The bogus loans and bad foreclosure paperwork are both the result of Wall Street's massive appetite for mortgages during the housing bubble, experts say, as banks repackaged mortgages as asset-backed securities and sold them to investors.
The answer appears to be a bad mix of paperwork and balky computers.
"But if a restaurant gets a bad grade due to a paperwork technicality, the consumer will be misled".
It was a half-hour comedy set in a couple of grimy Greenwich Village squad rooms, populated by misfits who spent much of their time filling out paperwork and grumbling about bad coffee.
Good paperwork gets married to bad pieces.
But since Indonesian forestry laws are so laxly enforced, and paperwork so widely forged, they could not tell good wood from bad.
You get a deluge and then a bit of time to absorb the paperwork, so it's not all bad news.
"If you don't have the institutional memory or the original paperwork, oral history takes over and sometimes bad information gets out there," said John Krawchuk, the parks department's director of historic preservation.
