Bank of America sued for seizing wrong house

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Bank of America sued for seizing wrong house
by Chris in Paris on 1/13/2010 10:21:00 PM

Some people are so picky about having their house repossessed when they didn't even have a bank loan let alone a loan from Bank of America. And sure, once BofA cut the power, 75 pounds of fish rotted, leaked from the fridge and smelled up the house but suing the bank is so extreme. As the bank says, this case is completely without merit.

A West End property owner is suing Bank of America Corp., asserting its agents mistakenly seized a vacation house he owns free and clear, then changed the locks and shut the power off, resulting in the smelly spoiling of about 75 pounds of salmon and halibut from an Alaska fishing trip and other damages.

Dr. Alan Schroit filed the lawsuit Monday in the 122nd State District Court in Galveston against the bank with which he has neither a relationship nor a mortgage.

Schroit, a retired professor at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, is suing for wrongful invasion of his house in the 4100 block of Green Heron Drive in the Pointe West subdivision. http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=4e1cfb1bebbf31e1

http://www.americablog.com/2010/01/bank-of-america-sued-for-seizing-wrong.html

[Uben]

1. Something smells fishy about this.............

.....I bet!

[FourScore]

5. It's a rotten thing to do. n/t

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Seems like that would be attempted burglary, trespass and so on

The police should be involved.

[shawcomm]

3. Yeah, sounds like a criminal matter to me.

Too bad it would probably be the actual BoA employees or agents who entered the property who ended up in trouble instead of the CEO and other corporate raiders.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. If any non-corporate person did that, they'd be in JAIL

Why does BofA get a pass on that?

[TransitJohn]

13. It is maddenning that when

an individual commits a fraud or trespass against a corporation, the corporation used the criminal justice system to punish the individual, but that when a corporation commits a fraud or trespass against an individual, the individual has to pay his own money to take the corporation to civil court. Yet another shining example of unequal protection under the law. End corporate personhood now!

[Cronus Protagonist]

14. I have long been an advocate of ending corporate "personhood"

It always was and always will be a total sham perpetuated to empower corporations over the people.

[izquierdista]

4. Hope it goes to a jury trial

Juries really LOVE bankers -- NOT!

[LeftyMom]

7. A whole lot of people have to have fucked up big time for that to happen.

Jesus. I can't even imagine how many people got fired over that epic fuckup.

[ret5hd]

8. My guess: None

[slackmaster]

10. You're probably right

Diffusion of responsibility runs strong in large corporations.

[laughingliberal]

11. The full article at the link notes another case where BofA seized the wrong house

A man in KY, who has no mortgage with BofA, had his home wrongfully seized and they refused to pay for any damages beyond paying to have the locks changed.

Have these people gotten so accustomed to taking people's homes that they just think they all belong to them, now? F*** these assholes. I hope they lose their asses in court.

[slackmaster]

9. The very same Bank of America that thinks I am a co-borrower on my ex-wife's Visa card

:argh:

[Bitwit1234]

12. I suppose since they have the white house wrapped around their

little finger Bank of America thinks they can do what ever they want and not suffer the consequences. I hope the home owner sues the pants of that company.

[upi402]

15. Say what ya want about lawyers, they keep the powerful honest

I hope BofA gets their trousers turned upside-down by them!

[HughBeaumont]

16. SO glad I refi'd with my bank away from B of A.

Seems like my mortgage payment went up in price every 3 months with them. Refi'd at a 5.375 rate with my bank 8 years ago. My mortgage is now cheaper than a lot of rents.