Florida AG Tags LPS, Docx With Subpoenas Ordering Firms To Fork Over Foreclosure Documents, Vendor Contracts As State Robosigner Probe Expands

Bloomberg News reports:

• Lender Processing Services Inc. and Docx LLC, affiliated companies [and connected with Fidelity National Financial, Inc.] providing mortgage-processing services to lenders, were subpoenaed by the office of Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum as part of its investigation into possible foreclosure-document fraud. The state told the Jacksonville, Florida-based companies to hand over any network agreements with law firms having offices located in the state, according to the subpoena.

• They must also turn over any documentation that allowed employee Linda Green [go here for even more on Linda Green] to sign documents on behalf of vice presidents of Wells Fargo, American Home Mortgage Servicing and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., the national mortgage electronic record-keeping system, according to the subpoena.

• The companies were ordered to provide any contracts for payments to and from four Florida law firms already under investigation, and any communications on arrangements for backdating or otherwise altering court documents used in property transactions.(1)

For more, see Florida Subpoenas Records of Foreclosure Companies.

Go here for the Florida AG's subpoena.

Thanks to Deontos .is for the heads up on the story.

(1) See also Firedoglake: Florida Foreclosure Employees Had Better Protect Themselves, which adds:

• They want documents showing that Korell Harp, Jessica Ohde, Pat Kingston, Christina Huang, and Tywanna Thomas had authority to sign “in any capacity for any lender and/or servicing company.” They want a list of employees, identifying those who provide notary services. And they want policy and procedure manuals and training materials related to the business of DOCX.

Go here for the DOCX document "fabrication" price list for a variety of foreclosure documents.