The Missouri AG has filed criminal indictments for felony forgery over “robo-signing”.
This is a remarkable development, because while what on pretty clearly was forgery, but I never expected someone to actually prefer criminal charges:
“Linda Greene” has become a household word to those on the foreclosure fraud beat. And it turns out, for once, that the work of diligent investigators such as the foreclosure attorneys around Max Gardner, and investigators like Lynn Szymoniak and Lisa Epstein led to press coverage which in turn spurred prosecutors to act.
What is striking about the indictment by a Missouri grand jury is that the Missouri AG Chris Koster has decided to challenge the banks’ party line that robosigning and related abuses were mere “paperwork problems.” He’s called robosiging what it is: forgery. The 136 count indictment is for forgeries and false declarations, and the targets are LPS subsidiary and its founder and past president, Lorraine Brown.
About f%$#ing time.
Now I wonder when someone will take the next step and arrest some of the lawyers who presented these manufactured documents in court. Forgery is one thing. Perjury is another.
I'm hoping that a judge starts issuing contempt citations.