The upcoming election will be important for us all, but for those of us in the foreclosure fight, the most important race to watch will be for Florida’s Attorney General. The Attorney General of Florida is this state’s top law enforcement officer. The office is currently investigating a whole range of improper and probably illegal conduct that is being conducted on a wide ranging basis by the foreclosure mills. These investigations will continue regardless of who wins the race for attorney general, but how hard these investigations are pressed can be influenced by YOU!
The abusive conduct that is being engaged in by a whole host of players is being ignored by judges, the Florida Bar and just about anyone else in a position of power who could be standing up to fight for Floridians, but at least Florida’s Attorney General is showing some concern about this incredible abuse of the legal system. After last week’s primary races, there are two candidates for Attorney General and one of these candidates will be elected come November. The two candidates are:
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I want each of you to visit the websites above and carefully review each candidate’s profile and position statements. In reviewing the websites, I am most encouraged by Gelber’s attention to the mortgage crisis because it at least shows this is on his radar screen.
Here is what I want all of you to do…..write to each of the candidates and express your concern about the foreclosure process. Tell your personal stories and ask the candidate to express strong positions on the abuses of the foreclosure mills. We need to get them locked into positions now so that they cannot be influenced by the foreclosure mills and their cash later down the road.
JOIN EACH ONE OF THE CANDIDATE’S FACEBOOK PAGES AND AGGRESSIVELY REACH OUT TO THEM. IF YOU HAVE CASH TO SPARE, PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAMPAIGN.
SPEND A FEW MOMENTS OUT OF YOUR TIME TO GET ON THE RADAR SCREEN OF THESE CANDIDATES.
GETTING INVOLVED IN THESE RACES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO TO INFLUENCE THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE POINT TO THIS THIS WEBSITE AS GENERATING INTEREST IN THIS CAMPAIGN AND BE PREPARED TO GET AGGRESSIVELY INVOLVED!
I predict the 49 other state Attorney Generals sending investigators and attorneys to Florida’s Ft. Lauderdale branch of the Florida Attorney General’s office as they open up their own investigations.
No matter what your political affiliation, the Florida Attorney General’s office is leading the country in the investigation of a crime with an unfathomable reach and scope.
In addition to impacting the upcoming election, make your local news media aware of the hard core cutting edge investigation that will go down in history.
The word on the street is that examples and evidence of fabricated documents continues to be welcomed by the investigators. Call 954-712-4600 and leave a message if you have documents of interest. Be patient but keep calling until you’ve had a chance to be heard
Lisa
ForeclosureHamlet.org
It may be a good idea to craft a set of questions for media to ask when interviewing them. I find that the media is a force mutiplyer.
If you can help them seem educated on the issues by supplying them with sets of thoughtful questions to ask, the on the record and on camera answers can shape their identity and political direction.
A short backround on only one or two points, with the question, and a followup is good. Don’t swamp media and make it short so they can carry it in their hand without looking like they are going to court.
Chunk the diffrent questions up and hand them out to diffrent reporters. You want all the reporters asking one good question with one at least good followup.
Sound bites and News bites are very short. Think 1/2 page of a double spaced depo, one question and answer, followup if you are lucky. So give a couple of paragraphs of backround, then the question and a couple of followups based on the two most possible, or probable responses.
i.e.
“Is your agency looking into the reported wide spread use of fraudulent documents in foreclosure cases?”
“Could you comment on the Florida Attorney generals announcement of subpoenas to the some of the largest foreclosure mills?”
“Could you give us an idea of the scope of the problem, does it involve multiple cases and millions of dolllars of real estate ?”
“Are criminal charges for document fraud being considered?”
“Are the law firms under investigation fling cases in this county?”
“Does this have anything to do with he rocket dockets recently introduced in this county?”
“We have heard that foreclosure courts have been streamlined in some counties that the cases are set only 5 minutes apart, giving home owners less than 2 minutes to argue their case. Is this normal and is it just?”
“When it is found that some companies filed fraudulent documents in the public records, are you going to charge them with the statuary penalty of third degree felony for each and evey fraudulent document?”
Right now it may be good for them to look and sound tough on white collar crime. Out of state banks and out of state predatory lenders are not not liked much.
Given the chance to talk on camera we need the interviewers asking them the questions on just how tough they will be. Not just the people running for AG, but the people running for judge, the people running for office at all levels.
This is a “Tough on Crime” issue where each person running for office can stand behind a lectern and preach fire and brimstone against these heathen foreign nameless numbered trusts that are perverting the integrity of out States public records.
These foreign corporations that come to Florida and perjure them selves in our courts. They cost tax payers millions of dollars by filing fraudulent pleadings and un-necessary lost note counts. They are gumming up our courts.
They are ruining our neighborhoods by failing to keep up the homes when they take possession, then ruining our property values by having rushed sales without fixing them up before bringing them to market.
The republicans can’t run on their economic or environmental track record, the democrats have been thwarted on most of the changes they want to make, and their are no real communists around to rail against. The Muslims are a touchy subject, but no one likes the predatory sub prime lenders and crooked attorneys.
Let us make it a competition to see which one makes the most noise and promises to be toughest on foreclosure fraud.