Walt Gray interviewer for California’s KCRA Channel 3 digs deeper into the foreclosure audit scam that is sweeping across the state. Attorney General Jerry Brown held a news conference last week warning of the dangers regarding phony foreclosure specialists. Attorney General Jerry Brown warned citizens...

Walt Gray continues his Project Economy series about foreclosures in California with an interview with Attorney Jonathan Stein. Mr. Stein was rated by Business Week as the top foreclosure attorney in California and one of the top eleven in the country. Attorney Stein and the client he represents Warren...

Nineteen months after the catastrophic failure of one of Sacramento’s top lenders, Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank, a flurry of local lawsuits alleges that the bank’s successor – OneWest Bank – is systematically working to push home loan borrowers into foreclosure. The allegations filed in...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in May of 2009 created a team to defend against mortgage fraud. The team since its inception has been using covert operations, wire tapping, and advanced computer technology to obtain evidence involving economic crimes. The team is known as the National Mortgage Fraud...

General Counsel Jim Sandison Raises Fundraising Event’s Highest Amount in Only 15 Days SACRAMENTO, Calif. – June 25, 2009 – US Loan Auditors Chief Legal Counsel, Jim Sandison, knows he has plenty of friends across the greater Sacramento area. He recently raised the largest amount of “bail money”...

Countrywide Financial lost in its petition for relief from investor lawsuits against the Megabank. Countrywide Financial was seeking relief from investor lawsuits under the new legislation Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. The legislation provides that mortgage servicers that agree to modify...

The Obama Administration this week assembled mortgage company executives in Washington to insist they expedite their efforts in modifying loan payments for homeowners that are descending into foreclosure. The Treasury requested that companies acquire more man power and initiate training to speed up the...

Originaly by Jonathan Foxx:  The ancient Roman god, Janus, was two-faced—his back-to-back visages looking at the past and into the future—a symbolic representation of ineluctable transitions through the passage of time, a reminder of essential change from one condition to another, whether for better...