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"The Default Machine" A nationwide system of engineered foreclosure fraud. Opening on the Snake and Clearwater river valley, it frames Lewiston as both the lowest elevation in Idaho and the floor of a much deeper story about how homes are stripped from families and converted into financial product for institutions. a neighborhood scene beside a distressed house is paired with a quote describing how foreclosure abuses were never truly cleaned up after the 2008 crisis. The viewer is then walked down a brick lined main street of law offices and servicing shops, visually introducing Halliday Watkins & Mann, IDEA Law Group, Bank of America, Carrington, and related actors as storefronts in the same operation rather than isolated entities. On canyon walls and industrial backdrops, it maps how national trade groups, securitization trustees, foreclosure mill law firms, document vendors, and the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) interlock. One section, "Pattern 01: The Forgery Factory," details mass robo signing through document service providers, using testimony and internal admissions that staff signed thousands of assignments a day without knowledge or authority. "Pattern 02: The MERS Shadow System" shows how MERS was used to privatize the land records, hide chains of title, and fabricate assignments after a borrower was already in trouble, transforming what should have been criminal document creation into normalized practice. A timeline for 1515 21st Avenue. It begins with an FHA loan, then the recording of a Full Reconveyance that should have cleared the lien, followed years later by the sudden appearance of a backdated Deed of Trust that resurrects the debt. This sequence sets up "The Anatomy of a Forgery," where authentic signatures from 2005 to 2008 are compared against the 2009 Deed of Trust signature, highlighting structural and angular anomalies that point to fabrication. It dissects the trustee sale itself: pre printed checks, closed coordination among insiders, and the absence of genuine open bidding, all presented as features of a pre arranged transfer rather than a fair market auction. A subsequent slide zooms out again, tracing matching fact patterns from Lewiston to Salt Lake City and listing other Mountain Prime, DPW, and related cases to show that this is not a local glitch but a repeatable business model. A homeowner’s face fills the frame while the slide quantifies lost equity and contrasts it with the negligible penalties paid by corporate actors after the mortgage meltdown. The final image, set over a sunset river, states that these are not mere allegations but prosecutable patterns, explicitly pointing to the Sherman Antitrust Act, RICO, and state consumer protection laws as avenues for criminal and civil enforcement. The presentation ends as an invitation and a challenge: the machine has been mapped, the patterns are visible, and the question is whether anyone will act.












