Alleged Squatter Stakes Claim to Seattle Homes, Says She Is 'Sticking It' to Banks

As if the nation's real estate market did not already have enough problems -- declining sales, credit crunch and the home appraisal nightmare -- now squatters are moving into vacant and foreclosed homes and staking ownership claims.

A Seattle woman who plopped herself into a vacant $3.3 million suburban Seattle mansion with her two kids -- claiming she was squatting in empty foreclosed mansions as a means of "sticking it" to the banks -- now tells the judge she "meant no harm."

Jill Lane, an attractive blonde and co-owner of an online debt recovery business that also claims to help make mortgages vanish, says she made a mistake and is seeking legal counsel.