All posts tagged "#AuditTexas"
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2.4KAppellate CircuitThe Nomination of Fifth Circuit Judge and Former Twitter Don – Judge Don Willett
Judge Don Willett: It is never appropriate for lower courts to depart from controlling Supreme Court precedent. If confirmed, I will follow...
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1.5KCFPBThe Momentum Builds as NY Federal District Court joins Circuit Appellate Courts in Staying Case(s) while CFPB and Dodd-Frank Act Under Microscope
On October 15th, 2019, a visionary District Court judge in New York has stayed a case against a collection law firm that...
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2.1KCFPBSecond Circuit Agree to Stay CFPB Case in Light of US Supreme Court Selia Law Case
On Nov. 5th, 2019 the Second Circuit entered an order adjourning the oral argument that was set for November 21, 2019. The...
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2.8KAppellate CircuitNinth Circuit First to Stay CFPB Case in Light of Supreme Court Agreeing to Review Selia Law Case
On October 21st, 2019, the Ninth Circuit issued an order withdrawing submission of the appeal and staying all further proceedings until the...
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4.6KNewsAustin-area attorney Jamie Balagia, known as “The DWI Dude” convicted of fleecing Colombian Drug Lords
This defendant and his group were running a scam on drug dealers—some of the biggest drug dealers in the world, said U.S....
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1.7KNewsTexas Judges Agree, Texans Are Accessing Courts Responsibly and Jury Trial Awards are Very Fair.
When systems fail, we must preserve access to our justice system. When people mistakenly believe most lawsuits are meritless, consumers slowly lose the...
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4.3KDebt CollectorWilliam Erbey of Ocwen Altisource Attacks PIMCO and Blackrock (Who Happen to Be a Major Shareholder in Ocwen Stock)
BlackRock said: The suit is really a misconceived attempt at reputation recovery by William Erbey [who is] the disgraced founder and former...
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2.4KEditors ChoiceIf You’re Looking for Honest Judge[s] and an Attorney General that is Consumer Focused, Maine has Our Vote in 2019 #AuditTexas #OCWEN
The Bureau finds that OCWEN Loan Servicing [OLS] had no authority to execute documents as an Attorney in Fact for legal entities...
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2.3KCFPBThe Real Reason Why the CFPB is Being Dismantled is Political. To Make It Easier For Financial Services Companies, Banks and Non-Banks to Rip Off American Consumers
A report out this week from the watchdog group Allied Progress showing more than half the members appointed to a separate 12-person...
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Fifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: Twitter is a Cesspool and an Aggregator of Trollery and Vitriol but I Leveraged it to Get to Where I am Today.
Willett: As a state judge campaigning for office, it was political malpractice not to leverage social media smartly. I loved demystifying &...
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2.0KFifth CircuitAre You Qualified? Shields and Swords are Being Raised in the Roman-American Colosseum
This atextual, ahistorical doctrine - which shields public officials from liability, even when they break the law - was essentially invented out...
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2.2KAppellate Circuit
Fifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: § 1927 sanctions imposed against Attorney(s) for advancing a meritless, immunity-barred claim against Judge are Reasonable
Since 1980, federal courts have awarded stiff sanctions under modern § 1927 to punish the wrongful prolongation of litigation. Here, Morgan persistently...
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2.2KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Affirm Lengthy Jail Sentence for “Sophisticated” Tax Fraud Conviction against a Tax Preparer. The Same Cannot Be Said When Banks Commit Fraud. Not One Banker Went to Jail in Texas
The Government’s first sample of returns estimated a $4,805,820.50 tax loss. To arrive at this figure, the Government reviewed 100 income tax...
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2.0KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Toss WhistleBlower’s Case Against Banks (of Course) Citing Lack of Evidence and the Complainant is Not the “Original Source”
Edward Hendrickson, a former fraud investigator in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General, alleged 15 banks knowingly...
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2.0K2NewsTexas Spent over $5m for the 2019 Inauguration Festivities But No One Has Any Receipts
We have conducted a thorough search, Gov. Abbott’s campaign director, said. The 2019 Texas Inaugural Committee has no responsive records.
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1.4KForeclosuresHB1470 Passed to Expedite Foreclosures on Texas Homeowners
HB1470 was passed in Sept 2017, which is an Act relating to the public sale of real property under a power of...
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1.4KMortgage ServicersAbbott Vetoes Mortgage Servicers Accountability – SB830
SB 830 - Relating to the provision of accounting statements by mortgage servicers for certain loans secured by a lien on residential...
