Report: Foreclosure Firm Threw HOMELESS-THEMED Halloween Party

[Segami]

:mad: How they mock those who have lost their homes and livelihood. Disgusting!



" A New York Times opinion column from Joe Nocera out on Saturday tells the story of last year’s Halloween Party at the law firm called Steven J. Baum, a practice outside Buffalo that the column refers to as a “foreclosure mill.” The firm thought that they would celebrate last Halloween by throwing a homeless-themed party, complete with the staff dressing costumes that made them look destitute and signs describing the various faux problems their characters had. One sign seems to read “Will Worke For Food ” and photos show part of an office named “Baum Estates.”



The pictures were sent to Nocera by a former employee of the firm. Nocera described their conversation like this:

When we spoke later, she added that the snapshots are an accurate representation of the firm’s mind-set. “There is this really cavalier attitude,” she said. “It doesn’t matter that people are going to lose their homes.” Nor does the firm try to help people get mortgage modifications; the pressure, always, is to foreclose.

Nocera also got in touch with the firm to ask about the pictures and the party, which sent him a statement and attacked the paper.

“It has been suggested that some employees dress in … attire that mocks or attempts to belittle the plight of those who have lost their homes,” the statement read. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” It described this column as “another attempt by The New York Times to attack our firm and our work.”

The column also notes that the firm has been under investigation http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/business/09foreclose.html?_r=1
by the New York Attorney General’s Office and recently paidhttp://www.appellate-brief.com/images/stories/PDF/10-6-11USAttyPR.pdf$ 2 million to settle a US Department of Justice investigation


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/top_ny_foreclosure_law_firm_threw_homeless-themed.php?ref=fpa

[TwilightGardener]

1. Yay...how fun.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Oh how I'd love for karma to bite these people in the ass.

[democrank]

3. K & R

As a person who was homeless once in the 1950`s and again in the 1990`s, I find these folks quite comical.

[KittyWampus]

4. I have a dark sense of humor. If my job entailed throwing people out of homes-

I really hope I wouldn't go there.

Seems tasteless.

And heartless

[WinkyDink]

8. "SEEMS"????????

[lunatica]

5. Aww! Let them have their fun

while they can.

[Pisces]

6. Arrogant idiots. Who in upper management would think this is a good idea?

[WinkyDink]

9. Who in upper management would not?

[izquierdista]

7. Next Report: Homeless throw Robespierre themed Foreclosure Party

[WinkyDink]

10. If only. With real guillotines.

[Raksha]

11. Just what I was thinking...where are those tumbrels again?

Think we'll have enough?

[Dover]

12. It brings to mind those audio tapes of the Enron employees mocking

the distress of California citizens.

[Segami]

14. Its deja vu all over again. Just when you think no one is watching or listening.

[Tsiyu]

13. Contact info

http://mbaum.com/SJB/contact.jsp

Phone NumbersPhone: 716-204-2400

Fax: [phone]
716-204-2496

[Laluchacontinua]

15. Fuck those people. Just fuck them. I hope they become homeless. Not worth the saliva it would

take to spit on them.

I heard there are big layoffs coming in the financial sector. May these bums go down with the ship.