Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

Dayen, David

ISBN 10: 1620971585 / ISBN 13: 9781620971581

Published by New Press, 2016

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Synopsis:

Winner of the Ida and Studs Terkel Prize
In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose.

Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it.

Fiscal Times columnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truth—and for a brief moment they brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.

About the Author:

David Dayen is a contributing writer to Salon and a weekly columnist for the Fiscal Times, and he writes for publications including the New Republic, the American Prospect, The Guardian, Vice, The Intercept, and the Huffington Post. He lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans...
Publisher: New Press
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket