Posted March 19, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.
FORT MYERS — The modern foreclosure case resembles a jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces missing: The picture may come through when put together, but it’s incomplete.
With most local foreclosures cases, the picture is clear enough — the homeowner fell behind on the mortgage, stopped paying and now owes someone his or her home.
Yet as state and federal investigators increasingly focus on those missing pieces — misplaced or fraudulent paperwork — critics say the Lee Circuit Court system is shirking its responsibility to do the same, instead pushing cases forward to reduce a massive case backlog.
I don’t understand why the ACLU dosent have a problem with non-judical states where the homeowner does not get a chance to question the forecloseure? Without money and an attorney.. If you don’t have the money, the paperwork can be flawed to the hilt. No judge even peeks at it. And there we have fRAUD.