reporter: well, you mentioned to the issue right there, the halting of the foreclosures because of the robo-signing scandal. once the justice department and the banks and the states attorneys general came to a settlement in that case, the $25 billion setment, it opened up the spigot so that the banks could then go back into the foreclosure business. and all of these homes, all these houses which had been held up and not been foreclosed upon in 2011 are now coming into the system. to give you a quick idea of what s going on, lender processing services out of jacksonville, florida, they re indicating that just in january the foreclosure process on houses by banks beginning the process jumped 28%. deutsche bank, up 47%. wells fargo, up 68%. so they re expecting all of these homes that had just sat in kind of limbo in 2011 to now get dumped on the market through foreclosure in 2012, jon. jon: anybody who s trying to sell a home, that s not good news. reporter: it s not for a
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that hurts the local economy, hurts the value of the block and the value of neighbors homes. they see it as good thing. not necessarily a safe investme butntore are jumping in and taking advantage of foreclosures this week. drew? poppy, my heart goes out to the neighbors of those properties who are paying their mortgage, doing the right thing and all of a sudden their value just tanks. yes. fort myers, hard-hit, too. boy, let s lay it on the line. that s a hard-hit area. yes. you ve been impact on the foreclosure business? a good question. this broke earlier this fall, looking a the lack of verified documents in people s loans, and what we wanted to know because of these auctions is,as tt d an impact on these auctions? has that meanthat tse auction.c that runs a lot of these auctions across the country, they ve seen no impact from the robo signing scandal. then say, look, it s business as
wednesday urging travelers to opt out in favor of pat down rather than the body scan. i don t think the government has the right to look under the clothes of anyone it wants without reasonable cause. guest: the pat downs take it too far, as well. shepard: and the t-shirt has showed up online, homeland security we get to touch your junk. or anyone else but the federal government it would be a crime. we have told you for weeks about the please in the foreclosure business. and it is not just bad news for homeowners but gerri willis
joining me is christian. with banks now getting back to the foreclosure business, what does it mean, is that the old snafu and we re to now on the mend? i think it s a bold move by bank of america because we re early on in the foreclosure mess. there are 50 attorney generals getting together starting their investigation and u.s. justice department. so we ll see what happens. julie: i guess the question is now, what happens to all of those who were evicted and many of them say they were wronglyvektd from their homes. do they have any recourse? it be interesting to. see this investigation, my belief is will uncover some irregular activities. certainly here in illinois, state attorney general has talked about potential fraudulent activity. i believe that there could be some civil, criminal charges