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Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman and Lynn Szymoniak were all foreclosure victims in the Great Recession. While struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, they discovered the deceit behind them, and built a movement to expose it. Dayen recounts how dozens of executives on Wall Street committed foreclosure fraud, kicking families out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose-- and how for a brief moment the corrupt financial industry was brought to its knees.