Monday, April 26, 2010

The SEC Has Charged Goldman Sachs With... What?

The Breakdown
by CHRISTOPHER HAYES
April 23, 2010

For the last few weeks, the news cycle has been dominated by the financial industry, and the continued struggle to enact reforms on the giants that precipitated the global economic meltdown. In the wake of endless panels, congressional hearings and infuriating claims of total innocence (by everyone from Alan Greenspan to Lehman Brother's Richard Fuld), the US Securities and Exchange Commission took action. Last week, the SEC filed a civil suit against heavyweight Goldman Sachs for their role in exacerbating the sub-prime mortgage crisis by producing risky investment options. On this week's The Breakdown, DC Editor Christopher Hayes discusses the complexities of the case with the prolific blogger, author and economist Simon Johnson.

2 comments:

  1. I am presently in litigation with Fremont Reorganizing, Goldman Sachs dba Litton Loan Servicing, et al., (2 different cases) for about 2 years now. The main issue with the complaint is a fraudulent loan originated by Fremont in June 2006. This in turn produced an array of other
    issues: unsigned deed of trust, over billing issues, lost payments, excessive balloon payment, back dated assignments, illegal non-judicial foreclosure documentation, missing documentation, illegally reporting to my credit, falsifying declarations, 6 week TRO's, court procedures not followed, judges wait until the courtroom is cleared to rule against a TRO (both times); retired (78 year old) judge ruled against a seated judges TRO where the retired judge took 30 minutes to read a 300 page brief. The whole time they have been ignoring my request and failing to give me the required documentation so that I can rescind the loan. Goldman Sachs dba Litton Loan Servicing has been aggressively trying to foreclose on my property. I believe to cash out for insurance reasons. (It's over a million dollar loan) I have invested over $400,000 into this property for the past 5 years and if I had known about this mortgage meltdown game played by Wall Street I would have never proceeded with this Real Estate transaction. The Media and the Government has not once addressed or helped the borrower, namely me, who also has been damaged by these defaulted CDO's.

    A Time line of what's going on with Goldman Sachs to show how they are scheming to pursue foreclosures for the insurance by acquiring distressed, shelled fraudulent companies which will eventually or haven't already gone broke.

     Oct 26, 2005 Litton Loan Servicing Class Action - mishandling loans, servicing over 400,000 borrowers - case settled Feb 17, 2009 for $537 (limited due to class status)
     Feb 27, 2007 FDIC Cease and Desist - Fremont Reorganizing for illegal loan practices, et al., (largest predatory lenders who heavily solicited brokers for their schemes)
     Oct 16, 2007 Massachusetts Lawsuit vs Fremont and Goldman Sachs - Predatory Lending Practices - settled May 11, 2009 for $60 mil
     Dec 11, 2007 - Goldman Sachs Acquires Litton Loan Servicing
     June 2, 2008 Litton (Goldman Sachs) Acquires Fremont Reorganizing Servicing Rights
     June 19, 2008 Fremont Reorganizing files Bankruptcy
     Apr 16, 2010 - SEC vs Goldman Sachs - Securities Fraud

    Here is the link to my blog http://bushnellcomplaint.blogspot.com/ if you want to download court documents pertaining to my case.

    Note: My wife is pursuing individuals who are interested in joining her in a class action lawsuit with regards to violation of her community property rights in a wrongful foreclosure. If you are in a community property state and a spouse is not on title you may have grounds

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  2. Wow! Fight the good fight! If something isn't done soon, we all suffer. This is class warfare, with the rich bankers making their power move to permanently control the rest of us like they did in the feudal system of the dark ages. They want wage slaves tied to the owners of the land on which they live (the owners being the mortgage holders). And if they win this, the freedoms described in the constitution are gone for good.

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