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[quote:RoXY:MV8xNTc4NDI2XzI5MTExMTA4X0Q4MjlBNTA5] [b]DEMOCRATIZE BANKING: Occupy the Neighborhood, How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain[/b] by Ellen Brown Global Research, January 15, 2012 Web of Debt - 2012-01-12 An electronic database called MERS has created defects in the chain of title to over half the homes in America. Counties have been cheated out of millions of dollars in recording fees, and their title records are in hopeless disarray. Meanwhile, foreclosed and abandoned homes are blighting neighborhoods. Straightening out the records and restoring the homes to occupancy is clearly in the public interest, and the burden is on local government to do it. But how? New legal developments are presenting some innovative alternatives. John O’Brien is Register of Deeds for Southern Essex County, Massachusetts. He calls his land registry a “crime scene.” A formal forensic audit of the properties for which he is responsible found that: • Only 16% of the mortgage assignments were valid. • 27% of the invalid assignments were fraudulent, 35% were “robo-signed,” and 10% violated the Massachusetts Mortgage Fraud Statute. • The identity of financial institutions that are current owners of the mortgages could be determined for only 287 out of 473 (60%). • There were 683 missing assignments for the 287 traced mortgages, representing approximately $180,000 in lost recording fees per 1,000 mortgages whose current ownership could be traced. At the root of the problem is that title has been recorded in the name of a private entity called Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS). MERS is a mere place holder for the true owners, a faceless, changing pool of investors owning indeterminate portions of sliced and diced, securitized properties. Their identities have been so well hidden that their claims to title are now in doubt. According to the auditor: What this means is that . . . the institutions, including many pension funds, that purchased these mortgages don’t actually own them . . . . [b]CONTINUE: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28664[/b] [/quote]
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