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

Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors.”The New York Times Book ReviewEnraging and enlightening.”Philadelphia InquirerAn inspiring, well-rendered, deeply reported, and often infuriating account.”Kirkus Reviews (starred)Hitchcockian Meticulously researched, enthralling, and educational, this addition to the literature of the Great Recession calls out for its own big-screen adaptation.”Publishers Weekly"Note: Dave Dayen's magnificent Chain of Title is essential to understanding how people became victims of the kind of rigged casino t

"What You Must Know in Order to Preserve America" according to Dale Parsons, Maui, HI. Never before has a non-fiction book detailed the truth in such scandalizing description highlighting the corruption,fraud and intentional deception perpetrated on the American homeowners by Wall Street banksters. The mafia-like undertones have permeated our state and federal legislators and our courts. Judges are seemly told to squash homeowners to keep the banks li. A Unique Angle of the Foreclosure Crisis Told in a Very Unique Way - An Excellent Book That I Could Not Put Down Until Finished The book accurately recounts the chronology of every major detail of the foreclosure crisis and the movement it has created. The body of work is remarkably well-researched and written. Rather than a dry recounting of history, the story is told through the lives of a few very honest, dedicated, smart and humble people, who played a major role in exposing some of Wall. I was rooting for the people and learned a lot from this great book. Mehrsa You've read about the financial crisis and all the people victimized by it. Dayen gives voice to those "victims" who were anything but inert in face of exploitation. These are the people that were foreclosed upon who met and rallied and fought and sometimes they won. Before there was occupy, there were message boards and meetings and scrappy people fighting big syst

They had no history of anticorporate activism. As Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi noted: "Chain of Title is a sweeping work of investigative journalism that traces the arc of a criminally underreported story in America, the collapse of the rule of law in the home mortgage industry." . A Kirkus Reviews and The Week best book of the year, David Dayen?s Chain of Title is a riveting work that recalls A Civil Action, Erin Brockovich, and Flash Boys, recounting how three ordinary Floridians—a car dealership worker, a cancer nurse, and an insurance fraud specialist—helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history, challenged the most powerful institutions in America, and—for a brief moment—brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. Harnessing the power of the Internet, they revealed how the financial crisis and subsequent recession were fundamentally based upon a series of frauds that kicked millions out of their homes because of false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. 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