Hmmm…

Now this is interesting…

Shapiro & Fishman accuses McCollum of grandstanding

South Florida Business Journal – by Paul Brinkmann

Some excerpts from the report…

Law firm Shapiro & Fishman has accused Attorney General Bill McCollum of pre-election grandstanding and “abuse of power” in connection with McCollum’s recent announcement that his office is conducting a foreclosure fraud investigation into that firm and two others.

The allegations are in response to a coordinated investigation announced by McCollum during an Aug. 10 press conference. McCollum said his office is looking at whether the three South Florida firms engaged in unfair and deceptive actions in their handling of foreclosure cases.

The firm’s response came Friday in a motion to quash a subpoena in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

Read more: Shapiro & Fishman accuses McCollum of grandstanding – South Florida Business Journal

Now, before you go over to the South Florida Business Journal to read the rest of the report, which I suggest you do, lets review what is above…

Specifically;

The firm’s response came Friday in a motion to quash a subpoena in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

Why, do you ask…

Well, I am no expert on getting subpoenaed by the Attorney General, but I do have an inquisitive mind…

Is it because Shapiro and Fishmans’ attorney, Gerald Richman of Richman Greer, is located in Palm Beach County?

Or is it because Gerald Richman of Richman Greer is so tight with PBC Chief Judge Peter Blanc they decided that would be their best venue?

Quote from the Daily Business Review

After a call was made to Sasser’s office seeking comment, attorney Gerald Richman of Richman Greer in West Palm Beach called the Review. He said he “heard” about the article and wanted to speak in support of the judge on behalf of the American Board of Trial Advocates, which he said normally responds to what might be “unfair criticism of judges.”

When pressed about how he found out the Review was working on this article, he said Palm Beach Circuit Chief Judge Peter Blanc asked him to call in support of Sasser, who is prevented from commenting about pending cases and motions for recusal by judicial canon.

You can check out that full article here…

Never understood why they would send in an attorney that represents a foreclosure mill to defend a Judge that was being accused of favoring foreclosure mills, but who am I to question that decision…

I guess Blanc and Richman must be pretty good friends for him to call on him like that…

Anyway, it might be nothing, but my tinfoil hat has been acting up lately so one never knows…

And for the record, these investigations have been going on since late last year. It takes a while to build cases as complex as this.

It has nothing to do with “Grandstanding”. It has to do with the consequences of not responding to these issues when they were in fact known.

How would it look for McCollum if he sat on all the information that has been provided to his office and chose not to do anything about it then the public found out about it? I would say, devastating…

Still think he is “Grandstanding”? Do a Freedom of Information Act Request on his office relating to all the evidence they have on these firms and decide for yourselves.

I promise you won’t be disappointed…

I know I plan on doing one…

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Disclaimer: Not a McCollum supporter but a supporter of Justice.