#OWS: Foreclosure Mill That Mocked Homelessness Shuts Down
[Photo credit: NYT]
The Steven J. Baum law firm, the New York foreclosure mill whose employees threw that appalling homeless-themed Halloween party, is shutting down just a month after pictures of the party were published by the New York Times.
"The firm has been under fire from federal agencies and the public, including members of the local “Occupy” movement, for its alleged business practices," reports BusinessFirst.
The firm's apparent history of cruel indifference towards homeowners seeking to work out repayment or obtain a modification to save their homes, had previously earned the firm nothing more than the proverbial "hand slap" in the way of a fine not large enough to make the firm blink as they sign the check for "operating in a parallel mortgage universe, unrelated to the real universe,” according to one New York State Supreme Court judge.
Last week, Steven J. Baum himself sent Joe Nocera, the Times columnist who first published the pictures, an email claiming that Nocera's column destroyed his firm: "There is blood on your hands for this one, Joe… I will never, ever forgive you for this."
Nocera's column certainly couldn't have helped bring the downfall of Baum's foreclosure mill firm without the questionable actions of Baum himself. The filing of "robo-signed" documents, and use of practices that one Long Island judge likened to something out of the "Twilight Zone." Baum paid a $2 million fine in October to settle a Federal case accusing the firm of filing misleading papers to rush through foreclosures. These things combined with the reputation those photographs revealing the soul-less beings that comprised Baum's foreclosure mill earned them brought on the firm's karmic end.
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This guys got some misplaced issues. It will take dozens of years to wash the blood of his hands. What a scumbag.
Great. Maybe these douches will know what unemployment is like now.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
these douches are very rich and can probably live comfortably with having to work another day in their lifetime.
Steven J. Baum, P.C.
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"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
The site is up and running. They even auctioned some homes today, and have about a dozen foreclosure sales scheduled through the end of the month.
I can't figure out why Baum thought that he shouldn't have to affirm that any docs he filed were legit. Federal Rules have always required that docs submitted to the court be certified as accurate. F.R.C.P. 11(b).
I love the line from the judge that heard Baum's arguments as to why the rule shouldn't apply to him, "“We all assumed you took your ethics rules seriously when you started,” Walker said to Fourtner, representing Baum. “But now you the lawyer are on notice, and we’re going to actually hold you to that.”
Baum is a POS.
schadenfreude
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"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Go blow yourself Steven Baum, you callous pig. Your demented and twisted soul put you out of business, not the NYT. You got exactly what you deserve and I hope a life prison sentence is next.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Sad violins.
I know there are people who do not love their fellow humans and I hate people like that. Tom Lehrer
I need to bring out the microscope to find the violin...
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
I'm afraid the violin was mistaken for an electron by a passing ion, and is now orbiting it.
Sounds like it wasn't much of a business to begin with.
When mocking the poor as pathetic
Your actions may turn out prophetic
Now their firms done
And they are the one
Who have been served up justice poetic.
Why would he want or need your forgiveness, Mr. Baum?
Fucking vulture capitalists can suck our collective balls.
of balls.....
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
They best get sucking then. The balls will not suck themselves.
If they did I'd stay home all day!
Now can we eat his children? Broiled on a spit with a touch of BBQ sauce.
99%
Maybe next year these folks won't have to put on their faux-homeless garb in lieu of actually being homeless. Thank you OWS folks for amplifying the narrative so it can be heard above the corporate-owned
'news' broadcasts and bring first awareness, then change, like this.
'Laws were invented to prevent the poor from taking by force what the rich have stolen through cunning.'
is a meal best served COLD.....
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Steven J. Baum needs to stop playing the "blame game" and take some "personal responsibility."
Not really.
Maybe a year from now those wont be costumes. Welcome to the 99%.
is intended to be a factual statement
I wanna do a happy dance.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Typical. "It's everybody's fault but mine."
Does this mean these caring young women will be without a job?
Karma can be a bitch.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I hope that the homelessness that they mocked swiftly becomes their own fate.
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Ignorance is the mother of all religions.
this sucka chump will simply dive back into the sewers from whence he came and climb back to the surface after his odor has dissipated.
Their homeworld was a place called Earth, located in an uninteresting part of the galaxy. They had an expression: pride goeth before a fall. Their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there....They did not listen, of course. Arrogant men never do.
What makes you think he'll wait until the stench clears? I give it two weeks. Three, tops...
Mr Baum...signed the 99%
Payback's a bitch -- what goes around.........
First they ignore us..then they ridicule us..then they fight us..then we win..Gandhi
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And now we're suppose to feel bad for him. After all, he spent 40 years building this company and in one strike of Microsoft Word it's all lost. Just ignore the fact that he and his employees literally killed people by making people homeless then mocked the people he destroyed. I'm guessing he's going to fine with the millions he made over these 40 years. I'm also guessing that all that money he made isn't going to the people who he had to get rid of.
Karma's a bitch.
is intended to be a factual statement
I have kind of a hard time wishing that these people become homeless. The people in those photos need a wake up call of some kind. Maybe being part of the poor would do them good. I would want to see if they change though.
But sometimes, assholes need to walk through fire to discover it burns.
me-oww!
You kind of contradicted yourself. You're not wishing they were homeless but asking for a wake up call hoping they feel what the homeless do. Like I said, no offense at all just thaught it was a little contradictory.
is intended to be a factual statement
I have kind of a hard time wishing that these people become homeless.
I don't.
I'll toss 'em a nickel and say, "Get a job, loser."
That's what karma being a bitch looks like.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Indeed, indeed. Karma's a bitch and you have been served! Cry me a river.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
ten years.
if they're in prison they won't be homeless.....
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
all sent to prison?
compassion they've given to others. Karma is a bitch.
But fear not, Baum and his band of merry band of killers and userers will reform under a new brand name, logo, "value statement," marketing devices and presumably a new awareness that the court of public opinion can still fry these business thugs to a crisp.
Baum had better worry about his own forgiveness issues: the despicable, irredeemable rat.
after they take a bath, of course.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
SHITTY ASSHOLES WIPED OUT:
'We Blame the Paper'
tent reserved for Steven J. Baum in hell.
(Okay, so I don't believe in hell...but right now I'd really really like to.)
As for those employees who took such glee in mocking people who were less fortunate, after stealing from them any chance of keeping their homes...I hope that everyone they know turns their backs on them.
As has been made abundantly clear, "The Internet is forever". No matter where he goes or what he does later, he'll be remembered for what he has said...and done.
And if the mess he and his buddies created ever gets to the point of revolution, well, given the blood he has indirectly shed (who knows how many are dead because of homelessness, inability to get medical care due to poverty, etc. because of the Meltdown, and we're just getting started) he should give some thought as to what his victims might do if the gloves finally come off. Real people are suffering because of him and his ilk. Real blood is being shed, thanks to them. The figurative has become literal, in the worst way. And he and his kind are to blame.
If he has any sense, he'll take what ill-gotten goods he can and beat-feet to a country with no extradition treaty with the US instead of whining like he's the injured party. Because if there is a collapse, the ones higher on the food chain than him will happily 'throw him to the (righteously pissed-off) wolves' as a distraction in their own getaway. After all, there's supposedly no honor among thieves.
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