Over the past decade, I have been privy to some of the most elaborate criminal conspiracies which the Mortgage Field Services Industry has had to offer. Recently, as I was arranging some of my articles and notes for a publishing house who pitched me on a book deal, I was astonished by the length and breadth of NAMFS’ audacious activities — NAMFS being the National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS). Have no fear, they have appointed a ghostwriter to clean up much of the profanity and keep the wheels on the tracks so to speak. We are ironically diametrically opposed; while I focus on the sheer weight and effect of anti Labor tactics which NAMFS and its membership have deployed, she appears heavily interested in the stories of the leaders I have personally been involved with. And while I have final say in how the material is finally bound together, the reality is that I would probably be worse off were it not for her ability to perform due diligence apparently to keep the publisher out of courtrooms. I digress.
The ebb and flow of fraud, waste, and abuse of US taxpayer money is rhythmic in this Industry. In fact, were it not for the tens of billions of dollars thrown at the black hole of distressed asset maintenance, there would be no story at all to discuss. It is that, you know. It is a black hole of epic proportions which gobbles up cash much like a black hole does stars as it approaches its singularity. The reality is, cyclic in nature, all bets are off and the laws of what are right and wrong become quantumly entangled into a perversion of verbal gymnastics in order to justify the means to the end of the asset lifecycle. Ergo, by any means necessary, the asset must be rejuvenated so as to provide a tax base injection from which Banksters are capable of loaning money against — again, and again, and again.
Everyone whom was around during the 2008 Financial Crisis remembers American Mortgage Field Services. Tammy Roaderick and Dean Counce, both prominent NAMFS members, would bilk about $1 Million per month between 2007 – 2009 from Bank of America, et al. Foreclosurepedia covered it in a lengthy article here when NAMFS refused to kick him out. And it was all the usual suspects that we see today: FHA, HUD, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. Here, let the Department of Justice lay the story out because it sounds identical to how the collapsed Assero and currently collapsing GIS Field Services sounds today,
As the real estate market declined, Counce, Roaderick, and AMFS began to receive an increasing number of requests for inspections on properties in foreclosure. Most or all of the mortgages on the properties were owned or insured by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or FHA. The requests far exceeded AMFS’s capacity to deliver. As a result, Counce, Roaderick and other AMFS employees acting at their direction began fabricating inspection reports. AMFS employed individuals, many of whom were unskilled teenagers, to use previous months’ photographs to fabricate subsequent inspection reports on properties. Counce and Roaderick also instructed AMFS employees to fabricate inspection reports by using publicly-available websites, such as property appraiser sites, to obtain data about properties that were not inspected. Employees who produced large numbers of false inspection reports were often rewarded with cash bonuses.
And are you curious what Counce is doing today? Glad you asked! He is the CEO and President of United Mortgage Field Services. Yeah, now the bells are starting to ring, huh? Now, the company appears to be inactive; however, that name sure does sound fucking familiar. Now, based on how these folks worm their way deleting pages like Chestnut Hill Partners just did in the brokerage of the sale of GIS Field Services to Littlejohn & Co. we made a copy of the webpage. Building on that, though, you have to look at the people whom are coddling this guy after his 97 month federal prison sentence. Chris Slaughenhoupt, National Senior Client Project Manager at A2Z Field Services, is a big time one that comes front and center. Not surprisingly when we look at how the red carpet rolls out for Jonathan Dedman Dietz over at GIS Field Services, I suppose.
Don’t take it from me, though, that letting Counce back in the NAMFS game is a bad idea. Here is what the Secret Service’s Special Agent in Charge had to say,
“In my opinion, Mr. Counce’s greed-driven deception is an example of the worst type of criminal behavior,” John Joyce, special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Tampa office, said in a released statement.
Nothing new under the sun. And we all remember Heather Berghorst. A simple Google search of her name HEATHER BERGHORST still shows that Foreclosurepedia controls two of the listings on Page One. Here is a good starter article on the former NAMFS Secretary that NAMFS Executive Director Eric Miller refused to remove from the NAMFS Board of Directors. Yeah, starting to see that trend, yet? But remember, all good criminal havens must have a kingpin that they pay to keep the wheels greased and rolling. A simple Google Search of ERIC MILLER NAMFS will show Foreclosurepedia controls two of the listings on Page One of Google, as well. This will catch you up on precisely how much money NAMFS pays their kingpin to keep the fraud going. And remember, that was based on their IRS 990 from 2018 that #TwoForVerisk Miller and NAMFS President Matt Zoldowski have refused to provide since then.
It is a well established fact that being on the NAMFS Board of Directors virtually ensures that you have been or will be involved in bankruptcy. Heather Berghorst had her second bankruptcy while NAMFS Secretary. And Labor should take note of that! Millions upon millions of dollars in financial fraud — err, bankruptcies that ensured Labor was never paid like the Involuntary Bankruptcy of Shari Nott and National Field Network — is what you have to look forward to if you work for folks keeping that kind of company. Hey, I get it. Blood in and blood out. All good.
We are right back where we started, though. Here is how Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Craig Karnes, Acting Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, put it last week,
Yes, the pre and post-conveyance servicing is still considered a Conflict of Interest, and we’re dealing with it on several fronts, including both the current Bridge contractors and the new awardees. I can’t confirm specifics, but can say we are aware of possible issues with both that need to be mitigated.
Nothing will come of it, to be sure what with the revolving door in Washington and the laying out of cash everywhere for that green carpet that SF Housing walks upon. What is different today, though, is that there is an enormous push by almost all Prime Vendors to bring on employees. In fact, Littlejohn & Co. who owns MCS and GIS Field Services, made no bones about it through MCS recently. And the reality is startlingly clear: If you run employees the Union will come a calling. In fact, even if you do not run employees, the recent cases with Uber, et al., have demonstrated that chances are almost 100% you have misclassified employees. After all, MCS, ServiceLink, PK Management, Assurant Field Asset Services — hell virtually all Prime Vendors have paid to settle litigation in the tens of millions of dollars that contractors, were in fact, employees.
It has been far too long since we have run through the names of the NAMFS Offender Members. And over the coming days, we are going to revisit the wreckage left behind by NAMFS Executive Director Eric Miller in addition to his over One Million Dollars in salaries recently. Think about that, just for a moment. Over ONE MILLION DOLLARS for Miller and $3.50 for inspections from NAMFS Board Member Jonathan Dedman Dietz who runs GIS Field Services for Littlejohn & Co. Sure as hell is starting to sound like an ongoing criminal enterprise to me.
