Posts Tagged ‘mortgage mediation’
HOT OFF!!!- THE PRESS PICKS UP ON THE FLAWED FORECLOSURE PROCESS
Author: Matthew D. Weidner, Esq.
The press continues to serve their vital function of reporting on the flawed foreclosure process that has infected our courthouses.
We all need to do our jobs and continue to fight these abuses, continue to educate our elected and senior judges and work with the press to make sure the tragic story that is foreclosure is reported across this country. As attorneys we have a solemn ethical obligation to continue this fight. Likewise, the unrepresented and pro se patriots have an important role to stand in courtrooms and remind our judges that normal, everyday non-lawyer citizens have just as much right to stand in courtrooms and make arguments.
Our courtrooms are consecrated by the Constitution, we cannot allow these attacks to go unchecked.
In most media markets we have gotten beyond debates over homeowner’s inability to pay mortgages or lender’s unwillingness to modify the mortgage or to even properly staff phone banks so they can talk with their borrowers. Sophisticated media and now the public at large are examining the flawed legal processes that have infected our courtrooms statewide. The judgments entered and the foreclosure sales that occur during this period will long stand as testaments to the systemic failures of our judicial system that is bending to the howling cacophony of the legislature that is demanding that our courts do the bidding of corrupt businesses that brought this country to the brink of economic Armageddon.
I have faith that our judges will eventually stand up and oppose this systemic tyranny.
Until that time, we’ve got to rely upon the press to issue the clarion call!
BREAKING AND ENTERING IS NOT A CRIME!
Author: Matthew D. Weidner, Esq.
Not so long ago in this country breaking into another person’s home would clearly have been a crime.
When law enforcement cared. When those we elected to protect us cared. When Judges cared.
But that was long ago. Before the banks, foreclosure mills and Wall Street criminals took over this country and trampled on the rights of any soul who dared cross them or get in their way. Today we live in a much different world. The banks and their agents are emboldened. They fear no government official. They fear no judge. They are restrained by no law.
I have begun collecting terrifying examples of bank terror and will continue to publish the examples. For starters, I want each of you to read the lawsuit I’ve just filed. Read carefully the allegations made in the lawsuit, but most importantly read the report from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Department. Read the findings of fact. Two thugs broke into a home, moved property around, helped themselves to a beer. The thugs returned and boldly told their victims they would return to terrorize again. Two visitors to our country were terrified. Thousands of dollars in property was stolen. But the Sheriff’s office can seem to find a crime here.
The thing that terrifies me most about the incidents described in this lawsuit is the fact that I have logged dozens of phone calls to various levels of authority within the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. I have spoken with street officers, detectives, supervisors, even internal affairs. My calls have been ignored. I’m not sure if I’ve gotten high enough up the chain of command, but I’m going to keep working, keep calling and keep filing lawsuits until this issue gets the attention that it deserves.
Pay attention to the facts in this case and be appalled, but sit tight and stay tuned because as bad as the facts in this case are, I’ve got worse cases and am preparing to file additional cases with even more grotesque facts. If law enforcement, particularly our elected Sheriff will no longer protect us in our homes, who can we count on to protect our families? When one of these lender break ins results in physical harm either in Charlotte County or in some other county across this country, law enforcement cannot stand by and say they were unaware of this phenomena.
Please share your examples with me. We cannot stand by and allow these fundamental violations of rights to occur. I hope that press picks up on these stories and that our elected officials and judges will wake up serve those they took an oath to protect.
More Media Coverage of The Fraud and Failings of the Foreclosure Process
Author: Matthew D. Weidner, Esq.
The founding fathers of this once great county realized long ago that free and unrestrained press and media were a key component to the welfare of this nation. In every great crisis that this country has faced, newspapers and other news outlets have served a vital function in alerting the general public to serious threats to this country. The Tampa-bay media outlets have done an excellent job of covering the serious problems that exist in this foreclosure crisis and now national media outlets are starting to follow their lead and cover these problems.
The chief judges in the Sixth Judicial Circuit which is Pinellas and Pasco County, and the Twelfth Judicial Circuit which is Sarasota and Manatee County are working hard to ensure that abuses of the court process do not go unchecked. It is no coincidence at all that the media markets with the best reporters in the state, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, have court systems that are taking the lead statewide in exposing the serious deficiencies in the foreclosure courtrooms.
In sophisticated media markets, the foreclosure debate has shifted from a knee jerk reaction that this is about borrowers who want to avoid their responsibilities to a more thoughtful consideration of the serious fault lines this crisis exposes and the long term consequences this disaster is having on our nation.
Please read this morning’s Sarasota Tribune for the latest example of this important phenomena and here for South Florida Business Review. Kudos once again to Ice Legal and Ralph Fisher for the most excellent work they are doing to protect us all!
