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Attorney Kenneth Davis of Stamford, CT; repeat offender
The state of Connecticut provided Kenneth R. Davis with a law license in 1971.
The Statewide Grievance Committee found Kenneth guilty of the following misconduct
Kenneth represented a client and Helen E. O’Reilly with regard to a real estate closing. As a result of the closing the client loaned O’Reilly $637,500 in mortgage funds, and O’Reilly executed all required mortgage documents. The closing related to a residence known as 7 Hart Landing in Guilford, Connecticut. Kenneth recorded the mortgage deed securing his client’s loan on the Guilford Land Records.
Subsequently, O’Reilly defaulted on the mortgage loan, causing the client to initiate a foreclosure action. The contract for the sale of the residence was executed between O’Reilly and Jeffrey Navin. Several weeks after the closing, Navin sold the resident to Patrick Berkery. Berkery was the seller of the residence at the closing.
Kenneth previously represented both Jeffrey Navin and Patrick Berkery in regards to different legal matters unrelated to the aforementioned closing. The sales price of the residence was $1.4 million. O’Reilly’s original application to the client was for a $910,000 mortgage loan. At the time of the closing, the residence was encumbered by $773,783 of prior recorded liens and/or attachments, a fact that Kenneth was aware of.
Prior to the closing, Kenneth received written closing instructions from his client, including her requirement that all outstanding liens/attachments be satisfied prior to the closing. By the time the client initiated the foreclosure action, the liens/attachments were not satisfied. Kenneth never informed his client about the prior recorded liens/attachments prior to her initiating the foreclosure action.
Kenneth then lied to his client when he told her she had a 1st place priority lien on the residence. In fact, Kenneth never secured a 1st place priority for his client’s mortgage lien. More importantly, Kenneth never informed his client of his prior representation of Navin or Berkery before the closing of the residence took place.
This wasn’t Kenneth’s 1st bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree. Three years earlier, the comedians sitting on the Grievance Commission punished Kenneth by gifting him with his first complimentary reprimand.
As a consequence of his misconduct, the apologists for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Statewide Grievance Committee punished Kenneth by gifting him with a complimentary reprimand.
As we speak (ca. November 2012) Kenneth practices at 1010 Summer Street in Stamford, Connecticut.
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