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Introduction to a lawsuit we are filing alleging notary fraud, forgery and wrongful foreclosure

By
Real Estate Attorney with The Law Offices of Steven C. Vondran, P.C. Attorney at Law

          This case involves objectively verifiable proof of fraud and forgery in the recorded chain of title in regard to critical foreclosure documents such as the Assignment of the Deed of Trust, and the Substitution of Trustee.  Under California law, these documents must be duly acknowledged and recorded in order to be deemed valid foreclosure documents supporting the right to exercise the private power of sale, and to conduct a non-judicial foreclosure sale.

       This case also involves two notaries (recently added as parties to this action) who REFUSE TO PRODUCE THEIR NOTARY TRANSACTION LOGS, as required by notary laws, and who are active participants and co-conspirators in the effort to defraud Plaintiff’s and to rush them to foreclosure without regard to the Notary Laws, or the California Foreclosure Laws which must be strictly followed, without fraud, deceit, or other unscrupulous action.  These notaries were never present to verify identification of parties signing foreclosure documents, they did not witness signatures or administer oaths and they failed to perform legally required notarial acts.  Instead, their notary stamps were literally offered up for lease which is why they are now “lawyering-up” instead of producing their notary transaction logs as required by law.

        This case also involves forged signatures made by unknown third party DOE Defendants who sign documents without reviewing them, and without any legal authority to sign the documents they are asked to sign.  Fraudulent and forged documents are VOID ab initio and there is no requirement to tender the balance of the loan to challenge acts that violate both civil and criminal statutes of the State of California.   The evidence has been duly attached and noted and there is an elephant in the room.  Defendant seeks to sweep it under the rug, while Plaintiff seeks to set aside the foreclosure sale that was not only a product of fraud but was sanctioned, authorized, ratified, approved, aided, abetted, and encouraged, by not only the Foreclosure Trustee, (Quality Loan Service), but also the Loan servicer for the securitized loan (previously Indymac Federal, and now OneWest bank), and the Trustee of the Securitized Loan trust that alleges to own and hold Plaintiff’s loan (Duetsche).

      Each of the Defendants have acted in concert (which is why one law firm normally represents all the Defendants in a foreclosure case) with the specific intent of inducing Plaintiff to challenge nothing; to assert no rights; to raise no stink; challenge no motions in the bankruptcy court; and to essentially “go quietly into the foreclosure night.”  Plaintiff’s relied on the notary stamps, the representations in the recorded chain of title documents, and the authenticity of recorded documents in believing the foreclosure process was being conducted to the letter of the law, (no reasonable person believes notarized documents must be challenged) and they suffered damages in the form of attorney fees, and other damages to be proven at trial, when seeking to rectify the fraud, and in asserting their legal rights to reverse and set-aside the wrongful foreclosure sale and demand that the process be re-done in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

         If the rule of law does not apply in foreclosure settings, then we should dispense with notary requirements and not demand any compliance with state foreclosure laws.  This of course would compel the conclusion that when foreclosure is involved, we become a nation of men, and not a nation of laws.  Plaintiff’s respectfully urge this Court to send a message to Defendants, and those similarly situated, that exercising the power of sale in California requires strict compliance with the law - without exception.

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CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE CASE CITATION SO YOU CAN TRACK THE LEGAL ARGUMENTS.

Anonymous
Nancy

Please add me to you case citation list.  I am one of the paralegals working with John Stuart/Kevin Bumstead. 

thank you

Feb 28, 2011 02:31 PM
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Anonymous
Allyn

Please add me to you case citation list also. I am involved in the same kind of case.

Thank you

Mar 01, 2011 02:50 AM
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Anonymous
Scott Christensen

We are currently in on the last leg of our court case....None of the judges have even considered the illegal notarization of the Substitution of Trustee.  I have copies of the illegal notarization and have found a couple more illegal notarizations done by my private equity lender on other Subsitution of Trustees on other people, by doing a brief search at the San Diego County Reorder's office.  I would like to added to the case that you are filing.  My lender is Security Trust Deed Services dba Peninsula Equity Funding, Inc. (servicing arm).  They use California Trustee Services, Inc.  (which is also their company). 

They have done this other people and have gotten away with it and the courts do not want to rule against servicers or lenders because they are also elected official and are bought and paid for by the banking establishment through campaign contributions.

Mar 30, 2011 04:26 PM
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Anonymous
Naziyr

Thank you for the information.  Please provide me the case citations as this element exist in my case.  Thank you

Apr 01, 2011 12:36 PM
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Anonymous
David Otto

Please send me the case caption - or even copies of your complaints please.  We're going to start convincing the judges over here in Nevada to follow the law.

May 07, 2011 08:03 PM
#11
Steve Vondran "Attorney Steve®
The Law Offices of Steven C. Vondran, P.C. - San Francisco, CA
Business, Real Estate, and Intellectual Property

Thank you everyone for the great posts and for your support!!!  I have been so busy I have not had time to comment on each of your posts (which I like to try to do).  When I get a free moment I will come back to this page.  Thank you again.  Steve Vondran

May 09, 2011 12:02 PM
Anonymous
Joan

Hello Steve,  It's good to know someone is out there advocating for the Homeowners.  Keep up the good work!  a Californian!

Jun 09, 2011 09:46 AM
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Anonymous
Ron Wolfson

I am a pro-se Plaintiff in AZ Superior Ct. at this time., suing B of A, Countrywide, BONY, etc. My foreclosure docs were robo-signed by ReconTrust and B of A. I caught 3 different signatures of the same gal.(Tiffany Wooten), the docs were signed in Tarrant County, Texas. The Judge granted me a TRO before the sale date, and B of A cancelled the foreclosure sale. So technically, I am not in foreclosure, it is unlikely but no guarentee yet that they will try and refile. After 6 months of Motion to Dismiss, Response, Reply, etc., the Judge threw all the Motions out, etc., and ordered me to submit an Amended Complaint, due August 31st. I am attacking. My Amended Complaint will have 2 basic Counts, that is Notary Fraud and Quiet Title.

I could use any help from anyone out there, to help me in my drafting this Amended Complaint, specifically if anyone has some cases I could refer to.

And Steve, can you please email me the case citation you mentioned to ask you for? that would help me.

God bless you all out there who are fighting to keep the roof over your head. Keep the faith, the battle will be won.

 

Aug 21, 2011 10:15 AM
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Anonymous
DisabledDad

Steve,

I would appreciate anything that you could provide regarding this case. I am ProSe and have a virtually identical case. Not only did the closing notary lie about the date things were signed but because I knew that she had I knew she wouldn't provide the journal and she didn't. But then she strung me along for a couple of months eventually telling me she had lost it. and would have to file lost journal with SOS. So I waited 5 months and followed up with SOS Office and found that she didn't do anything. I filed the complaint and requested a certificate . 3 months later I checked the list and found she has a new commission number, but the investigation is still going.

The notary from Texas that did the foreclosure docs has not responded to my request, now 4 mos old. So on a lark I mapped the address I took from the Texas SOS site and it is a empty lot in Plano subdivision.

QLS is false Trustee because SOT was done months after NOD and BofA is servicer but claims to be lender ,but just got copy of note  that is endorsed "In Blank" by Christina Schmitt BofA,NA "Without Recourse" Not dated. This waas sent by Atty in response to my 5th QWR.

Got anything that could help? It would be much appreciated

Sep 24, 2011 03:13 AM
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Anonymous
cloris banks

I would like the case citation so I can track the legal argument on filing alleging notary fraud.

Feb 24, 2012 11:59 AM
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Anonymous
Tia Smith

Hi Steve,

I would also like the case citation since my case is very similar and I need all the help I can get.

Thank you for sharing.

Tia 

Mar 31, 2012 10:32 AM
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Anonymous
bernie myers

hi steve,

 

i am currently going through a similar situation in the 10th circuit court in denver involving several city of loveland police dept notarys who notorized forged doucuments for my former step mother, who, at that time, was the secretary for the loveland chief of police as well as the loveland police administrator. even the larimer county chief investigator from the larimer county district attorneys office said it would be a slam dunk for the crime of forgery. all of the notarys involved claim that my father was present when the documents were notorized but 3 out of the 5 involved "lost" their log journals while another notary of 30 plus years did not know she had to have a log journal. i am proceeding with this case as the three lawfirms that i did have, for whatever their reasons were, all failed to disclose these forgeries to me. not only them but also the colorado bureau of investigation as well. every time i filed by myself for a complete records search it kept coming back no records, other then the 2 i had, a quit claim deed and a seperation agreement dated in 2002. my dad divorced her in 1998.

currently, the defense has tried a motion to dismiss followed by 4 more attempts to push the court to dismiss me but the court wont. the f.b.i. has now had my criminal complaint for over a month now and i am fixing to file a motion to stay pending the outcome of the investigation.

 

if you would like to be outraged or anyone else on here for that matter, go to pacer.gov and look up the case file. it is....

 

myers v. city of loveland colorado  12-cv-2317 reb-klm

 

i would appreciate being added on to see how the court rules on your case. good luck with it.

 

bernie myers

big spring texas

432-935-6425

telaviv43@yahoo.com

Dec 02, 2012 04:48 AM
#18
Anonymous
Maggie

I live in San Bernardino County, CA. When I closed on a re-fi 1st. In 2006 with Countrywide, I had a waiver of impounds, but I am a stickler for certainty so when I signed the Deed of Trust, I wrote disagree next to the paragraph line 3. Much to my surprise in June 2012, the Servicer paid my taxes and increased my mortgage $715.00 more a month on top of what I already pay. Who can afford that? I wrote and told them I had no agreement for impounds and I wanted to pay my contractually agreed monthly payment, not the impound. The Servicer would not accept anything less than the new amount with the impound increase, I could not pat it. They sent me a letter of Default and I replied by asking for a copy of my Deed of Trust (I wanted them to take note of my marking disagree on it).  When they sent the DOT, the signature was not mine, the pages I marked with the words, "disagree" were replaced without the markings, and the Notary date was 2-days after I signed the original papers I marked on.

When I marked on the DOT, the closing agent said "oh well, if the lender has a problem with it, they won't fund the loan" The closing was bent on my signing that day because the loan doc expired that same day.

Now I really don't know what to do. I just want to make my payment without the impound increase because I never agreed to it. They will push me into foreclosure or bankruptcy and there's no reason for that, if they honor my original impound waiver and disagreement to paragraph 3.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

 

 

Jan 01, 2013 10:44 PM
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Anonymous
carol

I have a similar case, get this the notary even notarized her own general denial to my complaint against her and the substitute trustee, they believe themselves teflon in Texas, hopefully the courts will not ignore the blatant fraud and do something to stop it the substitute trustee deed is forged and I have found a thousand documents in her property record many of which are also forged and notarized by the same notary- let me know about your case

Jun 18, 2014 06:36 AM
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Anonymous
Mike

Hi Steve.
I have exactly the same case - TX notary involved in the fraud and forgery. The sad part is that TX SoS taking the notary side.
In their response they stated there are no "actioable violations". Violations are there, just not actionable.
I WOULD LIKE THE CASE CITATION SO YOU CAN TRACK THE LEGAL ARGUMENTS.

Thanks.

Aug 07, 2014 05:46 AM
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Anonymous
Tom Kirkpatrick

I would like the Case Citation as I am in the process of filing a lawsuit against a notary for filing false docs on the court. Also, I want a sample of complaint for notary malfeasance. Thanks.

Apr 08, 2015 02:18 AM
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Anonymous
Ray

I have a similar case here in Florida but we have the original notary and the witness who has filed an affidavit in our bankruptcy court that the signatures and stamp are fake. U S B bank just keeps hiring new attorney to beat us down. But we will never ever give up. I want the board of directors of US Bank and Mr Arklyn And their attorney mr Fogelman from SN Servicing charged. Can you send the case. I will turn all the information over to law enforcement. There is no limit on forgery.

May 23, 2016 04:00 AM
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Anonymous
karen

So sorry this happened to you guys. I thought it only happened to me. dont trust notaries in the state of maryland. SOME might be "ok" but when there is a complaint. the sos looks the other way. Crime pays in maryland

Oct 26, 2016 01:00 PM
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Anonymous
PAH PAH

A notary notarized a deed with forged signatures of me and a older sibling. She conspired with one of our other siblings to steal a deed.We caught them.

Mar 29, 2017 08:18 AM
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Anonymous
Leonor

A California notary public forced my husband to change his signature because she had to make out the letters in his first and last name can she do that?

Apr 03, 2017 07:55 PM
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