Read it and see if your pulse and heart rate don't go up.
http://www.laweekly.com/2013-03-07/news/wells-fargo-typo-victim-dead-larry-delassus/full/
The corporation's mistake and failure to both correct it and be held accountable because of their manipulation of the the system is both tragic and shocking -
"Delassus got the first odd letter from Wells Fargo on Jan. 29, 2009. It informed him that Wells' tax service provider, First American Real Estate Tax Service, "reported delinquent taxes for the property located at: 320 Hermosa Beach Avenue 105."
Delassus, told that he owed taxes of $13,361.90 for 2007 and '08, was baffled. His attorney Anthony Trujillo, a friend and next-door neighbor, says Delassus was actually six months ahead on his taxes, which he paid directly to L.A. County.
On March 9, 2009, according to court documents, the bank informed Delassus that it was doubling his monthly mortgage payment to $2,429.13 to recoup the $13,361.90 in taxes.
"He came to me and told me what was going on" a couple of months later, Trujillo says. At that point, neither man knew that a bank typo was to blame. In December 2009, Wells Fargo notified Delassus that it intended to foreclose.
Then in May 2010, Trujillo discovered the erroneous fine print in Wells Fargo's original 2009 letter to Delassus — the "parcel number" off by two digits and belonging to somebody else."
The guy lost his home and died in court before he could obtain justice. Any system of justice should be accountable based on facts and evidence, not how much money and influence a non-human entity has - something Delassus had plenty of the former two, but not the latter two.
I actually believe the part worse than this guy dying over it, was the Wells Fargo has never been held accountable. To me it's criminal - their actions killed this guy. Why isn't it called murder or manslaughter?
The system of justice in this country for individual people has been manipulated by these large companies to prevent any accountability from being handed out.
Fucking tragic to say the least.
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