United Foreclosure Attorney Network alleges JP Morgan Chase to have improperly indorsed and assigned mortgage notes in order to foreclose

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Chase is one of the major banks that announced a suspension of its foreclosure efforts in the fall of 2010 amid revelations of industry-wide mortgage document fraud according to media reports at the time. In the rush to process hundreds of thousands of foreclosures, Chase allegedly employed people to supply the necessary signatures for the documents that allowed the foreclosures to go forward. This practice, common among the major banks, came to be known as “robo-signing” and has been the target of lawsuits ever since.

Despite supposedly having put a stop to these practices last year, Chase has continued to face allegations of wrongful foreclosure. The United Foreclosure Attorney Network has filed suit against JP Morgan Chase recently in Superior Court in Martinez (case # C-11-02390) alleging, among other things, that JP Morgan Chase has not followed proper endorsement and transfer procedure before it has attempted to enforce Plaintiffs’ mortgage notes.

UFAN’s suit is just one instance of many such examples of alleged wrongful foreclosure. Spotlighted as one of the more egregious cases of mortgage and foreclosure fraud in recent memory, JPMorgan Chase was recently found to have presented false assignments of mortgages in court in order to foreclose on properties (case # 16-2008-CA-3989, 4th Judicial Circuit, Florida). A motion to dismiss JP Morgan Chase’s foreclosure action argued that the bank presented itself as the holder of the note and mortgage when it was actually only the servicer of the loan. The Bank’s attorneys had allegedly prepared false assignment documents that they attempted to use in court to justify the action.

Court documents reveal that while the Bank blamed the episode on a clerical error, the Court found "clear and convincing evidence" that Chase had engaged in a "knowing deception intended to prevent the defendants from discovery essential to defending the claim.”