By Sam Smith
If you were to sign a false legal document, the courts and police would not call it “flawed paperwork.” But that’s the term the Associated Press is using about the foreclosure situation with similar soft pedaling by other major media. In fact, this is potentially one of the largest scandals of recent times. Fortunately, attorneys generals in more than three dozen states are about to launch investigations into mass falsification of legal statements by the nation’s banks. You can get a sense of just how serious this is from the fact that Bank of America, JP Morgan and PNC have stopped their foreclosures in states where judges have to approve the action. Despite what the AP says, this isn’t about “flawed paperwork;” it’s about a potential major criminal scandal.
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