoff Blasts Breuer, Prosecution of Companies Rather than Individuals in Bar Speech Absent sitting on the Supreme Court, it is difficult for a single judge to effect much change. Yet Jed Rakoff, in sending the SEC back to the wood.

Democrats Criticize Regulator Over Delayed Foreclosure-Review Report Democratic lawmakers are still frustrated by a lack of information on the nearly 11-month-old multibillion-dollar settlement U.S. regulators announced to end a troubled review of foreclosure abuses.

Federal regulator lays down the law for consulting firms Consultants are supposed to work at the behest of regulators to provide objective assessments of an institutions problems. But lawmakers have raised doubts about the independence of consultants handpicked by financial firms accused of wrong.

Banks Keep Breaking Into Houses, And Homeowners Are Fighting Back Every day in neighborhoods across the country, low-paid workers with little oversight or training decide whether to break into someone else's home. They are independent contractors working indirectly for banks.

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The mortgage foreclosure crisis raises legal questions as important as its economic impact. Questions that were straightforward and uncontroversial a generation ago today threaten the stability of a $13 trillion mortgage market:

South Carolina Court Dismisses Foreclosure Based Upon U.S. Supreme Court Decision Bill Sloan, Esq., in the 9th Judicial Circuit of Common Pleas in Charleston, South Carolina successfully turned the head of at least one judge, citing the United States Supreme Court case of Carpenter v Longen, 83 U.S. 271, 16 Wall. 271, 21 L. ed. 313 (1872). I might add that in the BP litigation, the Circuit Court of Appeals just issued a ruling on the same topic and said Absent a loss , a claimant has suffered no injury.

Homeowner/Foreclosure Q&A:
I need an attorney for a Quiet Title Action. Foreclosure case Dismissed!>>>> Is 12/31/2013 considered deadline to file Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative (HAFA) application?>>>> In a foreclosure suit, what is the effect of the Plaintiff (the bank/servicer) selling the alleged Note before trial?>>>>

A Look Back, Homeowners Vs. Banks 2013

Foreclosure Contractor, Allegedly Clears Out Wrong Family's Barn>>>> Oregon Woman Wins 3-Year Fight Against Wells Fargo Foreclosure>>>> Seattle homeowners facing foreclosure lash out at Council>>>> Homeowners vs. Big Bad Banks>>>>