Mitchell J. Stein, Esq.: Monetary Crisis Panels Report Shows Government is Assisting Banks Not Citizens


Hidden Hills, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 01, 2011

The recent report by the federal commission on the economic crisis clearly demonstrates how government is allowing banks to evade duty for the crisis and helping banks far more than citizens, according to Mitchell J. Stein, Esq., of MJS Associates.

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“As an alternative of serving the interests of the people, this commission and its meaningless report have completed absolutely nothing far more than serve the banks and institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are responsible for producing the issue:, stated Mitchell J. Stein, Esq., a 25-year award-winning litigator, trial lawyer, financier, and entrepreneur who has represented numerous of the worlds largest companies and has been involved in some of the highest profile circumstances in the Nations history.

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Rather than supply the bipartisan view of the origins of the monetary crisis mandated by Congress, the panel split along partisan lines and released three competing assessments. The report was released simultaneously with two dissenting reports from the Republican minority. The majority report blamed a range of culprits for the economic crisis from overextended home owners to reckless executives and timid regulators, the minority reports on international variables and government intervention into the housing marketplace.

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According to Mitchell J. Stein, Esq., the majority reports conclusions had been vague and meaningless, including findings that human beings, not other elements like nature or technology, have been accountable for the crisis, action and inaction by these human beings was the lead to of the crisis and that the crisis could have been avoided.

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This report is a flimsy attempt by Washington insiders and bankers to keep away from blame and evade duty for the mess they have produced, stated Mitchell J. Stein, Esq. The majority reports conclusions are meaningless and utterly useless.

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The report includes particulars from more than 700 interviews conducted during an 18-month investigation seeking to clarify the housing bubble that ended badly, triggering a international credit crisis and the worst recession in decades. Media coverage integrated details about the interviews, including those with leaders of investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc., government regulators, particularly present and former officials at the Federal Reserve, and executives such as former Countrywide Financial Corp. Chief Executive Angelo R. Mozilo, who final year agreed to spend a record $ 22.five-million fine to settle a government fraud lawsuit over the lender’s near-collapse. Coverage of the report in the Los Angeles Occasions also indicated that Mozilo told the panel he got swept up in a “gold rush” mentality that had taken over the nation.

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It is outrageous that the Commissioners permitted Mr. Mozilo to pass the blame onto citizens without having clearly identifying the leading injurious role he and Countrywide played in damaging our economy and hurting millions of home owners, mentioned Mitchell J. Stein, Esq.

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According to the Los Angeles Instances, the majority report concluded that “a crisis of this magnitude can’t be the function of a handful of bad actors” and ascribed duty to each organizations and people in company and the government.

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We agree with the minority reports that blame ought to be focused on intervention in the housing industry including assistance for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that this report was part of a partisan approach created to make predetermined final results, so its conclusions are inconsequential said Mitchell J. Stein, Esq. It is ironic that soon after all the pain inflicted on our citizens by the economic meltdown, this commission’s investigation and report is just yet another instance of Washington waste.

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According to Mitchell J. Stein, Esq., there is constantly a silver lining to the black cloud. “For a lot more than two years for the duration of this meltdown, my mantra has been distinct that I by no means expected the federal government to take duty. I in no way anticipated the banks to take responsibility, although I need to admit after the government doled out the first trillion dollars of TARP funds I believed — if only for a second — that aid was on the way. Then I woke up from my a single-second dream into the nightmare of dealing with criminals, liars and persons forging documents. Having represented these very same banks and their governmental partners for years, I was and am unwilling to enable my customers to turn out to be an additional statistical imbecile who goes by way of the Bank drill of submitting economic info to the bank and then resubmitting it and then resubmitting it and then resubmitting it and then resubmitting it. I have never ever carried out, and nor shall I now do, ‘loan modifications’ simply because that is a term created up by banks to get time until the wave of public sentiment against banks has subsided. So what is the very good news, asked the Doberman? Nicely get ’em in Court,” stated Mitchell J. Stein, Esq.

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ABOUT MITCHELL J. STEIN &amp ASSOCIATES&#13

Mitchell J. Stein &amp Associates is a California-primarily based law firm founded by M.J. Stein, Esq. a 25-year award-winning litigator, trial lawyer, financier, and entrepreneur who has represented a lot of of the worlds biggest companies and has been involved in some of the highest profile situations in the Nations history. The Firms philosophy is primarily based on the belief that their clientele demands are of the utmost importance and, as a outcome, a higher percentage of the Firms business has been from repeat consumers and referrals. The Firms practice areas include Complex Litigation, Bank Problems, Mergers &amp Acquisitions, Industrial and Residential Foreclosures , and Bankruptcy Litigation. Mr. Stein is also the founder of VIPS Foundation (Victims of Injustice Discomfort and Suffering), via which victims nationwide, over the final 15-years, have received help following unfortunate events that subjected them to oppression or mistreatment. In that regard, Mr. Stein received the inaugural Mitchell J. Stein Benefactor Award from the National Organization for Victims Assistance (NOVA) for his perform in guarding victims rights. Go to http://www.mjsteinassociates.com or http://www.dobielaw.org for a lot more info.

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Mitchell J. Stein, Esq.: Military Families’ Foreclosure Fiasco Offers Ominous Warning in Dealing with Banks


Hidden Hills, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 20, 2011

Recent revelations that one particular of the nations biggest lenders overcharged thousands of military households for their mortgages, like households of troops fighting in Afghanistan, and improperly foreclosed on a lot more than a dozen military households highlights the extent of the foreclosure crisis and the disadvantages home owners face with no specialist legal help in foreclosure actions, according to Mitchell Stein, Esq. of Mitchell Stein &amp Associates.

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The revelations have been the outcome of a lawsuit filed by Marine Capt. Jonathan Rowles, a fighter jet pilot who has served the nation as a Marine for five years, against JP Morgan Chase soon after he and his wife, Julia, attempted unsuccessfully for numerous years to get a loan modification. The lawsuit has received national focus and brought on a assessment of every single mortgage involving active duty personnel by the bank, which has admitted overcharging the family by as significantly as $ 900 a month, hitting them with three-a-day collection calls and claiming they owed as much as $ 15,000 — even even though they didnt owe something and had never ever missed a mortgage payment.

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These committed members of the armed forces would have lost their residences via blatant mismanagement of their mortgages by JP Morgan Chase, said Mitchell J. Stein, a 25-year award-winning litigator, trial lawyer, and philanthropist committed to safeguarding consumers and victims’ rights in reigning in abusive practices of banks, lenders and others. No amount of PR spin and backpedaling can make up for the harm the bank has carried out to the lives of thousands of our service men and women and their families.

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Beneath the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), active-duty troops usually get mortgage interest rates lowered to six percent and are protected from foreclosure. A Chase official told NBC News that some four,000 troops could have been overcharged. Whats much more, the bank found it improperly foreclosed on the residences of 14 military families.

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Chase could have repeatedly violated the SCRA, which is developed to protect troops and their households from economic pressure although theyre in harms way, said Mitchell J. Stein. It is unfortunate that a lawsuit was needed to get them to act within the law and it is probably we will see this scenario repeated as the foreclosure crisis continues.

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The Rowles records show that whilst they had been creating payments at six %, the bank had been charging them at prices above 9 or ten %. They known as the bank repeatedly to explain the error with no success and then the bank started harassing them for funds they did not owe, like threatening to take their property and report them to a credit agency. Following collection calls began occurring at 3 am on weekends, the Rowles sued Chase for himself and other members of the military.

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At a time when millions of Americans are fighting for their properties due to foreclosure, this shows how banks and lenders often willfully ignore the law and wrongfully throw individuals out of their homes, and it is especially despicable that Chase treated our servicemen and females this way. Primarily based on what can only be described as a terrible mess, it is reasonable to ask: In addition to the military families, how a lot of non-military households has this bank wrongfully foreclosed on? said Mitchell J. Stein.

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The case is Rowles vs Chase Residence Finance, LLC 9:10-cv-01756-MBS

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ABOUT MITCHELL J. STEIN &amp ASSOCIATES

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Mitchell J. Stein &amp Associates is a California-primarily based law firm founded by M.J. Stein, Esq. a 25-year award-winning litigator, trial lawyer, financier, and entrepreneur who has represented a lot of of the world’s largest organizations and has been involved in some of the highest profile situations in the Nation’s history. The Firms philosophy is based on the belief that their customers requirements are of the utmost value and, as a result, a high percentage of the Firms company has been from repeat clients and referrals. The Firms practice places consist of Complicated Litigation, Bank Troubles, Mergers &amp Acquisitions, Commercial and Residential Foreclosures , and Bankruptcy Litigation. Mr. Stein is also the founder of VIPS Foundation (Victims of Injustice Discomfort and Suffering), via which victims nationwide, more than the final 15-years, have received assistance following unfortunate events that subjected them to oppression or mistreatment. In that regard, Mr. Stein received the inaugural Mitchell J. Stein Benefactor Award from the National Organization for Victims Assistance http://www.trynova.org (NOVA) for his work in defending victims rights. Go to http://www.mjsteinassociates.com or http://www.dobielaw.org for more information.

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Mitchell J. Stein, Esq.: Trend of Bank of America Loan Modification and Consumer Abuses Needs Exposure


Hidden Hills, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 25, 2011

Facing a national storm of criticism more than therapy of homeowners and illegal mortgage foreclosures, and most lately sued by Arizona and Nevada more than home-loan modification programs intended to maintain property owners who borrowed from its Countrywide mortgage unit out of foreclosure, Bank of America is becoming exposed as a major issue in making the problems property owners face in the ongoing foreclosure crisis, according to Mitchell J. Stein, Esq. of Mitchell J. Stein &amp Associates.

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There is a disturbing pattern of the way Bank of America treats folks getting revealed through consumer feedback and the tremendous amount of negative media coverage, which merely put, is regularly terrible, said Mitchell J. Stein, Esq., a 25-year award-winning litigator, trial lawyer, and philanthropist committed to protecting shoppers and victims’ rights in reigning in abusive practices of banks, lenders and other individuals. It is vital that the behaviors of the banks that have helped develop this crisis get national attention to assist protect buyers, resolve the crisis and recognize the Banks true function in it.

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Even though all 50 U.S. states are investigating whether banks and loan servicers used false documents and signatures to justify hundreds of thousands of foreclosures, Bank of America was sued in December, 2010 by Arizona and Nevada over home-loan modification programs intended to hold property owners who borrowed from its Countrywide mortgage unit out of foreclosure. A judgment in 2009 to resolve a lawsuit alleging Countrywide engaged in fraud necessary the Bank create a loan modification system for former Countrywide borrowers in those states.

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According to the Arizona lawyer common, rather of working to modify loans on a timely basis, Bank of America apparently proceeded with foreclosures while borrowers requests for modifications were still pending, mentioned Mitchell J. Stein, Esq. This is yet another of several examples in the foreclosure crisis of Bank of America allegedly ignoring the law to pursue earnings above people.

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In the Arizona and Nevada suits, the bank is accused of misleading shoppers about needs for the modification system and how extended it would take for requests to be decided. The bank supplied inaccurate and deceptive reasons for denying modification requests, according to the suits.

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From throwing peoples belongings into the street throughout wrongful foreclosures to foreclosing on homeowners operating for loan modifications, there is a typical and despicable lack of consideration by the Bank for its buyers, specifically men and women in jeopardy of becoming evicted since the Bank repeatedly doesnt fulfill its legal responsibilities in dealing with them and their mortgages, mentioned Mitchell J. Stein, Esq.

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The Arizona lawsuit seeks a court order holding the bank in contempt for violating the agreement and requiring it to pay as considerably as $ 25,000 for every single violation of the accord plus as considerably as $ ten,000 for each and every violation of the states customer-fraud law. Nevadas complaint seeks unspecified civil penalties and restitution.

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The Arizona case is Arizona v Bank of America, CV2010- 33580, Maricopa County Superior Court (Phoenix). The Nevada case is Nevada v. Bank of America, Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County (Las Vegas).

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ABOUT MITCHELL J. STEIN &amp ASSOCIATES&#13

Mitchell J. Stein &amp Associates is a California-based law firm founded by M.J. Stein, Esq. a 25-year award-winning litigator, trial lawyer, financier, and entrepreneur who has represented many of the world’s biggest organizations and has been involved in some of the highest profile circumstances in the Nation’s history. The Firms philosophy is primarily based on the belief that their consumers needs are of the utmost value and, as a result, a higher percentage of the Firms enterprise has been from repeat buyers and referrals. The Firms practice places include Complex Litigation, Bank Difficulties, Mergers &amp Acquisitions, Commercial and Residential Foreclosures , and Bankruptcy Litigation. Mr. Stein is also the founder of VIPS Foundation (Victims of Injustice Discomfort and Suffering), via which victims nationwide, over the last 15-years, have received assistance following unfortunate events that subjected them to oppression or mistreatment. In that regard, Mr. Stein received the inaugural Mitchell J. Stein Benefactor Award from the National Organization for Victims Help (NOVA) for his work in safeguarding victims rights. Go to http://www.mjsteinassociates.com or http://www.dobielaw.org for much more info.

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