I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Attorney General Bill Schuette has issued subpoenas as part of his investigation into allegedly fraudulent mortgage documents filed in various Michigan counties, including Ingham.
The Grand Rapids Press reports that Schuette issued subpoenas not only to DocX, which was identified by Ingham County Register of Deeds as filing falsified documents, but to other companies as well.
In addition to DocX, which provides mortgage support services, Schuette’s office also served investigative subpoenas to Lender Processing Services Inc., Fidelity National Financial Inc. and CT Corporation System, according to an announcement today.
The subpoenas were approved by 54-B District Court, a press release on the AG’s website says. That’s the district court in East Lansing.
The investigation was launched after Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel Jr. caught a 60 Minutes investigation which uncovered the robo-signing of the name Linda Green. Hertel searched his files and found over 100 examples of the Green robo-signatures. He has since identified over 1000 documents he believes are fraudulent. On Tuesday the Ingham County Board of Commissioners approved a $60,000 contract with Legal Services of South Central Michigan to provide assistance to home owners facing foreclosure involving the allegedly fraudulent documents.
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