{"id":1445,"date":"2008-02-29T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/29\/buffalo-rising-brown-sues-banks\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:59:08","slug":"buffalo-rising-brown-sues-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/buffalo-rising-brown-sues-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Rising: Brown Sues Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/buffalorising.com\/img\/img_entries\/w290\/18715.jpg?resize=290%2C188\" height=\"188\" style=\"width: 290px; height: 188px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Byron Brown, in an effort to send a strong message to lending institutions and possibly regain some of the money the city has spent taking care of properties the banks have in foreclosure, has filed suit against some 40 banks and lending institutions.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Anti-Flipping Task Force document, Chase Manhattan, CitiFinancial, Deutsche Bank, M&T, JP Morgan, Keybank National, Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual are among the institutions targeted by the suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banks initiate a foreclosure procedure, the property becomes vacant, and then the banks don\u2019t want to incur the additional indebtedness of maintaining the properties and keeping them within code,\u201d Mayor Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>[<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buffalorising.com\/story\/brown_sues_banks#sca\">read full story<\/a>\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mayor Byron Brown, in an effort to send a strong message to lending institutions and possibly regain some of the money the city has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}