Friday, July 01, 2011

Who Are Bank Of America's Newest Robo-Signers?

From Fraud Digest:
  • Who are Bank of America's newest robo-signers? For several years, BOA turned to its subsidiary, BAC Home Loans Servicing, in Collin County, Texas, whenever mortgage assignments were needed in foreclosures. This office, formerly Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, produced hundreds of thousands of assignments, including most all of the assignments to Countrywide CWABS and CWALT trusts.


  • In recent months, however, BOA has turned to its office in Ventura County, California, as the Collin County, TX, signers have become too well known. These assignments are made primarily for CWALT and CWABS trusts that closed in 2005, 2006 and 2007.


  • These assignments claim to assign both the mortgages and the notes to the trusts. On each of these assignments, MERS is stated to be the HOLDER of the mortgage.

Source: Who are Bank of America's newest robo-signers?

(1) Who are the newest signers - who use MERS titles to assign mortgages TO BAC while actually working FOR BAC - signing as if they were MERS officers for dozens of different companies? According to Fraud Digest, The names appearing most often include:

  • Ricki Aguilar, Malik Basurto, Youda Crain, Diana DeAvila, Edward Gallegos, Christopher Herrara, Bud Kamyabi, Tina LeRaybaud, Jane Martorana, Martha Munoz, Srbui Muradyan, Debbie Nieblas, Yomari Quintanilla, Luis Roldan, Miguel Romero, Cynthia Santos, Swarupa Slee.

According to Fraud Digest, these individuals, in 2011, have signed as MERS officers for the following mortgage companies and banks, including many that no longer existed in 2011:

  • Aegis Wholesale Corporation, American Brokers Conduit, America's Wholesale Lender, Amnet Mortgage, Ampro Mortgage, Countrywide Bank FSB, Decision One Mortgage Company, First Choice Funding Inc., First Interstate Financial Corp., First National Bank of Arizona, Market Street Mortgage Corp., M/I Financial Corp., Millenia Funding Corporation, MortgageIt, One Mortgage Company, LLC, Pinnacle Direct Funding Corp., Pulte Mortgage, Quicken Loans, Universal American Mortgage Company, Service Mortgage Underwriters, Inc., Wilmington Finance, Inc.

CoreLogic in Chapin, South Carolina, is the keeper of these documents, and Bank of New York Mellon is the trustee for most of the CWABS and CWALT trusts that use these BAC documents, according to Fraud Digest.