Justin T. Hilley, Housing Wire A well-known Florida attorney and whistleblower who appeared on ’60 Minutes’ to make allegations of robo-signing against mortgage servicers will receive $18 million to settle her lawsuit over the foreclosure of her condo. The funds will go to Lynn Szymoniak, the first in South Carolina to file a lawsuit under […]
MFI-Miami and A Florida Client Are Featured In FCIR Article Ralph De LaCruz, Florida Center For Investigative Journalism There’s no doubt what the F-word has come to mean in Florida during the past three years. Foreclosures. There are almost 40,000 properties now in foreclosure in the Sunshine State. Almost 30,000 more are in the short sale process, […]
Melissa Holsman, TCPalm.com Veteran actor Burt Reynolds, a longtime Hobe Sound resident, is facing a foreclosure lawsuit that seeks to collect about $1.2 million for a mortgage on his nearly 4-acre Indian Hills estate on the Intracoastal Waterway. A lawsuit filed in Martin County Circuit Court by Merrill Lynch Credit Corp. against Reynolds, BankAtlantic and Great Eastern Mortgage, contends the Emmy Award-winning actor […]
Hernando County Doughnut Squad Refuses To Investigate Illegal Trash-out Imagine coming back to your home after being away a few weeks and finding the locks changed and the home trashed. That’s what happened to Chris Boudreau of Brooksville. Boudreau showed us the home, which was stripped bare. Walking through the living room, he tells us […]
Eric P. Newcomer, St. Petersburg Times After going out of town, an 82-year-old man returned home to find his house emptied out. Even the trash was gone. He found a padlocked door and a sign for a company that cleans out properties in foreclosure. But Benito Santiago Sr.’s home wasn’t in foreclosure, public records show. […]
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