- Nov 14, 2013 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm EST
- Location: Abyssinian Baptist Church
- Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020
On Thursday, November 14th, the People’s Organization for Progress will welcome foreclosure defense attorney Josh Denbaux to their general assembly meeting. He will discuss new developments in the ugly foreclosure case of Orange senior citizen Suzie Johnson.
Denbaux will address the organization’s general assembly at 7pm at Abyssinian Baptist Church, 224 West Kinney Street, Newark.
Johnson had been wrongly forced into foreclosure in 2008 by Washington Mutual Bank. What was truly at issue was that a year’s mortgage payments had not been properly credited to her account. Once discovered, her account was properly credited and her mortgage returned to good standing.
JP Morgan Chase would later assume the mortgage and fail to address the same issue. Incredibly, they secured an eviction notice from a judge last year. POP and the Coalition To Save Our Homes rallied to Johnson’s defense. They rallied first at JP Morgan Chase’s downtown Newark branch, and when it came time to evict Johnson, they dramatically rallied in front of Johnson’s home. Essex County Sheriffs chose not to confront the protestors and did not enforce the eviction. A judge then stayed the eviction notice.
Apparently, the issues driving the eviction have never been addressed with JP Chase Morgan in court and they are again pursuing eviction.
Attorney Denbaux will brief the audience on the new developments.
“Instead of proceeding to evict a 78 grandmother from her home, we all should be looking about the injustices hidden behind many foreclosures in our communities and being talking d about a moratorium on foreclosures,” said an angry Lawrence Hamm…
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