The Wall Street Journal lashed out at Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on Wednesday in their editorial section for her suit against the big banks and their foreclosure practices.

The piece was ripe with misinformation and the usual sucking up we've come to expect from...

By now almost everyone has heard about Bank of America's new five dollar charge for using a debit card. It should come as no surprise that the banks would spin it as the fault of the Durbin rule that regulates excessive charges, but make no mistake those charges...

John O'Brien, Registry of Deeds for Southern Essex County in Massachusetts is asking that Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General, step down. Miller is the lead AG in the controversial settlement with the big banks on mortgage servicing fraud.

In his most recent obscene act Miller kicked Attorney General...

There are some rumblings that the Department of Justice is putting the pressure on state attorneys general to sign onto the controversial $20 billion mortgage settlement deal this week that could release banks from legal claims in state investigations and law suits.

Monday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha...

We live under the unfortunate false assumption that the money we make and put in the bank is ours. That we can access it at any time and that we have a right to it. After all this is America. Once upon a time, in America, the money you put...

Registers, registrars and recorders from across the country gathered in Atlantic City on Tuesday for the Annual Conference of The International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers (IACREOT).

Several of those attending made the trip specifically to see Massachusetts Register John O'Brien's presentation on his findings of massive...

With the exception of Elizabeth Warren, there are very few heroes fighting for the little guy when it comes to consumer rights and mortgage malpractice. Tom Miller, the Iowa Attorney General, had a brief moment of righteous advocacy until he received $261,445 in campaign contributions from out-of-state law firms...

On Friday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a controversial decision by Land Court Judge Keith C. Long, who ruled in the case of two Springfield, MA homeowners that the foreclosures were invalid because the mortgages were not officially recorded as being owned by the foreclosing banks, US Bancorp and...

About a week ago, John O'Brien, Register of Deeds in Essex County Massachusetts, sent a letter to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley asking that she look into whether MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.) failed to pay legally required recording fees in Massachusetts when a MERS-mortgage is assigned to another...

I know that even as I write this, no amount of proof or testimony from experts will stop seemingly sanctimonious, self-righteous ignoramuses from making comments about deadbeat homeowners who caused the entire economic meltdown because they simply didn't want to pay their bills.

I recently wrote a piece calling attention...

Over the past few weeks many of us with skin in the game have watched as the media finally started covering the foreclosure fiasco. Some homeowner activists saw it as the beginning of a long string of investigative reporting. The rest of us knew that it was only a matter...

Once again, as another harebrained scheme unravels, the swinging dicks of Wall Street manage to appear impervious to reality and completely immune to the truth.

Nearly every Attorney General in the country is now investigating what was not just simply serial fraud but a no-holds-barred crime spree affecting millions of mortgages...

There's a huge buzz out there among homeowner activists who are feeling vindicated for the hard work they've done over the past couple of years and in many cases even longer. The recent news inundating the headlines of blatant fraud on the part of lenders and servicers has offered proof...

Last April, when I visited the Treasury, I told the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Diana Farrell, that the reports treasury was putting up on their web site touting the success of HAMP were crap. I said that in front of thirty people in a Treasury briefing...

Massachusetts is once again leading the pack in protecting consumers by passing legislation to protect families from getting thrown out of their homes. "An Act to Stabilize Neighborhoods" has been two years in the making and was sponsored by Senator Susan C. Tucker, an Andover, MA Democrat. She filed...

The more stories we get from homeowners at shamethebanks.org and the more people I talk to about how they're losing their homes, the more I start to believe that banks and servicers are spending more time figuring out how to take homes than they are on how to save...

According to a recent article in HuffPo by Shahien Nasiripour, "Treasury claims that Fannie Mae, which administers its Home Affordable Modification Program, screwed up. As a consequence, the public can no longer tell whether homeowners with HAMP modifications ... are being placed in sustainable mortgages."

According to the...

When you're a bank and the facts aren't on your side, it's apparently perfectly acceptable to just lie.

No side-stepping, no spin, no double talk. Just flat out lie as if no one will ever check your facts or assume that by the time they do it'll all have...

Now that Scott Brown has managed to score the same backroom deals he opposed during his campaign run for Senator of Massachusetts he's threatening to vote against the financial reform bill he's said he was for. Sound confusing? It really isn't when you consider Brown is among the top...

Last month I wrote a piece on ShametheBanks and in HuffPost about an amendment sponsored by Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) The amendment to the Financial Reform Bill would create an Office of Homeowner Advocate to assist homeowners who have been...