Attorney General warns law firms to stop illegal evictions

Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, announced a initiative to help tenants of foreclosed properties, including cease-and-desist letters urging law firms, real estate companies and banks and loan servicers to stop abrupt and illegal evictions. New state and federal laws passed last year are supposed to protect renters in foreclosed properties from getting tossed out with little or no notice. But the state attorney general and legal aid lawyers said Monday there is strong evidence that those laws are being violated — and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of tenants have been pressured to leave sooner than legally required.

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