From:	Thomas Cox [tac@gwi.net]
Sent:	Saturday, June 12, 2010 5:59 PM
To:	Walter Hackett; O. Max Gardner III
Cc:	mark malone
Subject:	GMAC/ Jeffery Stephan
Attachments:	Federal National Mortgage v Bradbury - 06-07-10 - Stephan - Minu.pdf; 
ATT1885177.txt

Walter and Max,

Walter,  Mark Malone mentioned that you may have a Jeffery Stephan 
case.  I am sending along a transcript of a deposition of him that i took just 
this past Monday.

I am under major assault by the GMAC lawyers here in Portland.  They are 
accusing me of bad faith in the taking of this deposition saying that I was 
taking it for the express purpose of use in cases other than the one that I 
deposed him in.  Because they are looking for ways to nail me, I have not 
wanted to put the transcript into wide circulation until I put it into the public 
court record.  That will happen toward the middle or end of this coming 
week.  At that point I will post notice of it on the NACA listserv.

In the meantime would both of you please keep this under wraps for just a 
few more days.

I am gearing up to depose Stephan again in about a month in a case where 
he indorsed a note for GMAC Bank, also as a "limited signing officer".  I 
think that I have the documents that he relies upon for authority to attempt 
to do this, and I am fairly sure that he has no power to indorse.

These are exciting times here in Maine.  In addition to the excitement last 
week with Stephan, I have an argument in the Maine Supreme Court on 
Tuesday where we have a very good shot at getting  ruling that MERS does 
not have standing to sue in Maine.  I have two more foreclosure appeals to 
the Maine Supreme Court coming within a few more months raising other 
foreclosure defense issues.   And, we are just beginning to work on a case 
where we hope to take on MERS head on and ague that its "corporate 
signing officer" system is a sham and that their mortgage assignments are 
meaningless.  I will be looking for a lot of consultations around that effort.

Tom

Thomas A. Cox, Esq.
MASH Volunteer Program Coordinator
P.O.Box 1314
Portland, Maine 04104
(207) 749-6671