For RNC week: No more eviction notices
TAMPA — With the Republican National Convention coming and Tropical Storm Isaac right behind, who has time for evictions?
Strapped for manpower, Hillsborough sheriff’s deputies next week will temporarily stop serving notices of foreclosures and evictions.
For distressed residents in Tampa and across the county, that could mean an extra week of breathing room.
Hillsborough’s 2,500 deputies, sheriff’s spokesman Larry McKinnon said, will already have a heck of a to-do list, staffing the convention and dealing with any havoc that blows in from the looming tropical storm.
Posting eviction notices? “That’s like worrying about Pluto right now,” McKinnon said. “It’d be silly … if we’ve got traffic gridlock, traffic lights out, trees down everywhere, and we’re out serving evictions.”
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It’s an outrage HSBC Bank USA doesn’t had its U.S. banking licenses revoked for money laundering around the world.
(See The New York Times, 08/24/2012)
Bank crime shouldn’t pay.