Quick Answer: Yes, the Florida Bar complaints against Howard Feinmel appear legitimate based on official Florida Bar action for his involvement with Fidelity Land Trust, a company shut down by the Florida Attorney General. Feinmel continued filing “frivolous and meritless” mortgage cancellation cases despite being told by a Palm Beach County judge in 2012 that his legal arguments lacked merit.
Florida attorney Howard Feinmel seems to hav in hot waeter according to the Palm Beach Post. Kimberly Miller is reporting the Florida Bar has taken action against Feinmel for his participation with the company the Florida Attorney General went after, Fidelity Land Trust.
Fidelity Land Trust was closed by the Attorney General after “charging the company, its operators and affiliate firms with selling homeowners on a complicated legal “scheme” that promised to make underwater mortgages disappear.”
According to the Florida Bar complaint, Feinmel “was told by Palm Beach County Judge Thomas H. Barkdull in 2012 that his argument trying to cancel a mortgage was without merit.”
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“Despite having such actual knowledge, respondent continued to file similar frivolous and meritless actions based on similar legal theory,” the Bar complaint says. “Numerous such cases were ultimately dismissed by different courts.”
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