[Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs telling shoppersthat Wells Fargo

[agnes at mcn.org]

Should we put out a call for the 28ththis Fri. or the first Friday in
April? Who's willing?Choose a date. How many for the 28th?----------,Who'd
rather do it on the first Friday?-------I'd be willing to make a sign
stating "Wells Fargo fined $175 Billion for discrimination in home
mortgage loans."
Agnes.


> I agree and thought we talked about doing this last meeting. Maybe B of A
> can rest for one day.
> Two people on each entrance, maybe...?
>
> rk
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
>
>> This new info on Wells Fargo's foreclosure fraud just came in, so I
>> agree that the time is right to stand in front of Safeway with signs.  I
>> wish we could go inside the store near the Wells Fargo business so the
>> folks in line there would see us and we can get some to change to
>> Savings bank or the Credit Union.  Ann
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:30 -0700
>> > From: agnes at mcn.org
>> > To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
>> > Subject: [Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs
>> telling	shoppersthat Wells Fargo
>> >
>> > So why are we not protesting at Safeway's Wells Fargo Bank site on
>> Fridays?
>> > Agnes
>> >
>> > March 21, 2014 |
>> > A new internal report says the Justice Department massively overstated
>> its
>> > successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a
>> low
>> > priority for investigation. The Justice Department’s inspector general
>> > says despite playing a central role in the nation’s financial crisis,
>> > mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority at
>> all.
>> > This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document
>> appears to
>> > guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
>> > foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country’s largest mortgage
>> > servicer and services some nine million home loans.
>> >
>> > Transcript
>> >
>> > This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
>> >
>> > Juan González: A new internal report says the Justice Department
>> massively
>> > overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact
>> ranking
>> > it as a low priority for investigation. The Justice Department’s
>> inspector
>> > general says despite playing a central role in the nation’s financial
>> > crisis, mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a
>> priority
>> > at all. In one instance, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed to have
>> > filed lawsuits on behalf of homeowner victims for losses totaling more
>> > than $1 billion, but the actual amount was 91 percent less, around $95
>> > million.
>> >
>> > This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document
>> appears to
>> > guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
>> > foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country’s largest mortgage
>> > servicer and services some nine million home loans.
>> >
>> > Amy Goodman: State and federal regulators are now focusing on the
>> > allegations in the lawsuit brought by Linda Tirelli, who joins us now.
>> > She’s an attorney representing clients being foreclosed on by Wells
>> Fargo.
>> > Earlier this month, she discovered the Wells Fargo manual on how to
>> > produce missing documents to foreclose on homeowners. She’s a partner
>> at
>> > the Garvey, Tirelli & Cushner law firm in White Plains, New York.
>> >
>> > In Minneapolis, we’re joined by Kevin Whelan, campaign director for
>> the
>> > Home Defenders League, a national movement of underwater homeowners
>> and
>> > allies who organize to keep people in their homes and demand
>> > accountability.
>> >
>> > Wells Fargo declined Democracy Now!'s interview request, saying
>> they're in
>> > a, quote, "quiet period" pending the announcement of their quarterly
>> > earnings.
>> >
>> > We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Linda Tirelli, let’s begin with
>> you.
>> >
>> > Linda Tirelli: Good morning.
>> >
>> > AG: Can you describe this manual, how you got it and what it reveals?
>> >
>> > LT: Absolutely. The manual that I have, it’s actually entitled the
>> "Wells
>> > Fargo Home Mortgage Foreclosure Attorney [Procedure] Manual, Version
>> 1."
>> > And it says on it that it’s last published 2/24/2012. Mind you, the
>> > national mortgage settlement agreement was announced a week prior, on
>> > 2/19/2012.
>> >
>> > The way I obtained it, it was actually sitting right there on the
>> > Internet, of all things. A colleague of mine, through a Max Gardner’s
>> > Bankruptcy Boot Camp, which I am a member, an active member, gave it
>> to me
>> > and said, "Hey, I found this online, and I know you’re doing a lot of
>> > Wells Fargo cases. Maybe you can use this."
>> >
>> > Reading it, my jaw just dropped. As I see it, it’s clearly outlining
>> > procedures, not just for the $12-an-hour robo-signers that we’ve heard
>> > about all these years, but for the lawyers, who need to be held
>> > accountable to a much higher degree. It’s the manual for the lawyers
>> to
>> > actually fabricate documents, as I see it, and request that documents
>> that
>> > are lacking be fabricated by Wells Fargo. It’s absolutely appalling.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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