Sarasota Herald Tribune - Banker Rethinks His Plea of Guilty

Sarasota Herald Tribune Continuing Media Series:  Mortgage Fraud and Victim Rights, comments by Alan E. Tannenbaum, Managing Partner, Levin Tannenbaum.

Sarasota attorney Alan Tannenbaum, who represents more than 100 Coast loan customers, convinced the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December that the borrowers were victims under the federal Crime Victims Rights Act.

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 "It was the most favorable decision the victims could have hoped for", Tannenbaum said Friday.

Tannenbaum invoked the Crime Victims' Rights Act on behalf of 104 Coast borrowers.