Unpaid taxes by big banks using robo-signed documents have foreclosed properties fraudulently, impacting the county budget for police, fire and education services.Big Banks must prove they own the note/mortgage according to AB1602 and SB 1470, laws effective on 1/1/13. Fraudulent foreclosures must be reported to the CA Attorney General by the Recorder.

SINCE 2011 WE HAVE UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO MODIFY OUR LOAN THROUGH WELLS FARGO. THE INVESTOR IS GOLDMAN SACHS. THE FIRST TWO TIMES WE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH INCOME BUT WE NOW BOTH HAVE FULL TIME JOBS AND ARE ABLE TO AFFORD OUR MORTGAGE PAYMENT BUT THE INVESTOR IS STILL NOT WILLING TO WORK WITH US. THERE IS A FORECLOSURE SALE DATE OF MAY 20, 2013. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO URGE THE INVESTOR TO POSTPONE THE SALE DATE AND GIVE US A PERMANENT SOLUTIONS TO HELP US KEEP OUR HOME.

When my fiancé and I first met it was love at first sight. We started dating, and haven’t left each others' side since. A couple years into our relationship we had our son. I promised him and his mother that they would never have to worry. I would always be there to provide for and take care of them. A short while later, we decided that we were growing out of our apartment and bought our first home. This home. At the time, it was a deal for the neighborhood it was in, but it was in need of a lot of updating. Nothing fancy, just a cozy three bedroom ranch with a nice backyard. It was perfect for our family. Just 18 short months, many thousands of dollars, and hours of time put into updating the house, the economy crashed. Home values went down, and the mortgage on our perfect fixer-upper was now underwater. Not long after that, the company that I worked for started to feel the crash. First my hours were cut, and then I was told that the economy and lack of customers were forcing them to lay off employees including me. Like many in Michigan, we were hit hard by the economic crisis, and have yet to pull out lives and finances out. Soon, we started to fall behind on our mortgage payments. Bank of America representatives called to try and find out why we were falling behind, and I explained our situation. I gave them all my income and expense information, and had hope as they claimed I was being reviewed for a modification. Weeks went by and then months as we waited to hear back. There were dozens of phone calls in both directions. Each Bank of America representative I spoke to gave me a different piece of advice or information. I was told by one rep to miss 5 months of payments on my mortgage, only to be told later by another one that to reinstate my loan, I needed to pay the equivalent of 5 payments at once. They suggested I get a roommate to add to my income, which I did, only to be told I still didn't meet the criteria. For 2 years the bank told us that a short sale wasn't an option because it was too close to the sale date. The only option they gave us was foreclosure. The foreclosure process began in January 2010, and after many sale dates set and cancelled, our home was actually sold in June of 2012. The bank never notified us of the sale, and we didn't find out about it until the bank's attorney sent us a letter that the 6 month window to protest the sale had ended. We now have days until we are officially homeless. We haven't been able to find a suitable apartment or rent a property to move to, and are still bewildered by how little regard was given to us through this process. We are a hard working family, always willing to go above and beyond to try and help others, yet Bank of America didn’t seem to see a need to try and work out any agreement with us. Please sign our petition. We are only asking the bank to rescind the foreclosure and come to the negotiating table for a real attempt to work this out. Thank you for taking the time to help my family Michael Benthin

We bought our home in Whittier, CA in 2002. The financial hardships for our family of five first began in 2009. The company my husband worked for was downsizing, and he was laid off. He was able to find a new job in 2010, but in a sub-driver position averaging less than 30 hours per month. Soon after that I lost my job as well, and was unable to find a new one that paid the same amount as my previous position. We tried hard to make ends meet for as long as possible. In 2011, when we could no longer make the mortgage payments for our home in California, my husband and I both cashed out our 401K retirement plans in order to stay current. In November of that year, my husband was offered a new position making significantly less money per hour. We were left with no other options- he needed a full time position, so he took the job. By 2012, when it finally became clear that we were underemployed, we contacted Bank of America to try and obtain a loan modification. We've been getting the runaround from the bank ever since. We have sent in four different loan modification packages, hopeful for a solution each time, only to be let down or asked to start the process all over again. Each time we felt like we were getting somewhere, we were assigned a new representative by Bank of America, putting us right back where we started. Our home means stability for our three children. Our oldest daughter is now working and contributing towards the mortgage. With three incomes in our household we are able to make our payments, but we need Bank of America to approve an affordable loan modification. We work hard and are asking Bank of America to work with us to keep our family together in the only home our three kids have ever known.

Romney's Bain DE law firm (MNAT) handled the merger of Romney's The Learning Co with Mattel in 1999. Meanwhile, MNAT's other client (Goldman Sachs) was taking eToys public in 1999 (where the stock soared to $85; but eToys received less than $20). To make sure that various State, Federal & SEC frauds were NOT investigate/prosecuted. MNAT lied to become eToys bankruptcy attorney and Paul Traub (who worked with Romney/ Michael Glazer at Stage Stores) lied to become eToys Creditors attorney. In 2005, MNAT & Traub confessed lying under oath to a chief federal justice and placing Barry Gold (who was also with Romney/Glazer at Stage Stores) - in as CEO of eToys. Then eToys was sold (almost for Free) to Bain/ Kay Bee (CEO Glazer). When Glazer paid himself $18 million and Bain $83 million before filing bankruptcy of Kay Bee - MNAT represents Bain and Traub asked to be the prosecutor. At the same time, MNAT & Barry Gold nominated Paul Traub's firm to prosecute Goldman Sachs in the N.Y. Supreme Ct. case 601805/2002. They can get away with all of this because - on August 2, 2001 - an MNAT law firm partner (Colm Connolly) became the Delaware United States Attorney who then covered up the crimes.

yea was electrocuted on the job was force to use fmla and own insurance head boss told me if I use worker comp would be fired coming back on light duty for any reason I did what they asked lost job lost insurance use own money for deductables now lost wife and loseing house

Chase cost me almost $10,000 by their gaming of the HAMP program.

The registered nurses of the NNOC (National Nurses Organizing Committee) have purposed a 1% tax on all Wallstreet transactions to generate revenue for needed programs that will benefit all Americans. Since Wallstreet greed caused the near- collapse of the global economy and since they have now been making out like bandits-it is way past time to hold them accountable for giving back a small, small portion of the obscene profits they make (often) to the detriment of Main Street.

Introduced in 1949 by the FCC, The Fairness Doctrine required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a way that was honest, equitable and balanced. In 1969 it was upheld by an 8-0 vote by the Supreme Court. Since it was repealed under President Reagan in 1985, we have had a proliferation of partisan talk radio, Fox News and the most partisan government of my lifetime. Reinstating the act could be key to bringing sanity back to our politics.

The gridlock in both the House and Senate seems to be controlled by Deep Pockets, not the majority opinion of the representative's constituency. I don't want to wait until November for a change...besides, I approve of how my representatives are voting. I want the gridlock to stop now and the representatives to follow the will of the people who have elected them in good faith.

More work and less pay? No way. But Reps. Eric Cantor and John Boehner and other corporate bought-and-paid-for politicians want to change that. Cantor has prioritized legislation—H.R. 1406—that would let corporate CEOs get out of their legal obligation to pay cash overtime to workers and replace it with the "promise" of time off in the future. If this bill passes, it would change decades of labor law that have protected the 40-hour workweek and fair pay for workers. Workers who work overtime would be paid nothing and be given the “promise” of time off in the future—whenever the boss gives permission to take it, of course. A lot of workers depend on the extra money they get from “time-and-a-half” overtime pay just to make ends meet. This proposal would take that extra money away, and workers who take “time off” would never see a bump in their paycheck. This bill also would undermine the 40-hour workweek by making it cheaper for CEOs to demand long hours from employees. Boehner, Cantor and other right-wing legislators want you to think this is about “flexibility” for workers. But the only people who’d get flexibility from this legislation would be bosses, not employees. Corporations already have the “flexibility” to give time off whenever they want. What they would gain through this bill is the “flexibility” to pay nothing for overtime work, and then tell workers to “take off” when business is slow. Don’t let Boehner, Cantor and our corporate politicians erode fair pay and the 40-hour workweek. Sign the petition to Congress NOW.

This bill would create an entirely new, transparent and ungameable set of capital rules for the nation's banks. It requires banks to hold a significant amount of capital in a rainy day fund. In addition: 1) bankers won't be able to manipulate rating agencies; 2) off-balance sheet assets, derivatives and liabilities must be included in stating a bank's assets; 3) Megabanks will be forced to increase their capital or bring down their size. Help Brown & Vitter wage war on the financial machine (lobbyists) to move the bill forward.