"Foreclosure Mill" Lawyers celebrate Halloween by making fun of the unfortunate.

[Serve The Servants]

This is absolutely disgusting.

(Snip)

"...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.

That’s because a former employee of Steven J. Baum recently sent me snapshots of last year’s party. In an e-mail, she said that she wanted me to see them because they showed an appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners — invariably poor and down on their luck — that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against.

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..."

(Link to article)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?_r=3

(Link to the Law firm of Stephen J Baum P.C. Including contact info)

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

[catabryna]

1. The shock wore off two days ago...

but, it's still disgusting. The grass never looks greener on the other side of the fence.

[Serve The Servants]

2. My bad. I'll use the search feature next time. N/T

[catabryna]

4. I apologize. I didn't mean to be snippy. nt

[Serve The Servants]

5. No need to apologize.

I'm currently looking all around DU plus the web about this and it appears that I am literally the last person to know.
I thought I was on top of this one.

[catabryna]

6. LG : -) nt

[Kaleko]

3. Another picture from the foreclosure mill party...

...and a denial by Steven Baum it ever happened.

From the OP article:

"When I called a press spokesman for Steven J. Baum to ask about the photographs, he sent me a statement a few hours later. “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.”"

[Serve The Servants]

7. That woman has apparently been identified.

Someone posted a link to her facebook profile. I've seen it.

Look within some of the comments.
http://gothamist.com/2011/10/29/foreclosure_mill_employees_dressed.php#photo-3

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