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Judges Take Notice of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Just in case you missed it, here is the most recent addition to the list of famous last words: 'Your honor, you just don't understand how things work.' According to press reports, that is how Judge Christopher A. Boyko of the Federal District
Court in Cleveland, OH, characterized the foreclosing lender's counsel response to the judge's request for proof that the lender, Deutsche Bank, actually owned the 14 unpaid mortgages that the lender was asking the court to foreclose.
The mortgages were part of a package of thousands of such loans purchased as a part of a Structured Investment Vehicle ('SIV') by Deutsche Bank. Apparently, somewhere between the closing, the packaging of the mortgages, their securitization by the packager, and the sale of the package to Deutsche Bank, the original mortgage documents had been lost. The only thing that Deutsche Bank's counsel could produce was a document showing an 'intent to convey the mortgages.' In dismissing Deutsche Bank's foreclosure action, an exasperated Judge Boyko wrote that the banks 'seem to adopt the attitude that since they have been doing this for so long unchallenged, this practice equates with legal compliance.' (See Amir Efrati, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 2007, p. B6, and Gretchen Morgenson, 'Foreclosures Hit a Snag for Lenders,' The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2007)
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