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Fensterman firm’s many entanglements

Consider it a legal story with a bit of New York political backdrop. Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the actions of the Lake Success law firm whose founder and managing partner, Howard Fensterman, has cordial ties to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and many other political figures.

The civil probe of Abrams Fensterman LLP involves the firm’s “potentially illegal” debt collection practices, court papers show. The firm has sued friends and relatives of nursing home residents to collect on bills owed. Those “third parties” signed “admission agreements” when the clients went into the homes. But the AG argues the agreements “do not make the third parties personally liable for residents’ debts.” The firm has sought to qua

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