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You're FIRED! | Erin Collins Cullaro, Pam Bondi's Assistant Attorney Gerneral FIRED for "Moonlighting" at Foreclosure Mill, Florida Default Law Group
"The best way to stop an investigation is to become one of the investigators"
4closureFraud 2010
It's about damn time...
Been sitting on this one for a few weeks. Was waiting until someone in the media picked it up...
We
knew something was up from the search traffic on Cullaro from various
media outlets to the site, especially the NY Times, and confirmed her
termination last week.
Moral to the story is, media, please keep the attention on fraudclosures. We would not be this far without you.
Assistant attorney general tied to foreclosure mill fired
By SHANNON BEHNKEN | The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA
-- The attorney general's office has fired Erin Cullaro, an assistant
Florida attorney general reprimanded last year for moonlighting for a
"foreclosure mill."
The termination follows a second reprimand in
March from Gov. Rick Scott's office, which questioned variations of her
signature on legal documents.
The signature that was used to
notarize affidavits of "reasonable attorney fees" is not the same
signature she was commissioned to use, according to a letter from
Scott's office.
The April termination came from the office of
Attorney General Pam Bondi. Jenn Meale, communications director for
Bondi's office, said "when the management team reviewed its personnel,
they decided to terminate (Cullaro's) employment." Meale offered no
further explanation.
Ricardo A. Roig, a Tampa lawyer who represents Cullaro, said "there is no evidence of wrongdoing."
"There's
no question Erin complied with the spirit and the letter of the law,"
Roig said. "There are differences in her signatures, but a lot of people
change the way they sign their name."
You can check out the rest of the report here...
Much more below....
As
for the signatures, NOBODY changes their signatures like the examples
above. Especially when they would vary from week to week.
Here is a copy of an Oath she signed back in 1996…
Her "real" signature sure looks like the examples above /sarcasm...
Anyway, for those who do not know who Ms Cullaro is, we will provide some background...
Way
back in 2009, we discovered Ms Cullaro was working for both the
Attorney General's Economic Crimes division at the same time she was
working for the Florida Default Law Group, an entity that her office was
investigating.
The following ensued...
From March 2010...
LINK
- Scandalous – Substantiated Allegations of Foreclosure Fraud That
Implicates the Florida Attorney General’s Office and The Florida Default
Law Group
Attached here is a must
read Motion along with a copy of a transcript from a hearing held in a
Volusia County Courtroom. The Motion lays out a very disturbing set of
allegations…
This is a foreclosure action filed by WELLS FARGO
BANK, NA (the “BANK”). The BANK is represented by Florida Default Law
Group, P.L. (“FDLG”). On behalf of the BANK in this case, and on behalf
of other clients in other cases, FDLG filed affidavits to establish that
the attorneys’ fees it was allegedly paid were reasonable. The
affidavits purport to have been executed by Lisa Cullaro, the appointed
expert on attorneys’ fees. The notary who allegedly administered
the expert’s oath and vouched for her signature was Erin Cullaro, a
former employee of FDLG and now an Assistant Attorney General in the
Economic Crimes Division of the Office of the Attorney General.
Economic Crimes Division. The same Economic Crimes Division that investigates firms like the FDLG?
What is it that William Black said?
“The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One“
Well How about this…
“The best way to stop an investigation is to become one of the investigators“
Not
only was Erin just a former employee, it looks like she was one of the
lead counsel for Michael Echeverria, the owner of FDLG (Florida Default Law Group)
Just recently their website http://www.echevarria.com/AttorneyProfiles.htm went “offline” but Google cashed version is here…
I also archived it here…
The
public records request also revealed that Ms. Cullaro completed a
“Request for Approval of Dual Employment” (From the Florida Attorney
General’s Office) in which she certified that her secondary job
notarizing documents “does not create a conflict of interest (as
specified in Chapter 112, Part III, Florida Statutes) nor the appearance
of impropriety…” Ms. Cullaro’s dual employment was limited to Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays between 7:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Defendants
proffer that they will show affidavits executed on days other than
those approved by the Office of the Attorney General and that travel
records suggest that Ms. Cullaro would have not been present in Florida
on the date and time that an affidavit was notarized.
Mind blowing, isn't it?
But wait, there's more...
After all this broke, we came to find out about this...
LINK
- Erin Collins Cullaro – Assistant Attorney General? Florida Default
Law Group Attorney? OR The Presiding Judge that Forecloses on Your Home?
13TH CIRCUIT JNC ANNOUNCES CANDIDATES FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY COURT JUDICIAL VACANCY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2009
CONTACT: Pedro F. Bajo, Jr., Chairman; pedro.bajo@akerman.com ,
13th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission
TELEPHONE: (813) 223-7333
The
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission is pleased
to announce the following candidates will be interviewed for appointment
to the currently vacant position of county court judge in and for
Hillsborough County:
Lawrence Anzalone
Robert A. Bauman
Patrick Bowler Courtney
Erin Collins Cullaro
Fortunately, she did not get the position...
Pretty crazy right? Well, it gets even better...
After
Erin and her sister in law were caught with their hands in the
foreclosure cookie jar, they “promised” in court not to do it ever
again…
“The Cullaros Promise Not to Provide Any More Expert or Notary Services…”
Next,
the Cullaros promise this Court that they have ceased providing any
expert witness or notary services to FDLG “and have no intention” to so
in the future”.
Instead they found a replacement to handle the workload for the foreclosure mill...
LINK
- Guess the Money is too Good to Pass Up – Introducing the Cullaros New
Replacement – Expert Witness for Reasonable Attorneys Fees for FDLG
Florida Default Law Group
After they were caught with their hands in the foreclosure cookie jar, they “promised” not to do it ever again…
“The Cullaros Promise Not to Provide Any More Expert or Notary Services…”
Next,
the Cullaros promise this Court that they have ceased providing any
expert witness or notary services to FDLG “and have no intention” to so
in the future”.
Kind of like when a shoplifter gets caught
walking out of the store with some merchandise, then trying to give it
back promising never to do it again to avoid being prosecuted, right?
Well, to my surprise, it seems like they are living up to their promise, kind of…
It looks like Erin Cullaro and Lisa Cullaro are no longer providing Expert or Notary services to the FDLG.
Since they have been replaced by JOHN CULLARO, ERIN’S CULLARO’S HUSBAND!!!
Interestingly enough, John Cullaro is a DUI Defense Attorney who now is also an “Expert Witness” for Reasonable Attorney Fees for Foreclosure cases.
Go figure…
Guess
the FDLG money is too great to pass up, even if it opens the door to
potential depositions and other legal issues that may haunt John in the
months to come…
So there you have it. It was a long time coming.
Oh,
and one last thing. The tribune also mentioned something about
Cullaro's "termination follows a second reprimand in March from Gov.
Rick Scott's office, which questioned variations of her signature on
legal documents."
Wonder what that was all about... Oh, yea, it was this... Lisa has her hand in everything...
Erin Cullaro Response to Notary Complaint
Lisa Epstein's Response to Erin and Lisa Cullaro
www.4closureFraud.org
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+1 for execution for treason.
We can get to the moral high ground issue after the hanging.
I'm all for free houses and even distribution of credit notes but calling for some poor lass's head for trying to do her best under the current system kinda takes you off the moral high ground dontcha think?
Fox [leaning casually against henhouse door] :
"Nothing to see here, move along. Everything is in order."
dickensonian
Actions such as these are grounds for disbarment if not dismemberment. Lord knows the attorney unemployment rate is too high! Wait- er, I mean... too low.
What happened to Linda Green?
In any case, dragging this on in court will hold RE values down for years to come.Furthermore, who wants to buy a house with a legal cloud over it. Sellers are now sueing buyers for thier house back claiming fraud after title closing and AFTER the buyer has already moved it.
"Renting is cheaper then buying." No wonder.
No wonder.
you people in florida are really making progress. a person with a conflict of interest gets fired. omg. that's soooo newsworthy and upstanding. you go girl.
I would bring up the obvious NYC/DC axis but what's the point, we're just rubes ya know? ;-)
There are countries where people are executed for lesser crimes.
I think someone has photoshoped her hair in that picture, those look like irish setter ears to me
Hilarious, a walking Economic Crime worked for the AG's Economic Crime Division.
It looks like Erin Cullaro and Lisa Cullaro are no longer providing Expert or Notary services to the FDLG.
Since they have been replaced by JOHN CULLARO, ERIN’S CULLARO’S HUSBAND!!!
Interestingly enough, John Cullaro is a DUI Defense Attorney who now is also an “Expert Witness” for Reasonable Attorney Fees for Foreclosure cases.
Go figure…
Amazing ain't it.
As a Fla. resident I say well done Pam & Rick.
Now bring her up on state criminal charges and refer the matter to the Feds under RICO...its a family affair...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RmKBFND9SY
sounds like the Clintons
Those wacky wacky murdering clintons.
http://www.etherzone.com/body.html
Airports, midnight rendevous, Loral Space & Commerce Dept., Norman Hsu...etc. ;-)
But we need to shine light on the current set of ne'er do wells not the last, IMO.
Is it too much to ask for proper vetting before we do this all over again?...LOL.
Funny...my signature has not changed in 40 years...but I guess if you are a lawyer the squiggly lines can always be argued to mean something different than the naked eye sees so easily...
FRAUD
It looks like it got shorter too.
That is a person who should be in JAIL. Forget just firing her... and everyone who forged the signature of the assisrtant attornery general should also be in jail ... and everyone who employed them and instructed them to forge documents and all of the executive staff and directors of the companies that had their people forge documents should be in jail ...
.... or executed for treason. Take your pick.
The justice system doesn't prosecute anyone anymore for complete betrayal of the public trust. Didn't ya know?
It appears it's easier to get someone assassinated (OBL) then it is to get someone prosecuted (no one) these days.
Yeah, 'justice' is just gone now.
In the new workplace safety cult-ure, if there's an accident the employer and supervisor can get totally nailed by seriously HUGE fines, and or jailed for having someone doing something very dumb and seriously getting injured, or else die at work, and the families of employer and supervisor are bankrupted, and will loose their house to pay fines and legal fees.
It's part of state example-making, to scare everyone into strict compliance - with ANY silly ordinance.
The letter of the Law killeth.
Yet people like this one above basically get away with destroying families and businesses all the time - no jail, no fines, no bankruptcy, no loss of house and assets, no family dissolution.
Just clear out your desk ... i.e. you are essentially forgiven, because fundamentally we don't give a damn what sort of deceitful and damaging public menace you are for the proles.
justice = "just us" - it does not apply to these people.
absolutely - there is ample material for criminal prosecution