Legislator: State Marshal Double-Billing Is Illegal

[Heard it before]

MEGNA sounds like a typical SLUMLORD. Neglect the taxes, neglect the property, whine about the added charges when the city forecloses, cry that the tenants don't pay him enough (and usually that he gave them a big break when he let them move in), gripe about the cost to evict the miserable tenant and complain that HE's NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY ON HIS INVESTMENT, yada, yada yada

[Mule Haas]

The whole foreclosure system is a ripoff. A handful of politically connected marshals and lawyers have made many millions of dollars out of the system. Can it be a coincidence that out of hundreds of marshals only a select few get this lucrative foreclosure work? A coincidence that out of thousands of law firms in the state, only two are allowed todo foreclosure work? I don't think so. This stinks worse than three day old fish.

[Plain Jane]

There are honest marshals who do a needed service, sometimes under difficult conditions, and do not overcharge or cheat the public. All we have to do is examine the records of those obviously corrupt and arrogant marshals who are above the law. If the Marshals Commission does not question the decency of this behavior, regardless of whether this process slipped thru the written law, they are complicit. If the legislature does not fix this now they are also complicit. This issue is disgusting. Who in our government will take this on? Apparently nobody gives a ------.

[jim]

thanks rell say how much do you make?

[Ugh]

Megna is a cry baby wrote:

http://www.jud2.ct.gov/housing /display_docket.asp?dno=NHSP-0 85976
(Click the above link) Holy cow... Megna uses a State Marshal to evict a tenant that didn't pay him rent... wow, the Hartford Courant really researched this Megna guy before they quoted him... Sounds like a eal fraud to me. He fails to pay his own taxes, while owning other property that he evicts people out of, all the while he is getting a state paycheck and a private paycheck... NOW THAT WHAT I CALL DOUBLE-DIPPING. Way to go Courant for yet another story about nothing, Seinfeld could have done a whole show on this Megna thing

Ha! Ha! I'd LOVE to see him try and find a Marshal now that will serve anything for him!

[guapo]

Put him in jail,the thief.They are a bunch of idots.

[Mule Haas]

The whole foreclosure system rots from the head. The system is geared to allowing a select few to profit from the distress of others. There is only one explanation for why only a tiny group of the state marshals and law firms are allowed to participate. Someone's palm is getting greased.There is no other logical explanation.

[Super Marshal]

Smoke em if you got em wrote:

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FU! How about those of us who a paying fees to get papers served so we can collect? The debtor does not pay for the service you MORON. The person trying to collect does.

If you really knew what you were talking about you would know that the fees you paid the marshal are added to the judgment and are paid by the debtor when you collect, MORON.....

[Super Marshal]

Tommy wrote:

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Barney Fife could do your job more efficiently and he can spell.
The correct spelling of your "listining" is listening; "loosers" is losers and "dont" is don't.
If you knew what you're talking about you'd know that the server used for my posts is located in White Horse Beach, MA. and that I don't necessarily live there.

Aren't you special.......

[Super Marshal]

Mule Haas wrote:

The whole foreclosure system rots from the head. The system is geared to allowing a select few to profit from the distress of others. There is only one explanation for why only a tiny group of the state marshals and law firms are allowed to participate. Someone's palm is getting greased.There is no other logical explanation.

You people talk without knowing how the system works. A lawyer can hire any marshal he wants, he is not obligated to spread the work around. If you have a good marshal, you stick with him. If a guy fixes your car good are you going to use another mechanic or stick with the good one? Same with law firms. All these lawyers whining about how they cant get forclosure work. The truth is they could not afford to do the work at the low fees that are charged by the 2 big firms, its all in the volume of work.

[chris]

Bingo the Cat wrote:

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However, perhaps your employed had a debt that she refused to honor. There are always two sides to an issue. I am concerned about the corruption of the position, not the method of legit collection.

not defending her just think the fees are outragous

[Sick-o-Congress Blowhards]

Gotta love Corrupticut....wish I made $100 grand a year... oh yeah I'm not a politician or politically connected...

[hunter s thompson]

wheres the KING wrote:

No doubt these Marshalls put plenty of mula in the KINGS campaign or is it his pockets. Notice how the KING is never to be found when it comes to politicial corruption. Just what is the KING hiding

LOL!

Huh?

[hammer]

Super Marshal wrote:

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You people talk without knowing how the system works. A lawyer can hire any marshal he wants, he is not obligated to spread the work around. If you have a good marshal, you stick with him. If a guy fixes your car good are you going to use another mechanic or stick with the good one? Same with law firms. All these lawyers whining about how they cant get forclosure work. The truth is they could not afford to do the work at the low fees that are charged by the 2 big firms, its all in the volume of work.

super doooshbag. time for you to find an honest job

[Parangi SIngh]

Isn't it interesting that the two law firms that control foreclosure work in Connecticut, Bendett and McHugh, and Hunt and Liebert, both use Fiorillo to do service of process for them. The lawyers at both firms see each and every bill submitted by Fiorillo and the lawyers obviously know that these bills are ludicrous. Yet the lawyers don't care because it is the poor homeowners who have to fork over the money for these exorbitant marshal fees. I just wonder how many struggling homeowners lost their home because these poor souls could not come up with an extra few hundred dollars to pay Fiorillo's absurd bills. And I hold the lawyers at the two law firms responsible for choosing to hire a marshal who is willing to gouge people.
In my home country of India, this could never happen.

[Mule Haas]

In other states the process servers and attorneys have to compete for foreclosure work. Because they have to compete the fees are much lower and a distressed homeowner is not socked with outrageous fees such as four hundred dollars to deliver a piece of paper. What a job. You drive down the block, toss a piece of paper on somebody's front lawn and bill four hundred dollars. The lawyers are not any better either. Since they do not have to compete for the work they can charge whatever they want. Everyone knows that these fellows do not get the work through honest competition. It's called greasing the old palm.