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We should all be aware that Attorney Generals from across the country are under tremendous pressure to cave into the banksters and sign off on a secret deal/bribe/extortion.  How do we know that this is a secret deal/bribe/extortion occurring from the White House all the way down to the states?

Well, you can click on the story below and read Nevada’s Attorney General and her detailed list of questions that have been sent to the feds.  Yeah, apparently Nevada Attorney General Catherine Masto kinda takes her job of standing up to protect the citizens of her state seriously…she’s said she ain’t signing off on any secret deals until she has some teensy weensy idea what the terms of that deal are.

Now other state Attorney Generals ain’t so concerned about such things….nope, and they ain’t worried about details….

JUST SIGN THE DAMN DEAL AREADY!

This really is a crazy, crazy world out there folks, but you really, really need to read ABIGAIL FIELD’S article and especially read Nevada Attorney General Catherine Masto’s detailed letter…..

I have had an extraordinary number of my foreclosure cases dismissed in the last year.  The number is frankly staggering.  The foreclosure mills started dismissing or dropping them in January 2011 and they just keep on dismissing them right up until today.  This fact is a recognition of what I’ve been saying all along that their cases are so fatally flawed that dismissal is the only responsible and legally appropriate thing for the to do.

The foreclosure files currently pending in courtrooms all across this state are a mess of improper legal pleadings and sometimes fraudulent and misrepresented facts.  The more the banksters try to cover up and avoid their lies and the problems they’ve caused themselves the worse things get.  And so the only way out, the only responsible, ethical, proper thing to do is dismiss the cases.  Most are doing this, but increasingly some cases are going to trial.  Now I recently wrote that there are very few appellate decisions in foreclosure that come from trial and I wondered why this was  the case. I recognize now a big part of the reason…..

A “win” for a defendant in a foreclosure trial is not a “win” at all.

That’s right, in yet another example of the absolute unfairness and proof that there are two sets of laws, one for those with money and power and one for all the rest of us, I have discovered that even if we have a trial in a foreclosure case and even if we “win” that foreclosure case, all the Plaintiff has to do is turn around and refile the case the very next day.  It’s just maddening and entirely mind boggling and totally frustrating.  We can work for months to prove up the banksters and their fraud and the lies and the incompetence and the crimes and all they’ve got to do is shrug their shoulders, dust themselves off and start all over again.  I’m afraid  part of this analysis will come into play in the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in the pending Pino case.

But back to the “FREE HOUSE” analysis here on the ground.  Recently a transcript of a foreclosure trial hit the blogosphere. (You really must read it here.) No matter what the problems on the bank side, no matter how many errors or flaws or questionable documents or facts, the court just could not fathom finding for the Defendant in the case because the court absolutely could not stomach giving the defendant a ‘FREE HOUSE”.

Well, I have to wonder, how would that judge’s analysis have changed if the defense attorney had merely explained to the judge that there is no free house, that there is no windfall for the consumer, that the banks can get away with whatever they want and then just turn around and call ‘DO OVER’ whenever they want?  I should think this would make the judge a whole lot less concerned about issuing a verdict for the defense….after all, there is no real “harm”….harm in the sense that the banks will suffer no real consequence for their improper actions.

This understanding must make it’s way all across this state’s court system.  We must all understand that the only way to get chopping through this heavy thicket of a quagmire of a mess of a garbage dump that is most of the pending foreclosures is to chop through all the garbage, throw all the cases into the wood chipper and do them over, correctly.

Read the attached case carefully and think about the larger implications…..I see this as the ultimate response to the “FREE HOUSE” argument, and a very powerful tool for our judges.  As much as I hate the opinion and think that it is very wrong, it allows our judges the freedom to execute good judicial discretion without the ‘NUCLEAR’ option of the dreaded, ‘FREE HOUSE’!

Now, the problem with the opinion is it tosses key legal principles of Res Judicata and Double Jeopardy completely out the window, but hey, we’re all well aware that there are a second set of rules for the banks anyway…..right?

Singleton+v.+Greymar+Associates,+882+So

Mark Stopa is a great attorney and I appreciate his guidance on appellate matters.  It just so happens that we have two different appeals pending against the banksters who just cannot stand the fact that the Florida Supreme Court wants them to play by the rules, investigate the lawsuits they are filing and treat the court system with some basic respect.

It just so happens that in this area of the state, on the west coast of Florida where I am most familiar, the trial court judges treat these foreclosure cases like every other case, forcing both sides to go through their paces, fight for every single point and issue….AND FOLLOW THE RULES!

Well, the banksters don’t like the rules so they continue to fight, every single step of the way.

I love the way Mark takes their appeal and shoves it right back in their face…in his particular case, the banksters taunted the judge then threw the appeal right back at them…..make sure to read his Answer Brief……

MARK STOPA ON VERIFICATION

In or about 2008, Congress wanted more information about the massive bank bailout that our tax dollars were paying for.  Several senators and congressman wanted a wee bit more information than just giving Hank Paulson a blank check with no strings attached…..Geithener and Paulson told members of Congress….this is all above your heads…you won’t get it…

And there was a far more terrifying threat….

If you don’t write the banksters a blank check with no strings attached…there will be martial law.

And so CONgress wrote a blank check, which it turns out was a whole lot bigger than they thought it was at first….meanwhile, CONgress…and by extension all of us were getting utterly conned by the Banksters to the tune of trillions of dollars:

While Timothy Geithner was head of the NY Federal Reserve, he argued against legislative efforts by Senator Ted Kaufman, D-Delaware, to limit the size of banks because the issue was “too complex for Congress and that people who know the markets should handle these decisions,” Kaufman recalls. Meanwhile, Geithner was fully aware of the enormous secret loans while Senator Kaufman was kept in the dark. Barney Frank, who was authoring key bank reform legislation was also not informed of the secret loans. No one in Congress was told. 6 Shocking Revelations About The Bailouts

This is also a time to go back and review all of the maneuvering surrounding the massive, closed door, secret bailouts.  It seems that Congress was threatened with Martial Law if the blank check bailouts did not get passed through:

Speaking on Tulsa Oklahoma’s 1170 KFAQ, when asked who was behind threats of martial law and civil unrest if the bailout bill failed, Senator James Inhofe named Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as the source.

“Somebody in D.C. was feeding you guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn’t do this we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest….who was feeding you guys this stuff?,” asked host Pat Campbell.

“That’s Henry Paulson,” responded Inhofe, “We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think – a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would have been the middle … what was it – the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this conference call – and I guess there’s no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said – he painted this picture you just described. He said, ‘This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced.’”

Why, I want to know, are there not more serious calls for charges of treason or high crimes against the architects of these bailouts?

PRISON PLANET

NEW YORK- More than a year and a half after America’s major banks failed, all but sinking the country’s economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.

Since America’s three largest banks collapsed in late 2008, their former executives and owners have largely been living untroubled lives.

But the publication last month of a Congressional inquiry into the island nation’s profound financial and economic crisis signaled a turning of the tide, laying much of the blame for the downfall on the former bank heads who had taken “inappropriate loans from the banks” they worked for.

The only problem with this story is this did not happen in the United States of America…but I did copy the text of the story directly about how Iceland was dealing with its banksters….(IcelandBanksters)

And This:

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation.

Special Prosecutor, Olafur Thor Hauksson told Visir.is that house searches are taking place in at least three places today as part of investigations into the central bank, MP Bank and Straumur Bank.

I have long been calling the United States of America a White Collar Criminal Oligarchy. I’ve been using that term for a long time now and every single day the term becomes more and more appropriate.

Like many of you I see the manifestation of a country that is under the absolute and Iron Fist control of the 1% who are really in control of this country.  You can forget your delusions of how you thought this country is governed and controlled.  If you still harbor any delusions about The Three Branches, The Power of The Vote and the illusion that The Machine called our government exists to serve anything other than the entrenched corporate interests?  Change the channel cause we’re not speaking the same language.

This isn’t just my opinion….it’s a disturbing fact confirmed by research……

And one other thing….I, like many Americans, are increasingly frustrated that those at the top of the pyramid escape any punishment for all their crimes.

Law enforcement, elected and appointed officials all have turned their back on enforcing laws…allowing the banking elite to continue to get away with their crimes.  But a friend shared something with me the other day.  Perhaps it gets to the heart of why there is such willful ignoring of a widespread, national crime spree:

18 U.S.C. §4

MISPRISION OF FELONY

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Perhaps 18 U.S.C. §4 explains why so many State AGs, the White House, Treasury and General Holder are loath to properly investigate the Banksters…..

Winters and Page Oligarchy in The US