60 Minutes' Report Triggers Statewide Search For Bogus, Foreclosure-Related Docs Littering Deed Registries Throughout MI; Criminal Complaint Expected

WILX-TV Channel 10 reports:

• [I]n the last few days, counties across Michigan have started searching for possible forged mortgage documents. So far, Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, and Hillsdale Counties have found questionable documents signed by Linda Green and others. Jackson County will start it's search this week.
• "We're only the tip of the iceberg with this problem. We're probably going to see across the country the same exact thing going on," said [Ingham County's Register of Deeds Curtis] Hertel.

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• The register of deeds in several counties say it's difficult to locate and contact victimized homeowners of this fraud. They recommend going to your county's register of deeds website and looking at your mortgage assignment document. If you find the company "Docx" or signatures with "Linda Green" or "Tywanna Thomas" on that document--- you may be a victim.(1)
• The Michigan Association of Register of Deeds plans to file a criminal complaint with the Michigan Attorney General's office in two weeks.

For the story, see Suspected Forged Mortgage Documents Found in Mid-Michigan.

See also:

Lansing State Journal: Some Lansing-area foreclosure papers may be fraudulent (Ingham official says bank's signature on 60 documents fake):

• The real Linda Green works for neither company. She was an employee of Docx,(2) a company hired by several major financial institutions to execute mortgage-related documents, a company that, according to a recent report by 60 Minutes,(3) hired workers to do nothing more than sit and sign those documents eight hours a day. In most cases, the names they signed weren't their own.
• "It's almost embarrassing that they thought they could get away with this," Hertel said. Following the 60 Minutes report, he and many other registers of deeds in Michigan went searching for mortgage assignments they'd received from Docx. Hertel found 60. Eaton County found 40, Clinton 14.
• "In Michigan, filing a fraudulent document in my office is a 14-year felony," Hertel said. He's already spoken with the state police and county prosecutor. Next month, when other counties have completed their searches, the plan is to go to the state attorney general.

WLNS-TV Channel 6: Officials Investigating Foreclosure Fraud In Ingham County:

• The hunt for foreclosure fraud is now underway in Jackson County. [...] It only took 15 minutes to find the same phony signatures that are popping up on documents all over the country.
• It all started with a recent 60 Minutes piece that highlighted the scam where some big banks are faking forms to speed up the foreclosure process. One by one officials are finding thee documents in Jackson County.

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(1) See Mortgage Loan Servicing's 'Dirty Dozen' for a partial list of other notorious, multiple corporate hat-wearing vice-presidents and their confederates littering deed registries and courtrooms throughout the country with robosigned, foreclosure-related documents in efforts to illegally repossess homes.

(2) For more on Docx, see LPS Shuts Down Alleged Bogus Foreclosure Document "Manufacturing" Racket; Pumped Out Over A Million Mortgage Assignments In Last 2 Years.

(3) See CBS' '60 Minutes' On Foreclosure Fraud - 'The Many Faces (& Signatures) Of Linda Green'.