Orlando Herlad-
Since Florida’s mortgage crisis began about six years ago, banks have agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle allegations that they wrongfully foreclosed on thousands of homeowners. Prosecutors have charged loan servicers with filing fraudulent documents on behalf of banks.
But the law firms and lawyers that homeowners and judges contend took part in those same practices? Some critics are accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Florida Bar of not going after them hard enough.
More than two years after wrongdoing by lawyers caused banks to stop foreclosures temporarily, these lawyers and their firms, which handled hundreds of thousands of foreclosures, have been accused of falsifying documents through fake signatures and backdating records and not giving homeowners proper notice that they faced foreclosure. Yet they continue to practice without facing any type of discipline, either from the criminal justice system or the Bar.
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I’d like to remind everyone that Pam Bondi took a dozen or more campaign “contributions” from Lender Processing Services and its subsidiaries, spin-offs, partners, employees, etc.
I bet a million bucks that a substantial portion of that settlement finds its way into the AG’s coffers in the form of fancy office furniture, upgrades to the motor pool, trips to all sorts of exotic places where some “industry expert” is speaking, and so on. We, the taxpayers, will continue to get screwed.
The AG and the Bar may have functioned in a relatively obscure capacity in the past, a clubhouse that punishes low level wayward counsel who blatantly rips off some sucker. But when it comes to big money and banks, the law, which has arguably always served big money, magically becomes a weapon to bury people with. What passes for law is a big joke in this country, a tool of brutality used by banks.