DISGUSTING!!! -Law Firm MOCKS Homeless & OWS With Tasteless Halloween Costumes

[kpete]

The dark side

by digby

This is what Occupy Wall Street is responding to:

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The party is the firm’s big annual bash. Employees wear Halloween costumes to the office, where they party until around noon, and then return to work, still in costume. I can’t tell you how people dressed for this year’s party, but I can tell you about last year’s.

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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. I told her I wanted to post the photos on The Times’s Web site so that readers could see them. She agreed, but asked to remain anonymous because she said she fears retaliation.

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Let me describe a few of the photos. In one, two Baum employees are dressed like homeless people. One is holding a bottle of liquor. The other has a sign around her neck that reads: “3rd party squatter. I lost my home and I was never served.” My source said that “I was never served” is meant to mock “the typical excuse” of the homeowner trying to evade a foreclosure proceeding.



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A second picture shows a coffin with a picture of a woman whose eyes have been cut out. A sign on the coffin reads: “Rest in Peace. Crazy Susie.” The reference is to Susan Chana Lask, a lawyer who had filed a class-action suit against Steven J. Baum — and had posted a YouTube video denouncing the firm’s foreclosure practices. “She was a thorn in their side,” said my source.

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/dark-side.html
MORE Pics here:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/top_ny_foreclosure_law_firm_threw_homeless-themed.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TPMmuckraker+%28TPMmuckraker%29

[lonestarnot]

1. worthless eaters defending worthless eaters. We will have to eat the 1%ers.

[Why Syzygy]

2. nah ..

I think we should just use them for fertilizer.

[Ship of Fools]

5. Stocking up on chili sauce as we speak.

:)

[lonestarnot]

8. green or red, habanero or green chile?

mmmmmmmm.mmmmmmmmm.m.

[999998th word]

23. May find concentrations of lead too high to be safe for human consumption.

I wouldn't touch THAT shit with my bare hands, let alone EAT it.:puke:

[savalez]

3. Link

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

[TBF]

4. This must be the firm -

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

And here is their page on giving back: http://mbaum.com/SJB/givingback.jsp

Hypocritical assholes.

[lonestarnot]

9. Why you no name the firm?

[TBF]

11. Can you read? The link is right there - Steven J. Baum, PC

Do I need to read the rest of the web site for you as well?

[lonestarnot]

12. Thank you. That's better. And do not want to go to that site so yeah, please do.

[savalez]

15. It could have been more clear.

The two sources got right to the identity of the law office in the first sentence, the OP buried it.

[lonestarnot]

16. Pigs not buried deep enough stank!

[occupyeverywhere]

6. Kick for exposure

disgusting

[hobbit709]

7. "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

[lonestarnot]

10. The poor are so litigious.

:sarcasm: :thumbsdown: No justice no peace no crooked police.

[lunatica]

13. Their laughter is probably getting a little forced this year

And the OWS is the cemetery they're assiduously whistling at as they rush to their offices.

[Modern_Matthew]

14. Disgusting human beings. nt

[goddess40]

17. Disgusting women

This is so far from being funny. It's sick and cruel.

[solarman350]

18. I Know How This Could End for the 1%ers....

Go watch (for free--online), "The Road." That'll pretty much be how the1%ers (and eventually, the rest of us)" meet our weird....."

http://www.screen4u.net/video/20651621fa35558ab4d7322af664c829
or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6arDlAAF4Y&NR=1
(you can keep watching this movie in pieces this way if need be)


Here's a link to the official trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLgszfXTAY

--Advise you not to try to eat during or after this film....

Happy Halloween,
solarman350

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. horrible. Glad someone released the snapshots.

[trueblue2007]

20. french revolution time..... GUILLOTINE!! GUILLOTINE!!

[flvegan]

21. Based on that sign, they also mock the Rules of Civil Procedure.

Shame on you lawyers for allowing this sort of thing. Due Process should never be mocked.

[Mimosa]

22. Sad K&R.

Those attorneys are actually parasites and they don't even know it.

[annm4peace]

24. here is what they are making fun of. This is reality . not a halloween act

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/27/18695578.php


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2208875

http://fresnoalliance.com/wordpress/?p=1313

[ChairmanAgnostic]

25. In Illinois this would be a violation of ethics.

We have a rule which bars you from such behavior against your opponents.

[tooeyeten]

26. Proud

Those are some fine human beings, they're parents and children should be proud.:wtf: