Connecticut Marshalls made millions delivering foreclosure notices

[NewJeffCT]

I guess I'm in the wrong line of work...

Connecticut Marshals Make Millions Serving Foreclosure Papers

By DAVE ALTIMARI And MATTHEW KAUFFMAN | Courant Staff Writers

Last year, John T. Fiorillo earned almost twice as much as University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and more than 10 times the salary of Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

The Bristol resident grossed more than $2 million, but not by coaching a team to the Final Four or running state government. Fiorillo is a self-employed state marshal who serves legal papers to people about to lose their homes through foreclosure.

Fiorillo's bounty can be attributed to his relationship with two law firms — Hunt Leibert Jacobson and Reiner, Reiner and Bendett — that have a virtual monopoly on the burgeoning foreclosure market.

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-marshals0623.artjun23,0,3244766.story

[indepat]

1. Unconscionable compensation for trafficking in the misery of others

:mad:

[LiberalAndProud]

2. "burgeoning foreclosure market"

a boon to the economy?

[Merlot]

3. Don't shoot the messenger

The guy's doing a job and making money. The brokers who wrote the loans made the big bucks. The banks that bought and sold the loans made big bucks. Bigger than this guys bounty.

[Fumesucker]

4. Just exactly WTF is:

"A self-employed state marshal"?

Kind of like a self-employed Supreme Court Justice.