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.
Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) told WJR’s Law Show that he intends to push Congress to pass legislation to require companies that are foreclosing on a property to prove that they own the property and have the right to do so.
LANSING — The growing controversy over allegedly fraudulent foreclosure documents will receive a hearing Wednesday in the state House Banking Committee. The controversy has also prompted some public officials to call for repeal of Michigan’s foreclosure by advertisement process, and instead adopt a judicial foreclosure act.
Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI.
Leadership in the U.S. House Financial Services Committee will hold a subcommittee hearing this week in advance of four bills aimed at terminating federal programs designed to keep Americans in their homes. The programs — the Home Affordable Modification Program, HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program, the Emergency Homeowner Relief Fund (passed under the Dodd-Frank Act) and [...]
Though the pace has slowed a bit, Michigan continues to be one of the leading states for home foreclosures — and that continues to depress the price of houses on the market.
Despite promises from the Obama administration to use $50 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to fund loan modifications and prevent hundreds of thousands of homeowners from losing their homes, a new report from the CBO says that the administration will only spend a quarter of the promised money on the program. The [...]
As state officials begin a probe into the foreclosure activities of several top national lenders, a Lansing family has been waging a battle with JP Morgan Chase in an attempt to straighten out what they call faulty billings.
Today, the Obama administration lays out the case against a nationwide foreclosure moratorium. In the Huffington Post, Shaun Donovan, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, argues that the government is investigating the foreclosure fraud crisis and that a moratorium would prove counterproductive in terms of helping homeowners in the meantime — only driving down [...]
With Bank of America and GMAC (now Ally Financial) declaring moratoriums on foreclosure due to a massive problem with document fraud during the process, 40 state attorneys general — but apparently not Michigan’s — are joining forces to investigate the problem and protect their citizens. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Attorney General Richard Cordray has filed a suit against GMAC Mortgage. “There is evidence that this company has illegally ousted people from their private property,” he told TWI.
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