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Loan applications and u.s. attorneys are picking up the low-hanging fruit. i mean, the idea that you couldn't prosecute. i could give you case after case where they could have prosecuted, they could have convicted. they don't do it. >> why? >> they just refused to. well, the department of justice and lane any brewer who i liked and i've known for years were afraid to lose. that was kind of their trepidation about all of this. because clearly there were numerous people, numerous people in the banks who were foreclosing on, for instance, people who were in iraq. well, that's a crime under the cu...

To 16 percent. joining us now live, jenna lee from the fox business network. all right, what's behind this increase, jenna? >> reporter: a major part of this, jon, is timing. we have seen more banks come collecting on homes that they're foreclosing on and also sell those homes in the last three-months than any time in the last five years that realty track has started to collect this data, so there are two things happening, one is the homes that received a moratorium or a research -- temporary breaking from paying the mortgage at a lower rate, those have expired, also banks in a better position...

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They were foreclosing on. sound familiar? also with us from his hometown in chicago, cook county sheriff thomas dart, who is refusing to enforce eviction orders on homes foreclosed on by the biggest mortgage lenders. sheriff dart also running for mayor of chicago. nice to see you, sheriff. judge shack, i will begin with you. why are you the rarity right now and the aggression that you are showing in processing this? >> i don't like the word aggression. i'm not the rarity. i'm trying to do justice, which means that if i am presented with a foreclosure, i have to see that the painers are legally...