{"id":184718,"date":"2012-02-06T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/06\/and-while-we-are-talking-bankster-corruption\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:49:00","slug":"and-while-we-are-talking-bankster-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/06\/and-while-we-are-talking-bankster-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"And While We are Talking Bankster Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri AG has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2012\/02\/mirabile-dictu-missouri-attorney-general-files-criminal-lawsuit-on-robosiging.html\">filed criminal indictments for felony forgery<\/a> over &#8220;robo-signing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a remarkable development, because while what on pretty clearly <b>was<\/b> forgery, but I never expected someone to actually prefer criminal charges:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>\u201cLinda Greene\u201d has become a household word to those on the foreclosure fraud beat. And it turns out, for once, that the work of diligent investigators such as the foreclosure attorneys around Max Gardner, and investigators like Lynn Szymoniak and Lisa Epstein led to press coverage which in turn spurred prosecutors to act.<\/p>\n<p>What is striking about the indictment by a Missouri grand jury is that the Missouri AG Chris Koster has decided to challenge the banks\u2019 party line that robosigning and related abuses were mere \u201cpaperwork problems.\u201d He\u2019s called robosiging what it is: forgery. The 136 count indictment is for forgeries and false declarations, and the targets are LPS subsidiary and its founder and past president, Lorraine Brown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About f%$#ing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri AG has filed criminal indictments for felony forgery over &#8220;robo-signing&#8221;. This is a remarkable development, because while what on pretty clearly was forgery, but I never expected someone to actually prefer criminal charges: \u201cLinda Greene\u201d has become a household word to those on the foreclosure fraud beat. And it turns out, for once, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}