Tampa Bay-
A bankruptcy judge has ordered a temporary halt to all state and appellate court proceedings in which suspended foreclosure defense attorney Mark Stopa and his former law firm are counsel of record.
The emergency order, effective until Nov. 6, could give dozens of Florida homeowners a temporary respite from the threat of foreclosure. But many have been surprised and dismayed to find that the trustee overseeing the law firm’s bankruptcy case has been cashing post-dated checks they wrote to the firm.
“It’s a hot mess,” Tonya McKendree, a former client of Stopa, said Wednesday. She said trustee Stephen Meininger cashed four checks totaling $1,250, causing her account to be overdrawn by about $400 and costing her more than $100 in overdraft fees.
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