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Posted on 29 March 2012.
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Posted on 12 March 2012.
H/T Abigail – If you had any doubts about whether ‘your’ federal gov’t works for you or BofA, read Yves Smith’s latest:
One in a while, you can discern a linchpin lie on which other important lies hinge. We can point to quite a few in America: the notion of a permanent war on terror, which somehow justifies vitiating not just the Constitution, but even the Magna Carta, or the idea of an imperial executive branch.
Now the apparently-to-be-filed-in-court-today Federal/state attorneys general mortgage settlement is less consequential than matters of life and limb. But it still show the lengths to which the officialdom is willing to go to vitiate the law in order to get its way.
HUD Secretary Donovan, the propagandist in chief for the Federal/state mortgage pact, has claimed he has investor approval to do the mortgage modifications that are a significant portion of the value of the settlement. We’ll eventually see what is actually in the settlement, but the early PR was that “no less than $10 billion” of the $25 billion headline total was to come from principal reductions. Modifications of mortgages not owned by banks, meaning in securitized trusts, are counted only 50% and before Donovan realized he was committing a faux pas, he said he expected 85% of the mods to be from securitizations, so that means $17 billion.
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Posted on 27 February 2012.
Alison Frankel-
Way back in June, a day or so after Bank of America announced its proposed $8.5 billion settlement with Countrywide mortgage-backed securities investors, I wrote about the very peculiar vehicle through which the bank was seeking judicial approval of the arrangement. The settlement was filed by the Countrywide MBS trustee, Bank of New York Mellon, under Article 77 of the New York state code. Article 77, which allows a trustee to seek a judicial endorsement of trust-related decisions, is usually invoked in garden-variety trust disputes, not in an $8.5 billion deal affecting thousands of beneficiaries in 530 trusts. But the law offered distinct advantages for BofA, BNY Mellon, and the group of 22 institutional investors that negotiated the Countrywide MBS settlement. Under New York trust law, trustees have broad discretion to make decisions on behalf of the trusts they oversee. As long as the judge presiding over an Article 77 proceeding determines that the trustee has acted reasonably and hasn’t abused its discretion, the trustee’s decision gets a stamp of judicial approval. Anyone who disagrees with the trustee — and the banks and institutional investors that negotiated the BofA proposed settlement knew that there would be many investors who didn’t like it — bears the heavy burden of proving that the trustee acted outside the bounds of reason.
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Posted on 29 November 2011.
What a team!
HW-
Attorneys General for Delaware and New York secured permission from a U.S. District Judge to intervene in court proceedings discussing the Bank of New York Mellon (BK: 18.03 -0.33%) $8.5 billion settlement with Bank of America (BAC: 5.045 -3.90%) over toxic mortgage-backed securities.
The AGs are eager to get a presence in the proceedings, so they can represent the interests of the investing public in their respective states before a final deal is reached. Admission to the process gives the AGs a chance to hear where talks are going and an opportunity to object to provisions of the deal.
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
“This action concerns far more than the financial interests of a few sophisticated investors,” Pauley wrote. “And the intervention of the State AGs in this action will protect the interests of absent investors.”
WSJ-
The federal judge presiding over the landmark $8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and major investors in mortgage-backed securities has allowed the state attorneys general of New York and Delaware to intervene in the case.
In a ruling dated Friday, Judge William H. Pauley agreed with the state lawmakers that the massive settlement carries implications for the nation’s financial markets, not just the investors who will be impacted by the pact.
“This action concerns far more than the financial interests of a few sophisticated investors,” Pauley wrote. “And the intervention of the State AGs in this action will protect the interests of absent investors.”
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Posted on 21 October 2011.
REUTERS-
The key paragraph in Manhattan federal judge William Pauley III‘s 21-page ruling Wednesday in Bank of America’s proposed $8.5 billion settlement with Countrywide mortgage-backed-securities investors is the last one.
“The settlement agreement at issue here implicates core federal interests in the integrity of nationally chartered banks and the vitality of the national securities markets,” Pauley wrote. “A controversy touching on these paramount federal interests should proceed in federal court.”
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Posted on 30 September 2011.
Thomson Reuters News & Insight-
When New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman sued Bank of New York Mellon in August, the AG asserted that the Countrywide mortgage-backed securitization trustee had breached its duty to MBS investors. “As trustee, BNYM owed and owes a fiduciary duty of undivided loyalty,” said the AG’s suit, which was filed as a counterclaim in BNY Mellon’s case seeking approval of the proposed $8.5 billion Bank of America settlement with MBS investors. “[BNYM] breached that duty to [investors’] detriment and disadvantage, by failing to notify them of issues regarding the quality of loans underlying their securities.”
But according to BNY Mellon, it had no such duty.
The bank’s lawyers at Mayer Brown and Dechert filed a 14-page brief this week outlining its interpretation of the responsibilities of an MBS securitization trustee. The filing came at the direction of Manhattan federal Judge William Pauley, who’s deciding whether the BofA MBS settlement should be heard in state court, where BNY Mellon filed it, or in federal court, where key objectors to the proposed settlement want it to proceed. Pauley was concerned with the “securities exception” to the Class Action Fairness Act, which could end up guiding his decision on the forum question. For BNY Mellon, however, any discussion of its trustee responsibilities is fraught with danger. It’s already facing the New York AG’s claims, and several other state attorneys general have threatened similar actions. MBS investors, meanwhile, are pushing BNY Mellon (and other securitization trustees) to bring put-back claims, with the implied threat that investors will take action against trustees unless they do.
[Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
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Posted on 15 September 2011.
If your trust is listed in the initial Notice of Petition to Intervene complaint, I highly recommend you go to the court house and make sure your last page to the “Note”, which was filed is still there :)’
REUTERS-
On Wednesday night, Grais & Ellsworth filed a 29-page brief laying out its arguments for why Bank of America’s proposed $8.5 billion settlement with Countrywide mortgage-backed securities investors belongs in federal court, not in New York state court, where Bank of New York Mellon, as Countrywide MBS trustee, filed it. I’ll talk about Grais’s assertions in a moment, but first, I want to explain why the jurisdictional question is so crucial to the ultimate fate of BofA’s proposed deal. Two transcripts tell that tale.
BNY Mellon, you’ll recall, used a highly unusual device when it asked for court approval of the proposed $8.5 billion settlement in late June. The bank filed the case as an Article 77 proceeding in New York state supreme court, taking advantage of a state law that permits trustees to seek a judge’s endorsement of their decisions. Using Article 77 was a deliberate tactic by BNY Mellon, BofA, and the 22 institutional investors who support the settlement. The lawyers who put together the deal considered and rejected other possible vehicles for court approval, but decided that Article 77 was the fastest, cleanest way to resolve claims involving 530 separate trusts. The provision, which is usually invoked in garden-variety trust cases, gives broad discretion to trustees, who are generally assumed to be acting in the best interests of trust beneficiaries.
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
Abigail C. Field-
The $8.5 billion settlement that Bank of New York and Bank of America hope will resolve all (or almost all) mortgage backed securities claims between them has faced a lot of opposition. The attorneys general of New York and Delaware oppose the deal, as do various investors not involved in the deal negotiations. Now a new, completely different type of opposition has surfaced: homeowners whose loans are funding the securities involved in the BNY-BofA settlement.
On Tuesday, four homeowners whose loans were securitized into trusts in the settlement both sued to block the settlement in federal court and asked the New York State Court judge weighing the settlement for permission to intervene on behalf of all the borrowers whose loans are in the trusts and give the court their perspective on the BNY-BofA settlement.
Homeowners Sue to Stop the $8.5 Billion BofA-BoNY Settlement
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Posted on 30 August 2011.
NYTIMES-
The legal onslaught continues for Bank of America.
On Tuesday, several homeowners filed suit in the Federal District Court in Manhattan seeking to block a proposed $8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America and major mortgage investors including BlackRock, Pimco and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The suit claims that the deal fails to address widespread servicing problems and would actually speed up foreclosures.
It’s the latest opposition to the $8.5 billion settlement, which was hammered out in June by Bank of America, 22 large investors in soured mortgage-backed securities and Bank of New York Mellon, the trustee for those securities. Smaller investors have already filed legal actions opposing the deal, as has the New York state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.
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Posted on 30 August 2011.
Absolute Must Read…
Naked Capitalism-
A lot of people have asked why New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is going after the banks as aggressively as he is. It’s almost unbelievable that one lone elected official, who happens to have powerful legal tools at his disposal, is doing something that no one with any serious degree of power has done. So what is the secret? What kind of machinations is he undertaking that no one else has been able to do?
I’ve known Schneiderman for a few years, back when he was a state Senator working to reform the Rockefeller drug laws. And my answer to this question is pretty simple. He wants to. That’s it. Eric Schneiderman is investigating the banks because he thinks it’s the right thing to do. So he’s doing it. This guy has thought about his politics. He wrote an article about how he sees politics in 2008 in the Nation, and in his inaugural speech as NY AG he talked about the need to restore faith in both public and private institutions. Free will still counts for something, apparently.
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Posted on 29 August 2011.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman may will go down in history as the most important public official in reforming the corrupt financial system!!
HuffPO-
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman may go down in history as the most important public official in reforming the corrupt financial system that caused the great Financial Crisis of 2008 and holding the perps responsible — if he can hold out against pressure from Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and the Obama administration to give Wall Street a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
Eric Schneiderman has played a key role in the investigation of foreclosure fraud and robo-signing by 50 state attorneys general against JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Ally Bank. Reportedly, most of of the attorneys general — with the support of the Obama administration — are advocating a $20 billion settlement with the banks (less than a year’s worth of Wall Street’s bonus pool) in exchange for broad immunity from future investigations and prosecutions, not only of illegal foreclosures but of a wide range of fraudulent activity in connection with mortgage securitization over the past decade.
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Posted on 29 August 2011.
There will be NO settlement!
Via Bloomberg–
The FDIC objected to Bank of America Corp. (BAC)’s proposed mortgage-bond settlement.
Filing Courtesy of Naked Capitalism & Webber3292
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Posted on 09 August 2011.
2 words
“BANKERS TRUST”
Reality Check-
With one court filing, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has transformed the mortgage backed securities liability landscape. By intervening and opposing the Bank of America/BNY global settlement of mortgage backed securities claims, Schneiderman served notice to the big banks that they will not be able to cut self-serving deals to escape liability to investors. By suing Bank of New York for fraud at the same time, he reminded banks that they face liabilities for their actions as trustee (as Yves Smith has been pointing out at Naked Capitalism for some time now.) In fact, given that everything Schneiderman alleged about BNY’s actions as trustee (other than the deal with BofA) could be said about Deustche Bank, US Bank, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase (all as Trustee), are those suits coming?
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Posted on 04 August 2011.
In the matter of the application of
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (as Trustee under various Pooling and
Servicing Agreements and Indenture Trustee under various Indentures),
Petitioner Counter-Defendant,
-and-
BlackRock Financial Management Inc. (intervenor), Kore Advisors, L.P.
(intervenor), Maiden Lane, LLC (intervenor), Maiden Lane II, LLC (intervenor),
Maiden Lane III, LLC (intervenor), Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
(intervenor), Trust Company of the West and affiliated companies controlled by
The TCW Group, Inc. (intervenor), Neuberger Berman Europe Limited
(intervenor), Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (intervenor),
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (intervenor), Teachers Insurance and
Annuity Association of America (intervenor), Invesco Advisers, Inc.
(intervenor), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (intervenor), Landesbank Baden-
Wuerttemberg (intervenor), LBBW Asset Management (Ireland) plc, Dublin
(intervenor), ING Bank fsb (intervenor), ING Capital LLC (intervenor), ING
Investment Management LLC (intervenor), New York Life Investment
Management LLC (intervenor), Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and its
affiliated companies (intervenor), AEGON USA Investment Management LLC,
authorized signatory for Transamerica Life Insurance Company, AEGON
Financial Assurance Ireland Limited, Transamerica Life International (Bermuda)
Ltd., Monumental Life Insurance Company, Transamerica Advisors Life
Insurance Company, AEGON Global Institutional Markets, plc, LIICA Re II,
Inc., Pine Falls Re, Inc., Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company,
Stonebridge Life Insurance Company, and Western Reserve Life Assurance Co.
of Ohio (intervenor), Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (intervenor),
Bayerische Landesbank (intervenor), Prudential Investment Management, Inc.
(intervenor), and Western Asset Management Company (intervenor),
Petitioners,
-against-
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK by ERIC T.
SCHNEIDERMAN, Attorney General of the State of New York,
Intervenor Counter-Plaintiff,
for an order pursuant to CPLR § 7701 seeking judicial instructions and approval
of a proposed settlement.
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