Reply #68: Lawyers Threatened With Sanctions for Talking About Foreclosure Abuses

[Demeter]

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/lawyers-threatened-with-sanctions-for-talking-about-foreclosure-abuses.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

...One damning illustration: even though Florida has been a virtual cesspool of legal malfeasance, with its biggest foreclosure mill having shuttered its doors and impermissibly not passed open cases on to other lawyers and all of the other big players on the ropes, not a single lawyer has been sanctioned. Yet two lawyers in the state were threatened because they’ve dared to say a candid word or two about the mortgage mess. The bar association’s excuse is investigations take time, but the old state attorney general has been investigating these firms since last August. The state bar’s speed in efforts to silence members who are candid versus the leisurely pace in taking action on rampant abuses smacks of cronyism...