I'll do you one better.....IS US Bank Trust really the trustee? Who is the real trustee?? Here's some interesting new info.....
If you go to the clerk of court's website for Ramsey County, MN's Second District Court, and look up civil case # 62-TR-CV-17-12, You're gonna find something very interesting. There's a 939 page document, filed by petitioner "U.S. Bank, National Association". In this document, which is titled, " PETITION OF U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, FOR INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN TRUSTS PURSUANT TO MINN. STAT. § 501C.0202 ", U.S. Bank, N.A. declares ITSELF to be the trustee for over 5,000 different trusts....
So, what's so special about this list? It contains a ton of trusts that U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. claims to be trustee for. Problem? You betcha. See, USB and USBT are two completely separate entities. They each have their own charter number with the USG. They each have their own IRS employer ID number. They each have their own separate HQ's and principal places of business--in two different states. Both companies fall under the US Bancorp umbrella but each is a distinct and separate subsidiary of US Bancorp. This means they are NOT interchangeable as trustee, nor are they interchangeable as a named petitioner in a court of law for a foreclosure case.
Among the trusts that USBT has falsely allowed its name to be used as "trustee" are basically all of the Vericrest trusts, the Lone Star Funds trusts like LSF8, LSF9 and so on....and a ton more. The timing is interesting on this--I just quite recently discovered it myself but this was actually filed in that court in March, 2017. In my own case, I've been told since June 2014, all the way up to today, with no breaks in between, that USBT was always the trustee that was involved with this LSF8 mess. We all know that USBT has sold its name for years now to be used as trustee, and has done so with a rather interesting way to cover its butt. The LPOA that they use clearly states that if any servicer brings negative attention their way as a result of this "arrangement", that they do not do so in any official capacity representing USBT. In other words, if they get caught lying, the servicer alone is on the hook and agrees to hold USBT harmless for any results of them using the USBT name.
For anyone who's dealing with US Bank or USBT as a supposed trustee, feel free to message me with the name of the trust and I will check the list for you to see if your trust is involved in this. Like I said, it's over 5,000 trusts, y'all....
And here's a reminder--as soon as I can locate the case I'll post it here. A foreclosure attorney went all the way to trial in a foreclosure case, stating at all relevant times that U.S. Bank was his client in the foreclosure--I'm almost positive it was USB, but it may have been another like BofA. When the trial had concluded, the judge ruled in favor of the homeowners. As such, the judge awarded over $100K to the homeowners to reimburse them for their legal fees and court costs in the action. It was only then that this attorney stood up and informed the judge that any such award would be unjust, because US Bank was never his actual client--only the servicer was. The judge then ruled that the lawyer himself/his firm would be on the hook for the $100K as a result of willful misrepresentation both to the court and to the homeowners. So remember this--if you can show that the attornies against you have indeed made this kind of false claim, it's not a small deal.