Cleveland Housing Court Judge Begins Belting Lenders With Contempt Citations For Failing To Answer For Code Violations On Dilapidated Foreclosures

In Cleveland, Ohio, The Plain Dealer reports:One day last month, Cleveland Housing Court Judge Raymond Pianka waited for absentee owners facing charges that they neglected their property to come and explain why they shouldn't be held in contempt. The mostly out-of-town companies had been no-shows at previous hearings, and now it looked as if they would be missing again, despite Pianka's