— Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabappleliterally millions of foreclosures were pushed into court by banks brandishing perjured and/or fraudulent paperwork. Many of the phony docs were MERS mortgages. The register of deeds in just one city, Salem, Massachusetts, sent Holder the paperwork for 31,897 fraudulent foreclosure documents and asked for a criminal investigation, because of the “pattern of fraud” they demonstrated. Holder passed.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 43)