Mortgage ‘robo-signing’ continues

Practice goes on 8 months after actions led to nationwide halt of foreclosures

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Ingham County Registrar of Deeds Curtis Hertel displays documents Thursday filed in Ingham County containing signatures of well-known robo-signers, which are known to be fraudulent at the Ingham County Courthouse in Mason, Michigan.

Salem, Mass., Registrar of Deeds John O’Brien stands near copies of robo-signed signatures Monday at his office. O’Brien said an investigation of more than 710,000 documents in his office found that 25,187 homeowners in the county, or about 3.5 percent, have paperwork on file with signat...

Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led to a nationwide halt of home foreclosures.

County officials in at lea...

Published: 07/19/2011