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Banks in Mortgage Deal Said to Demand N.Y. MERS Suit Be Dropped Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. made a last minute demand that New York drop claims filed against them last week as a condition of a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, a person familiar with the matter said.

Banks in Mortgage Deal Are Said to Demand New York MERS Lawsuit Be Dropped Bank of America Corp. , JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) made a last minute demand that New York drop claims filed against them last week as a condition of a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, a person familiar with the matter said.

JPMorgan, BofA Sued by New York Over Use of Mortgage Database JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. were sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over the use of a mortgage database that the state said led to improper foreclosures.

BofA, JPMorgan, Ex-UBS Trader, Foreclosure Deal, Goldman in Court News ?The banks created the MERS system as an end-run around the property recording system, to facilitate the rapid securitization and sale of mortgages,? Schneiderman said in a statement.

Schneiderman MERS Suit and HUD?s Donovan Remarks Confirm That Mortgage ?Settlement? is a Stealth Bank Bailout In case you had any doubts about what the mortgage settlement was really about and why banks that were so keenly opposed to it are now willing to go ahead, the news of the last two days should settle any doubts. As we had indicated earlier, one of the many leaks about the settlement showed that there had been a major shift its parameters. Of the $25 billion that has been bandied about as a ...

Schneiderman Files Civil Fraud Lawsuit Against Three Major Banks for Use of MERS (Updated) New York filed a lawsuit against various units of JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells, MERSCORP and MERS over their use of MERS in foreclosures. This civil suit alleges that the use of MERS has "resulted in a wide range of deceptive and illegal practices," most importantly, over 13,000 foreclosures in MERS name where MERS "often" lacked standing to foreclose. The suit claims that an undetermined ...

NY Attorney General Sues Wells Fargo, BofA, J.P. Morgan Over MERS NY Attorney General Sues Wells Fargo, BofA, J.P. Morgan Over MERS

New York Sues 3 Banks Over MERS Mortgage Database The state attorney general asserted that fraudulent use of the tracking system allowed Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase to avoid the need for recording mortgage transfers.

MERS/Goodwill Helps Local Man Change His Life (Springfield , MO ) -- It's hard enough for people with strong resumes to find a job these days. People with disabilities have a whole other set of challenges.

MERS, the law, and the State By lambert strether. The current version of Harpers -- go buy it on the newstand! -- has a terrific article by Christopher Ketcham on the MERS mess, which NC has done so much to bring to the attention of the public. I'm going to excerpt and contextualize two portions of the article. First, Ketcham interviews foreclosure activist Vermont Trotter of Coeur D'Arlene, Idaho on the "clouded title ...