A Queens Supreme Court judge granted MFY’s motion to dismiss a foreclosure action against a Queens homeowner by showing that HSBC, as trustee for a residential mortgage-backed security trust, did not own the note or the mortgage and therefore had no legal standing to foreclose. Queens-Homeowner-Beats-Back-HSBC’s-Attempt-to-Foreclose
The Daily News reports on MFY’s class action lawsuit against three-quarter house operators.
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera shows how a tenacious MFY attorney saved the home of an elderly Queens homeowner.
The December 2010 ABA Journal explores the thorny field of debt collection, citing MFY’s groundbreaking study Justice Disserved on the relationship between “sewer service” and default judgments in debt collection cases. Read article.
Tanya Kessler of MFY interviewed by Cindy Rodriquez about three-quarter house abuse.
Tanya Kessler, attorney for MFY, and WNYC reporter, Cindy Rodriguez, discuss MYF’s programs to help those in three quarters houses.
MFY charges that three companies that rent housing units to people leaving the shelter system, substance abuse programs and prisons engaged in widespread deceptive practices, pressured tenants into signing away their rights, violated the rent stabilization code and laws, and unlawfully evicted tenants onto the street when they became unprofitable.
Bank of America illegally auctioned an elderly Queens resident’s home after they accepted tens of thousands of dollars of mortgage payments.
Bank of America illegally auctioned an elderly Queens resident’s home after they accepted tens of thousands of dollars of mortgage payments.
A class action lawsuit charges that Bank of America broke the law by failing to carry through on contractual promises to permanently modify mortgage payments for New York homeowners who successfully completed the trial modification period under the federal government’s Make Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).
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