“These lawyers appear in court with little or no knowledge because they have been poorly trained. Indeed, the case at bar shows that the attorneys from Barrett Burke and McCalla Raymer often appear in court ill-prepared to think or effectively communicate… What kind of culture condones its lawyers lying to the court and then retreating to the office hoping that the court will forget about the whole matter.”

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2008/03/judge-bohm-and-culture-of-incompetence.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/03/06/foreclosure-legal-work-a-shoddy-assembly-line-practice/tab/comments/

I don’t know about you, but I feel – strongly – that Florida is just chock full of this type of shyster attorney. We don’t need to import them; we have plenty of their ilk to say grace over right here, right now. What’s next? McCalla Raymer is going to take up where Stern and Ben-Ezra left off?

What have we done to deserve such largess?

I am finding more and more fraud with each passing day, more layers to the rotten onion. Everytime that you think you have gotten someplace, there are more and more layers. These criminal’s TRY and hide in more ways than can be imagined. William K. Black refers to these crimes in part as “control frauds” .Control frauds are crimes led by the head of state or CEO that use the nation or company as a fraud vehicle. Mr. Black notes the the FBI correctly identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence. There is clear proof of an ongoing criminal enterprise and these crimes should be being treated as such by the FEDS. There have clearly been crimes committed in clear violation of the RICO act. The original drafter of the RICO bill, G. Robert Blakely clearly stated to Time magazine that although the primary intent of RICO was to deal with organized crime, “We don’t want one set of rules for people whose collars are blue or whose names end in vowels, and another set for those whose collars are white and have Ivy League diploma’s. One clear offense under RICO is the crime of securities fraud. Control fraud can also occur in a political situation via kleptocracy. Examples of control fraud include Enron, the Savings and loan crisis, and Ponzi schemes such as Bernie Madoff. So, where are the FEDS? If this were any of us we would have been in federal prison by now.