Sweet Justice

SUBHEAD:Homeowners wrongly foreclosed on foreclose on Bank Of America. By Staff on 5 June 2011 for Huffington Post - (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/homeowners-foreclose-on-bank-of-america_n_871540.html) Image above: Demonstrators against Bank of America. From (http://understory.ran.org/2008/07/11/%E2%80%9Cbillionaires-for-coal%E2%80%9D-defend-bank-of-america-investments-in-mountain-top-removal/).

Sweet justice.

That's how foreclosure defense attorney Todd Allen described the feeling of going to a Bank of America branch in Naples, Fla. to seize their assets.

Faced with a pair of sheriff's deputies locking down his building, the branch manager capitulated and handed over a check for $2,534. The sum was to cover Allen's fees from a case where he represented clients that the bank had tried to foreclose on -- despite the fact that they paid for their home in cash.

According to the News-Press in Fort Myers, Bank of America opened their case against Warren and Maureen Nyergers in February of 2010 and voluntarily dropped it two months later, but never coughed up for the couple's legal fees as ordered by a judge.

North Carolina's WFMY has the details on how justice was served:

Sheriff's deputies, movers, and the Nyergers' attorney went to the bank and foreclosed on it. The attorney gave instructions to to remove desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets and any cash in the teller's drawers.

After about an hour of being locked out of the bank, the bank manager handed the attorney a check for the legal fees.

Video above: Video coverage of foreclosure by WINK-TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctLEGrOmf4) .

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