Tuesday, November 19, 2013

One for you, and a thousand for me, one for you, and a....

I saw on the news that JP Morgan Chase has finalized a deal to cough up $13,000,000,000 to put to bed all the claims against them for mortgage securities fraud.  A couple of those Bil will go to aggrieved homeowners.  "So we're good now, right?"

Really?  If I was a gambling man, I'd bet that John D(umb) Homeowner will see maybe a penny on the dollar if he's lucky.

I remember a few years ago I received a letter saying I was automatically included in a class-action lawsuit against Mastercard (?) over some sort of illegal fees they charged travelers using their cards while overseas. What ever.


Sure enough, a year later I opened my mail to find a settlement check....in the amount of $.18.  That's eighteen CENTS.  The lawyers got all the rest.  Surprised?  And as I recall, just to piss 'em off, I actually CASHED the check.  Ha!  Take that!  :)

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  1. stephen HayesNovember 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    I hope you were wise enough to save that 18 cents for a rainy day.

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  2. joehNovember 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM

    I received a similar amount on a class action suit over some bullshit wording of a car leasing contract.
    Not sure this JPM thing falls into the same class-action lawyer scam, but for sure JPM and others deserve a penalty for approving really bad loans and then bundling them to equally greedy investors where last person holding the paper when the shit hit the fan were the losers.

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  3. Pixel PeeperNovember 20, 2013 at 8:14 PM

    13 Billion? Isn't that what we call "chump change?"

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