Trumps Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes

[CousinIT]

In 2015, OneWest Bank moved to foreclose on John Yang, an 80-year-old Korean immigrant living in Orange Park, Florida, a small suburb of Jacksonville. The bank believed he wasn’t living in his home, violating the terms of its loan. It dispatched an agent to give him legal notification of the foreclosure.

Where did the bank find him? At the same single-story home the bank had said in court papers he did not occupy.

Still OneWest pressed on, forcing Yang, a former Christian missionary, to seek help from legal aid attorneys. This year, during a deposition, an employee of OneWest’s servicing division was asked the obvious question: Why would the bank pursue a foreclosure that seemed so clearly unjustified by the facts?

The employee’s response was blunt: “You’re trying to make logic out of an illogical situation.”

Yang was lucky. The bank eventually dropped its efforts against him. But others were not so fortunate. In recent years, OneWest has foreclosed on at least 50,000 people, often in circumstances that consumer advocates say run counter to federal rules and, as in Yang’s case, common sense

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-treasury-pick-excelled-at-kicking-elderly-out-of-their-homes

[shraby]

1. And why isn't he in jail for cheating people?

[katmondoo]

2. Next they will be kicking Medicare and Medicaid patients out of nursing homes

There are a lot of nursing home patients with no one able to care for them outside. Not that any Republican even gives a damn.