The bank had added Szymoniak's son, Mark Cullen, to the foreclosure suit this May, a move that many experts saw as an act of retaliation against Szymoniak, who has publicized banks' widespread use of forged signatures in the foreclosure process to improperly give borrowers the boot. On June 8, lawyers filed a "Notice of Dropping Party" with the Florida court dismissing its previous claims against Cullen.
The bank's decision to back down marks a minor victory for Szymoniak in her own fight to preserve her home. When Deutsche Bank hiked the interest rate on Lynn Szymoniak's mortgage in 2008, she challenged them in court, alleging the move was a violation of the original contract.
Szymoniak has challenged her bank outside the court as well" She has taken them to task in the halls of Congress, with state and federal law enforcement agencies and over the airwaves. A white-collar crime expert who specializes in documentation fraud, Szymoniak has detailed scores of commonplace foreclosure documentation improprieties as the foreclosure epidemic has deepened and shared her findings with state and federal officials.
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