MERS/MBS/Foreclosure Goes RICO
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Posted 2010-10-03 23:10
by Karl Denninger
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MERS/MBS/Foreclosure Goes RICO
 

It's about damned time.

This is worth a read, even though it's VERY long.  The bottom line is that all the Tickers I've written on this subject, from bad conveyances into REMICs, to the tax issues, to the fraudulent documents, to the fact that the MBS are "empty boxes", up and down the line - it's all in here.

Anyone who thinks this is a "nothingburger" after reading this has rocks in their head.

This is a rather lengthy filing, 124 pages worth.  It asserts virtually everything that I've written about for the last three years related to REMICs and MBS (that the notes were not conveyed and now can't be under the law), and alleges Racketeering.

I've read the whole thing, and want to present just a few short cites, but am embedding the entire document as well for those who "want it all".

REMICS were newly invented in 1987 as a tax avoidance measure by Investment Banks. To file as a REMIC, and in order to avoid one hundred percent (100%) taxation by the IRS and the Kentucky Revenue Cabinet, an MBS REMIC could not engage in any prohibited action. The "Trustee" can not own the assets of the REMIC. A REMIC Trustee could never claim it owned a mortgage loan. Hence, it can never be the owner of a mortgage loan.

57. Additionally, and important to the issues presented with this particular action, is the fact that in order to keep its tax status and to fund the "Trust" and legally collect money from investors, who bought into the REMIC, the "Trustee" or the more properly named, Custodian of the REMIC, had to have possession of ALL the original blue ink Promissory Notes and original allonges and assignments of the Notes, showing a complete paper chain of title.

58. Most importantly for this action, the "Trustee"/Custodian MUST have the mortgages recorded in the investors name as the beneficiaries of a MBS in the year the MBS "closed." Every mortgage in the MBS should have been publicly recorded in the Kentucky County where the property was located with a mortgage in the name similar to "2006 ABC REMIC Trust on behalf of the beneficiaries of the 2006 ABC REMIC Trust." The mortgages in the referenced example would all have had to been publicly recorded in the year 2006.

59. As previously pointed out, the ˇ°Trustsˇ± were never set up or registered as Trusts. The Promissory Notes were never obtained and the mortgages never obtained or recorded.

60. The "Trust" engaged in a plethora of "prohibited activities" and sold the investors certificates and Bonds with phantom mortgage backed assets. There are now nationwide, numerous Class actions filed by the beneficiaries (the owners/investors) of the "Trusts" against the entities who sold the investments as REMICS based on a bogus prospectus.

61. In the above scenario, even if the attorney for the servicer who is foreclosing on behalf of the Trustee (who is in turn acting for the securitized trust) produces a copy of a note, or even an alleged original, the mortgage loan was not conveyed into the trust under the requirements of the prospectus for the trust or the REMIC requirements of the IRS.

62. As applied to the Class Members in this action, the end result would be that the required MBS asset, or any part thereof (mortgage note or security interest), would not have been legally transferred to the trust to allow the trust to ever even be considered a "holder" of a mortgage loan. Neither the "Trust" or the Servicer would ever be entitled to bring a foreclosure or declaratory action. The Trust will never have standing or be a real party in interest. They will never be the proper party to appear before the Court.

63. The transfer of mortgage loans into the trust after the "cut off date" (in the example 2006), destroys the trust's REMIC tax exempt status, and these "Trusts" (and potentially the financial entities who created them) would owe millions of dollars to the IRS and the Kentucky Revenue Cabinet as the income would be taxed at of one hundred percent (100%).

Yep.  And this is just the first key into the circle of Hell where these folks are headed. 

See, without standing they can't foreclose, but then we get back to "who can?"  And what we find is that the originator was paid, and thus they can't either.  Worse, for those originators that are bankrupt, their "assets", such as they are, can't go anywhere without a bankruptcy trustee's signature, and further, even if someone was to acquire that, which nobody has, THE REMICs CAN'T TAKE THE PAPER ANYWAY AS THEIR CLOSING DATE HAS EXPIRED. 

So we have a bankrupt originator who was paid in full and can't foreclose, and we have a note that can't be transferred into the REMIC without destroying its tax preference (retroactively, incidentally), which instantaneously trashes the value of the MBS - probably by more than they could hope to recover if they were going to take the note anyway. 

In all cases, the lack of acquisition of the Class Members' mortgage loans violates the prospectus presented to the investors and the IRS REMIC requirements.

If an MBS Trust was audited by the IRS and was found to have violated any of the REMIC requirements, it would lose its REMIC status and all back taxes would be due and owing to the IRS as well as the state of Kentucky. As previously stated, one hundred percent (100%) of the income will be taxed.

As the Class Members are identified and the identity of the MBS REMICs revealed through this action, the individual "Trusts"/ MBS REMICs will be turned over to the IRS for auditing.

Yep.  Welcome to the second circle of Hell.  Incidentally, I think both the Federal and State governments have a revenue problem, right?  This ought to help that situation materially.

While attempting to circumvent Kentucky recording Statutes, the MBS Trust created for itself a situation wherein it had no legally recognizable interest in the loans for the benefit of the investors. The investors were invested in nothing. The MBS possessed nothing on the date the REMIC closed and perpetrated a fraud on the investors and the American taxpayer through its fraudulent qualification as a REMIC with the SEC.Or is that

 

smiley

or is that

smiley

No legal plan was ever in place to deal with the fact that the original Prospectus to the shareholder/investors was a myth.

No kidding.

MBS/Trustees and their lawyers discovered in the foreclosure process that the Note and Mortgage Assignments would never be located because they never existed. They also discovered that states did not allow blank Assignments or Assignments with retroactive effective dates. To solve the problem of the missing and non-existent Assignments, the MBS/Trustees, their attorneys and their Servicing Agents, decided to fabricate Assignments from thin air and then quietly record the fabricated Assignments.

smiley

Oh, let's see, a year ago I was writing about this..... the fact that there were an awful lot of assignments and endorsements "in blank" which is not legal in a large number of states with regard to trusts, and that in addition back-dating assignments can't be done either.

It's never the original issue that really gets you - it's your attempt to cover it up!

The Assignments of the Mortgage were signed and notarized many years after the actual date of the loan and the date listed with the SEC and IRS as the “Closing” of the REMIC. In every one of these cases, the MBS Trust has been operating illegally as a tax exempt REMIC. The federal government is in turn, owed billions of dollars in income tax from these entities. The individual states of the union has causes of action on behalf of their citizens for the unpaid state tax.

Yep.  And the really bad news is that as soon as these things happened the loss of tax exemption is not only immediate, it's irrevocable. 

As previously set out, often the MERS held the Mortgage as “nominee” for a lender who was out of business and/or liquidated in bankruptcy. There could be no party legally able to Assign the Mortgage on behalf of the dissolved lender. The only party who could authorize the Mortgage Assignment for a bankrupt lender would be the Bankruptcy Trustee. In these cases where a MERS mortgage has been assigned on behalf of a bankrupt entity, a criminal violation of the bankruptcy code had occurred.

Yep again.  A bankrupt entity cannot take actions without the approval of the trustee.  If someone is "assigning" things without that written approval you got big trouble - bankruptcy fraud is serious business. 

 

Class Action vs Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Gmac, Deutsche Bank, Nation Star, Aurora, Bac, Ci...

Enjoy folks...... this little issue isn't going away and there's plenty more in this filing.... and if you're a holder of MBS (a pension fund, perhaps, or a pensioner who thinks they're going to get paid their pension?) contemplating that you very well may have an "empty box" that has no value, and no way to cure the problem, certainly ought to keep you up at night.
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Bankster: "Aw ****, now I have to go and bribe the IRS too?"

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Good God, what a ****ing mess...

Hey! All you unemployed, debt ridden law grads take note.

There is a fortune to be made here.

The fraud and larceny leveled is in the trillions of dollars!

My only wish is that you labor for the common good.

The best argument is the one founded on truth, honesty, and facts.

Start with the facts. Present the honesty. Prove the truth.

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In addition to the 90-day closing, the REMICs can't take a dud loan either.

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Everyone keeps looking at the system and saying "it's not working, it needs to be redesigned somehow." It's working exactly the way the people who own it intend it to work.-Sutluc
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Yep.

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What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Holy ****.

Times two.

Surreal - the whole thing a scam from the beginning!?? Even in my wildest dreams...




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Yep.

Been saying it now for three years.

Told 'ya I was right. Now whether this lawyer can shove this up the bank's ass is an open question, but there you have it.

Incidentally I don't know this attorney from jack, so this isn't "my work" in any way or form. It's damn nice to see someone actually dig it up though - all the predicates (the REMIC restrictions, etc) are not news, and not exactly hard to figure out - and once you do the rest just kinda falls into place.

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What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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You should send him links to all of your tickers on the subject. Just in case he might need some backup. :)
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OMFG.

This is going way faster than i thought. No wonder Blankfiend is out running his mouth about leaving the US
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No wonders the lawyers and notaries are partying.

Their boat is about to dock!

During the depression, evictions were made illegal.
Wait for it, history is about to repeat itself.

I put the following info in the previous thread. Maybe it should be here.

Since there is an interest in following the paper trail, you might be able to make some sense of this info from FDIC.



http://www.fdic.gov/buying/historical/st....

I followed the links to documents and financial info but I lack the background info to evaluate what is being said or what is OMITTED.
I hope this will help.
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Yea, Lloyd needs to vacate and become an expatriate asap.

(FYI, there was a wee bit of prose in that sentence..)

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Following this crap, I've often thought where is the IRS? This crap just keeps getting swept away or even dismissed. Many must have been thinking, how can these banksters be busted at the knees, as they should be. Big bad, well known gangster Al Capone was finally brought down by... TAX EVASION! So we'll ask again, where the hell is the IRS?
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In a perfect world the gods would dispense justice, the RICO suit against the Wall Street pigs and all associates would prevail, the IRS would take title to the properties under RICO, and then in turn go after the damned freeloaders that want free houses, making all payments including those for the time they lived for free non dischargeable in bankruptcy

Then we would see justice for the honest people that did not milk equity from their houses to spend on fancy **** and crack. smiley
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How long does it take for somebody to build a case like this? They must've been working on this for a while...

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These tickers are starting to become nuggets. Incredible work.



So what now? We see the mess, but what is the proper course? I admit to not understanding the remifications. This seems serious and not in a good sort of way. Who gets a haricut?


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Holy crap... it could be the trumpets are sounding at Jericho...


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Nothingburger.

The document is the Plaintiff's complaint which is supposed to come up with everything under the sun and state their version of the truth and law.

This is a document that should be looked at with the understanding that it isn't exactly a neutral breakdown of the case. That being said it will be interesting to read the response.


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No clear title. What do you do with those properties? Who gets them? When title is so clouded that no one knows who owns what, how is it decided and who decides?

Most people would say, just turn over title to the homeowner, free and clear. Great, but people who have homes where title is NOT clouded are going to be up in arms because it will drive their property values in to the ground (in other words, back to sane values). I'm ok with this solution even it will be unfair to some.

The politicians will want to step in and get their cut. I'm sure Dems and Republicans both will be falling all over each other to get these properties assigned to the government (probably Federal). They will take title and find a way to get the homeowners in to some other kind of loan program. It will cause an artificial credit expansion of course and all sort of other problems down the road but politicians really don't care about that.

The other option is that the government will simply declare that title belongs to whomever they homeowner has been paying the mortgage. That would probably be the crappiest option because it would reward all the fraud and sweep it under the rug.

Americans have been given a raw deal when it comes to banking so even if it's UNFAIR to some, I say, screw it! If title is clouded, give it to the homeowner.

The question becomes though.. how far back do you go with this on foreclosures? What's the statute of limitations? What if a particular property has been improperly foreclosed on more than once? Does it revert back to the original owner?

It's a mess and I have a bad feeling deep down inside that it will NOT end up in favor of the American homeowner.
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Heh, everything's a nothingburger to you, Pyr.

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No clear title. What do you do with those properties? Who gets them? When title is so clouded that no one knows who owns what, how is it decided and who decides?

Those have to be the questions of the decade, if not the century.

Didn't the Fed buy up most of the MBS's ? If they did then they could legally force the banks to take them back, but that would certainly wipe out a lot of large banks.. or the Fed could eat the losses, and being a private entity it could not force these losses on taxpayers, although I think it would just extinguish those excess bank reserves from the Fed balance sheet.

Who has the right to foreclose is the other question of moment. That'll be a doosey when the court hands that one down. Could be in many cases that nobody does, and current dweller takes ownership by adverse possession. Some of these notes will pop up over time I bet, and I bet they could still unwind those MBS's and reassign mortgages back to individual lenders holding the notes. That kind of unwind would probably crash those level3 assets though, and banks would be forced into bankruptcy (or nationalized).

So much fun.. may you live in interesting times.

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RICO = tripple damages

Hmmmmmmmmmmm all that tax that may be due Califorrnia? Could help solve the crisis maybe why the budget just passed they just discovered all this new revenue lol.

"Second circle of hell" he he I think the 8th circle applies..

Eighth Circle (Fraud)
The last two circles of Hell punish sins that involve conscious fraud or treachery. These circles can be reached only by descending a vast cliff, which Dante and Virgil do on the back of Geryon, a winged monster traditionally represented as having three heads or three conjoined bodies,[33] but described by Dante as having three mixed natures: human, bestial, and reptile.[33] Geryon is an image of fraud, with his face appearing to be that of an honest man, and his body beautifully coloured, but with a poisonous sting in his tail[34] (Canto XVII).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Da....

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Karl,

This is not the first time we come across legal theft.

eventually there will be some government action or backstop or even a new law that would fix the situation (fix as in = make what ever the banks do legal) and that would be it.

What we need is not just "triple damage" but to confiscate the property that was accumulated via "legalized theft" and all that has profited from action of the thieves. All proceeds will go to pay down the national debt.

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Yaldor said: What we need is not just "triple damage" but to confiscate the property that was accumulated via "legalized theft" and all that has profited from action of the thieves. All proceeds will go to pay down the national debt.


Seriously? The banks don't have any money to pay it!

Furthermore, the legalized theft was all done with help from the government who is supposed to enforce the laws.

And even if there were proceeds, it would go to the general fund, not paying down debt. There are very few politicians that wouldn't be drooling over that money to get it back to their home district.
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Is there a pecking order of who gets the money first? Is it who files a claim first or does state and federal tax due supersede a legal claim? Think of all the jobs OBAMA can create with this new found money!

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Cant wait to hear what Bill Gross spews next.
It will take on hell of a distraction to keep this one down.
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