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dixiegrrrrl

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24. Your friend might be interested in this :

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #17)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 09:46 PM

Mar 2012

I posted this in the Economy group:

Foreclosure Whistleblower Wins $18 Million in Bank Accord
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11168719

If you have knowledge of the bank doing something that has caused the government to get screwed, you can sue in the name of the government and get a big chunk of the recovery.

It's called "Qui Tam" and it exists for the very purpose of giving people an incentive to blow the whistle on any fraud that has the effect of stealing from the government.

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Feds confirm robosigning at Bank of America, Wells Fargo and others [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2012 OP

So? What happens now? KansDem Mar 2012 #1

let's all become notaries and onethatcares Mar 2012 #3

"notary fraud" is a misdemeanor banned from Kos Mar 2012 #4

I'm not following you, but what I'm trying to say is onethatcares Mar 2012 #7

If your house was taken with forged documents and that was the intent of forging them sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #10

It would be if that actually happened. But it has not. banned from Kos Mar 2012 #13

I see, you really have not been following this story. sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #17

Your friend might be interested in this : dixiegrrrrl Mar 2012 #24

Put a lien on their property. BOA must own something Vincardog Mar 2012 #5

Just forge what you need to OWN one of their buildings, you may have to pay a small fine but.... Dragonfli Mar 2012 #20

Exactly. I would pay a $2,500 fine to own a $25,000,000 building. Where are those papers? Vincardog Mar 2012 #21

This is what happens now kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #9

I didn't know that any bank denied robo-signings. Its common knowledge. banned from Kos Mar 2012 #2

Then you haven't been following this story. No one knew they had been robo-signing sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #11

Read again. I said banks never DENIED robo-signing. banned from Kos Mar 2012 #15

Outsourcing one's fraud keeps one's hands clean then, good to know Dragonfli Mar 2012 #22

And foreclosures continue to destroy lives! superpatriotman Mar 2012 #6

"the grand settlement" will now protect the banks and allow them to keep the stolen money Dragonfli Mar 2012 #14

I heard they forged signatures Politicalboi Mar 2012 #8

My bank transferred my mortgage around to different entities without any documentation whatsoever tridim Mar 2012 #12

They may have lost your original paperwork. banned from Kos Mar 2012 #16

I'm long since foreclosed tridim Mar 2012 #18

I hope you get a LOT of settlement money. banned from Kos Mar 2012 #19

Actually JPM Chase paid $0 for my house, when WaMu folded.. tridim Mar 2012 #23