Miami Foreclosure Defense

Lawyer Mark Stopa Allegedly Scammed $5 Million Off Foreclosure Clients With Equity Skimming Scam Lawyer Mark Stopa painted himself as the foreclosure messiah after the housing crash. Thousands of distraught homeowners bought into it and hire Stopa to keep them in their homes. Lawyer Mark Stopa helped many people hold on to their homes. He also acquired millions of dollars worth of property from other clients through a years-long pattern of fraud and deception. The alleged scheme to defraud clients and mortgage lenders has had a ripple effect throughout Florida. the scam has left thousands of foreclosure cases in limbo and Stopa’s firm about to file for bankruptcy. Tampa attorney Richard Mockler has tried unsuccessfully to salvage Stopa’s law practice. He told the Tampa Bay Times: Read more at MFI-Miami

Former Bankrate CFO Gets 10 Years In The Slammer For Cooking The Books To The Tune Of $25 Million Edward DiMaria is going to prison for 10 years. Former Bankrate  CFO Edward DiMaria  is going to prison for 10 years. The former Bankrate CFO pleaded guilty to orchestrating a fraud scheme that caused more than $25 million in shareholder losses. Bankrate is a publisher and news aggregator of personal finance content. The company also is a key lead generator for the financial services industry. DiMaria  pleaded guilty  in June to a laundry list of securities and bank fraud allegations. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make false statements to a public company’s accountants and falsify a public company’s records and accounts. He also pleaded guilty to one count of making materially false statements to the SEC. DiMaria admitted that he directed and conspired to commit a complex scheme to artificially inflate Bankrate’s earnings. He u...

Only The Most Aggressive Tampa Bay Foreclosure Defense Can Stop Tampa Bay Foreclosures Only the most aggressive Tampa Bay foreclosure defense can stop Orlando foreclosures. MFI-Miami has created the most aggressive Tampa Bay foreclosure defense team Florida has ever seen! We are the only foreclosure and mortgage experts with the strength to successfully challenge any mortgage lender in a Tampa Bay area courtroom. Our competitors show off one or two victories but they can’t beat our track record. How do we know this? Because   we have the track record in Florida to prove it . MFI-Miami has become a lender’s worse nightmare. Why? MFI-Miami has successfully challenged some of the most arrogant foreclosure mill lawyers and lenders in Florida. Steve Dibert has also helped keep lenders from discriminating against Hispanics and people of African and Caribbean descent. In addition, he has helped keep combat veterans in their homes.  Read more at MFI-Miami

Only The Most Aggressive Orlando Foreclosure Defense Stop Orlando Foreclosures Only the most aggressive Orlando foreclosure defense can stop Orlando foreclosures. MFI-Miami has created the most aggressive Orlando foreclosure defense team Florida has ever seen! We are the only foreclosure and mortgage experts with the strength to successfully challenge any mortgage lender in an Orlando area courtroom. Our competitors show off one or two victories but they can’t beat our track record. How do we know this? Because   we have the track record in Florida to prove it . MFI-Miami has become a lender’s worse nightmare. Why? MFI-Miami has successfully challenged some of the most arrogant foreclosure mill lawyers and lenders in Florida. Steve Dibert has also helped keep lenders from discriminating against Hispanics and people of African and Caribbean descent. In addition, he has helped keep combat veterans in their homes.  Read more at MFI-Miami

House Candidate Jennifer Suidan Accused Of Embezzling $100,000 From Elected Official’s Campaign Account A Michigan House candidate is accused of embezzling more than $100,000 from another politician’s campaign funds. Jennifer Suidan  allegedly embezzled more than $100,000 from Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner’s campaign account. Meisner made the allegations at a  news conference from the  Goodman Acker  law firm. Suidan worked at the law firm and was fired because of the alleged embezzlement. She worked as a nonlawyer managing the campaign funds at the law firm for Meisner and other Democrats. The prominent suburban Detroit law firm handles primarily personal injury claims. The firm also handles funds for a number of prominent Democrats. Read more at MFI-Miami

The Most Aggressive Miami Foreclosure Defense Stop Miami Foreclosures Only the most aggressive Miami foreclosure defense can stop Miami foreclosures. That is why MFI-Miami has created the most aggressive Miami foreclosure defense team South Florida has ever seen! We are the only foreclosure and mortgage experts with the strength to successfully challenge any lender in a Miami or South Florida courtroom. Our competitors show off one or two victories but they can’t beat our track record. How do we know this? Because  we have the track record in Florida to prove it .  MFI-Miami has become a lender’s worst nightmare. Why? MFI-Miami has successfully challenged some of the most arrogant foreclosure mill lawyers and lenders in South Florida. Steve Dibert has also helped keep lenders from discriminating against Hispanics and people of African and Caribbean descent. In addition, he has helped keep combat veterans in their homes.  Read more at MFI-Miami

Credit Freezes aka The Equifax Rule Allows Consumers To Put A Freeze On Who Can Pull Information  Consumers can now freeze their credit at all three of the major credit reporting agencies for free. The new rule went into effect yesterday. Industry insiders are dubbing it the “Equifax rule.” The  massive data breach  at Equifax led to a  push  to ban credit reporting agencies from charging to freeze someone’s credit. Each state had different rules about credit freezes. Some states allowed agencies to charge up to $10 to place a credit freeze. States also allowed credit agencies to charge $10 to lift the freeze. Not anymore. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act bans the practice. The act was signed into law by President Trump  earlier this year. Read more at MFI-Miami

New York City Mayor de Blasio Has Discovered A Cure For The Zombie Homes Plague In NYC! It’s lawsuits! New York State has been plagued by zombie homes in the decade since the financial crisis. Zombie homes are abandoned foreclosed homes that are owned by banks and lenders. In 2016  New York State passed a law  allowing the state and municipalities to fine lenders for not maintaining the property.  NYDFS also has the ability to slap a $500 per day fine on the lender for each property. As a result of the law, NYDFS  successfully sued PHH last year  for $119,000 for a single property in the Hudson Valley. The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development is using the law to sue Citimortgage and Wells Fargo. They are also suing three mortgage servers that represent the two lenders. The largest one being Ocwen. New York’s zombie homes law designates both lenders and their mortgage servicers as responsible parties for the safety and securit...

ATTENTION MARK STOPA FORECLOSURE CLIENTS: MFI-Miami and our partner lawyers Are Here To Help! MFI-Miami wants to help Mark Stopa foreclosure clients keep their homes. Many of these clients have been left shell-shocked by the   downfall of Mark Stopa’s law firm .  We want to help them find a new credible lawyer in their area.       Being in foreclosure is stressful enough. However, having  an attorney suspended and his office raided  by law enforcement is not the stress homeowners in foreclosure need.   Mark Stopa has left nearly   4000 clients without legal representation   in the middle of their fight to save their home. MFI-Miami finds this unacceptable. Therefore, MFI-Miami has pledged to assist any Mark Stopa foreclosure clients to find credible legal representation. So they can continue in their fight to stay in their homes.  Read more at MFI-Miami

South Florida Foreclosures Are Skyrocketing Thanks To The Florida Supreme Court South Florida Foreclosures By Numbers A new study by Attom Data Solutions  shows that South Florida foreclosures are skyrocketing.  Florida had one of the highest rates of foreclosure starts in the United States in August compared to the same period last year. The report shows one in every 1,180 households in Florida had a Lis Pendens and foreclosure action filed against it. This is a 35% increase from the same time last year. Only New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland had higher rates of foreclosure starts. The Attom study also shows the number of foreclosure starts in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach jumped 29% in August. This also is the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year spikes in foreclosure. The spike in foreclosure starts in markets such as Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade is plagued by  income inequality  and  stagnant wages  that continue to worsen. ...