NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) – A process server working for a once-prolific foreclosure law firm in upstate New York broke the law by failing to keep any record of papers served in a 2008 foreclosure case, a Long Island judge has ruled, giving defense attorneys a new angle to explore in foreclosure cases as they seek to buy time for their financially beleaguered clients to modify or refinance their mortgages.
Gary Cardi, a former police officer contracted by A&J Process Service — which has offices on the same floor in the same building as the foreclosure firm Steven J. Baum PC — admitted in Nassau County court last October that he didn’t have any record of serving foreclosure papers on Soledad Murillo in 2008. In fact, he told state Supreme Court Justice F. Dana Winslow during an October hearing, he hasn’t kept records of any of the “thousands” of cases he served over the last six years.
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NY judge: Sloppy service has legal consequences
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