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Millions of homeowners who have been scammed by banking, political and judicial interests, believed your message of change and voted for you. Many are now reporting that no one in your government is responding to housing fraud complaints. With so many millions burdened with foreclosures, subject to illegal mortgage contracts and judgments especially in California, it is time for you, Mr. President to give some attention to the plight to the millions who have been scammed. Here is a letter we sent to the European Union Parliament. Please investigate America's housing fraud.
On June 1, 2010, you are meeting with Eric Holder, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice. As it was the fraud with sub-prime mortgages that caused the devastating financial crisis around the world over the past 2 years, we believe it is important that you engage in substantive discussions with Mr. Holder about taking action to ensure that this does not happen again. We at the American Homeowners Resource Center have been studying and reporting on the U.S. housing market for more than 20 years. We have seen first hand how the foundations for this marketing fraud were laid and thrust on the world.
A long time ago, Wall Street's primary function was to effect the efficient distribution of capital to help facilitate business and by continuation, improve the greater society as a whole. And while there has always been a certain amount of corruption and outright crime on Wall Street, what has happened over the last few years has transmogrified it into something that is beyond recognition. .....It has become nothing more than a big casino, and just like a casino, you cannot win. While the prostrate, sniveling, worshipers of the Wall Street gods, marvel at their supposed genius, the fact is that they have no more idea of what's going to happen then you do. ... Take a look a Detroit or Cleveland, or drive through almost any rural area in the country, and see what this perversion of free enterprise really produces. And then, decide. Are you going to continue to vote against the economic interests of the average citizen by supporting the current Republican or Democratic political "whore du jour"? Or, are you going to take a more enlightened path, as demonstrated by the SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES that exist in Europe, and vote for someone who shares a vision for America that isn't based on avarice and greed.
No country, no time, no place, has been free from the vulture. But each age has had its dominant vultures - a Genghis Khan, a Roman emperor, a Napoleon, a British empire. In the last two hundred years, America has been saturated with vultures - first domestically, then internationally.......Is everything doom and gloom? Only if we let it be so. For a long time in this country, women did not have the right to vote. They fought for it and eventually won. For a longer time in this country, African-Americans were not even persons. They fought for it and eventually won. Homeowners in homeowner associations are still fighting for their rights. They have not won yet, but like other groups, if they keep fighting, they will win.
Once a dapper Beverly Hills attorney known for his bow tie, Richard Fine has been held in solitary confinement at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 14 months, even though he's never been charged with a crime. ...Fine took his pencil-and-paper fight from solitary confinement to the U.S Supreme Court, which ruled Monday it would not hear the case. The court offered no explanation.
There's a crazy amount of extortion, fraud, racketeering that's going on with homeowner association collection and management companies. This is costing the American Tax payers million via post foreclosure when the FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie pays off these liens. Often thousands of dollars 10x the amount of the original back assessments they are trying to collect.
New figures released by the Pentagon show a significant spike in the number of US soldiers diagnosed with and treated for serious mental disorders. For the first time, more US soldiers are hospitalized for serious mental disorders from their military service than for injuries and battlefield wounds, according to new medical data released by the Pentagon. In 2009, there were 17,538 US soldiers put into hospitals for mental health problems compared to 17,354 for battle wounds and injuries sustained during military service. ...The US Secretary of Defense also admits that the healthcare costs are 'eating the Defense Department alive,' ,,,,Multiple deployments of the troops and heavy pressure upon the forces in places, in which the population is not very friendly, are all contributing to the spike in mental health disorders, according to the Pentagon medical report...Pentagon figures also indicate that one out of every 10 US Marines is hospitalized for mental disorders with similar numbers in the Navy and Air Force. ...Ten percent of those returning soldiers will end up in medical treatment centers for mental problems; those are the lucky ones that don't kill themselves. ...."There will be more soldiers this year to commit suicide than did last year, and last year was the ...The US Army, which has undertaken the bulk of the ground missions in Afghanistan and now has nearly 140, 000 of its troops in Afghanistan and Iraq , had 10,222 mental health hospitalizations last year, which added up to 90 percent of all army hospitalizations.
The commencement of the of unconstitutional payments by LA County to LA Superior Court judges was "unnoticeable" to the people of LA County in the late 1980s. Yet, its effect began to permeate the Los Angeles political and judicial systems to the extent that fundamental constitutional rights were compromised. Twenty years after the commencement of the payments, the political and judicial systems of LA County are rife with conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure and the failure to enforce constitutional rights and laws. A well traveled "money trail" exists from LA County who makes payments to LA Superior Court judges [present and past] who decide cases in favor of LA County. A second well traveled "money trail" exists from political contributors [many times "developers"] who give political contributions to LA Supervisors [who decide in their favor] who make LA County payments to LA Superior Court judges who decide cases in favor of LA County [and the developers who are co parties with LA County].
What would you do if you and your husband were in the middle of fighting the good fight against the tyranny of your homeowners association, when your husband was suddenly hospitalized, and during his hospitalization, your homeowners association's CAI lawyer got a judge to summon your husband to court to pay the CAI lawyer a $5,000 sanction -- when the CAI lawyer knew full well that your husband could not attend his deposition because he was in the hospital?
The law firm of Peters and Freedman with offices in Encinitas and Palm Desert, California, claim to represent several hundred homeowner associations. A number of homeowners have been investigating some of the practices of this law firm, especially when they conducted foreclosure sales on behalf of homeowner associations. An investigation of 5 foreclosures has the following in common. 1. The foreclosure sale was handled by David Peters of Peters and Freedman. 2. The notice of foreclosure sale was posted in a publication called Uptown Examiner. It has a circulation of approximately 165. 3. Each home was sold to the same attorney, Carlos Sosa. 4. The homes were sold at foreclosure for amounts ranging from $1400 to $7,000. The equity in each home was estimated to be between $150,000 to $300,000.
It has been a banner year for homeowner association foreclosure lawyers, Peter & Freedman. They have been collecting untold amounts from victimized seniors and homeowners who fell into their legal traps in Riverside County, San Diego County and Orange County. Hundreds of seniors in Desert Crest Homeowners Association, other associations and their families are fighting their liens and lawsuits.This month Peters & Freedman lawyers had fellow lawyer Michael Kim unsucessfully attempt to overcollect tens of thousands of dollars from homeowner victims they terrorized in lawsuits by giving judges legal bills that included billings from other cases.
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