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GI Go Fund Teams Up with Goldman Sachs and The Mission Continues to Assemble Hundreds of Care Packages for Homeless Veterans

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Newark, NJ (PRWEB) July 02, 2013

Over 30 members of Goldman Sachs took element in an effort to support veterans at the moment living on the streets by joining The GI Go Fund and The Mission Continues in Newark City Hall to assemble over 200 care packages for homeless veterans.

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The care packages were created by the volunteers so that they might be distributed in the course of homeless veteran outreach events in the area. They include garments donated by Harley-Davidson and Bravado, as properly as non-perishable food supplies donated by Operation Gratitude.

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The work was element of the companys Neighborhood TeamWorks plan, which is a international volunteer initiative that permits members of the company to take a day out of the office and spend it volunteering with neighborhood nonprofit organizations. In 2012, far more than 25,000 men and women from 48 Goldman Sachs offices about the world partnered with far more than 950 non-profit organizations on a diverse array of community service projects.

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This occasion was coordinated in conjunction with the Mission Continues, an organization that grants community service fellowships to Post-9/11 Veterans, empowering them to transform their personal lives by serving other people and straight impacting their communities. The care packages were assembled with the help of Mission Continues fellows in an effort to assist other veterans get back on their feet.

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The GI Go Fund is a nonprofit organization that helps veterans and their households with locating employment, going to college, connecting to healthcare, and finding housing possibilities. The organization has made waves in current years considering that forging a historic partnership with Mayor Cory Booker and the city of Newark to head its Veterans Workplace, utilizing a smarter government approach to locate genuine solutions to the citys veteran population.

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It is appalling that males and women who served our nation in uniform with honor, courage, and commitment, should return from duty and distant battlefields to homelessness and apathy, mentioned Mayor Booker. These are men and girls who produced huge sacrifices and fought in battle to shield our liberties, our residences, and our streets. Also several of them return to appreciate precious few liberties, lack residences, and are forced to sleep in our streets. My administration is committed to providing our returning warriors the really like and respect that they have earned.

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We are proud of how Goldman Sachs and its Community TeamWorks system has partnered with our GI Go Fund to provide care packages for homeless veterans in the City of Newark. I worth the perform completed by GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous to create this critical partnership, and I urge Newark residents to help the GI Go Fund and all of our veterans.

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“When you prepare these care packages, bear in mind that these packages are intended for Americans who at a single point fought for you and I, said GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous to the volunteers. Do not feel about the tattered garments they put on nowadays, but the uniform they as soon as wore for you. Do not consider of the bridge they sleep beneath but the bunker they as soon as slept in to safeguard us. Constantly bear in mind that these packages are meant for a hero a man or lady who loved you and this nation far more than themselves, and with this package we can begin to say we enjoy you also.”

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The packages will be utilised as element of the organizations Midnight Mission for Homeless Veterans, an revolutionary outreach service that has scores of volunteers going out just before dawn to places with high volumes of veteran homelessness to offer them with emergency supplies and access to VA health-related help. Some packages were right away delivered to the St. Bridget Assistance Center, a regional meals pantry that offers solutions to the citys homeless population.

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In addition, the care packages will be used for the duration of the organizations Stand Down for Homeless Veterans later this fall, which is a 1 day occasion that hyperlinks homeless veterans to food, clothing, legal help, haircuts, and emergency medical aid.

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Kramer Kaslow: The Economic Times Reports that NY Fed is Investigating Goldman Unit

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Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2011

The Law Offices of Kramer and Kaslow not too long ago released comments from their lead lawyer, Philip Kramer, with regards to the newest report from The Economic Instances. According to the British newspaper The Monetary Times, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is investigating allegations that the mortgage servicing arm of Goldman Sachs failed to conduct acceptable reviews prior to denying borrowers a possibility to reduce their payments by means of a government loan modification programme.

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When asked for a comment, the article says that the Fed confirmed that it was conducting an inquiry. The Financial Instances also reports, a individual familiar with the Goldman unit concerned, Litton Loan of Houston, Texas, mentioned loans were denied with no the suitable assessment beneath a denial sweep approach devised to clear a backlog of applications.

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According to the post, the allegations had been brought to the Feds focus by the Monetary Times, which obtained a letter written by an anonymous Litton employee.

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Consolidated plaintiff litigation lawyer Philip A Kramer who represents hundreds of clientele suing six of the nations largest banks, is familiar with Litton and feels that its practices mirror what he has observed at many other monetary institutions as properly.

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You have a couple of items going on here, says Kramer. One, you can never underestimate incompetence. Undertrained, overworked employees deliberately lose paperwork so that they can claim they have met their quotas, when the dilemma really lies with incomplete files. That happens, but there are much more pernicious goings on as well. The banks are supposed to favor the government HAMP program, but in truth, if they are going to make a loan modification accommodation, they would rather use one particular of their own in-home applications which are normally much less generous to a homeowner.

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According to The Monetary Occasions article, HAMP modifications are supposed to take priority more than non-governmental loan modification applications. However, the regulations establishing HAMP rules give no penalties. The write-up goes on the report that the letter received by the Fed from the particular person familiar with Litton said that at the very same time that the modifications beneath Hamp were becoming denied, Goldman was increasing non-government modifications for loans it retained on its books.

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And that, Philip Kramer observes, is the heart of the problem. Bank greed is pitted against the needs of desperate property owners. The quality of mercy is not strained. Well, Im guessing that bank executives dont precisely take that to heart. When a bank is involved, I suspect greed is going to win out each and every time. At the expense of the homeowner, Im afraid.

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Far more of Philip Kramers observations can be located at the Kramer Kaslow weblog.

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ABOUT PHILIP KRAMER&#13

PHILIP A. KRAMER is the senior companion of the Law Office of Kramer &amp Kaslow, in Calabasas, California. Kramer &amp Kaslow is Martindale Hubbell AV rated. Mr. Kramer is a perennial recipient of the prestigious Southern California Super Lawyer award.

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Mr. Kramer received his undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and his Juris Doctorate from the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC. His practice emphasizes industrial litigation and trial advocacy, with a concentration on organization litigation, and real house matters. He has prosecuted and defended circumstances for more than twenty five years.

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Mr. Kramer is a licensed real estate broker and has spent considerable time offering legal services in connection with true estate concerns relating to loan modification and loss mitigation, land use and zoning, environmental concerns, easements, construction and improvement, finance, and landlord tenant matters.

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Mr. Kramer is admitted to practice just before all courts in the State of California, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Military Appeals. Mr. Kramer has attempted in excess of 200 circumstances. He has appeared on nationally televised applications concerning pre-trial procedure and trial approach and has appeared as a guest lecturer on topics ranging from constitutional law to trial practice, and Mr. Kramer often lectures on a broad spectrum of different legal and business concerns.

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Mr. Kramer also serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court and as a Mediator.

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Mr. Kramer is also a previous president of the Los Angeles West Inns of Court, a national organization dedicated to bringing professionalism and civility back into the legal profession. He also serves on quite a few Boards of Directors and serves as an officer in numerous firms. For far more data call (818) 224-3900 or pay a visit to http://kramer-kaslow.com

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