Fort Lauderdale Foreclosure Attorneys Offer Free Legal Service During Government Shutdown
Channel: Roy Oppenheim
Date: 2019-01-14

Fort Lauderdale Foreclosure Attorneys Offer Free Legal Service During Government Shutdown.

Roy Oppenheim of Oppenheim Law in Weston is offering free legal services to federal employees until they receive their next paycheck.

“There are going to be a lot of folks who are now going to be facing foreclosures, they’re going to be facing evictions, they’re going to be facing the inability to close on a home,” said Oppenheim, “and what we’re going to do is, we’re going to help these folks and make sure that their rights are properly represented.”

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Partial Transcript:
A major airport affected by the record-breaking partial government
shutdown. Miami International Airport keeping a terminal closed all weekend
due to a TSA staff shortage. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees now
officially not being paid in this historic shutdown. -
[Man 1] So one south Florida law firm is doing its part to help. Night Team's
Franklin White is live in Weston with more. Franklin. - [Franklin] As you can
imagine unpaid federal workers are doing their best just to survive and to help
protect them from things like evictions, this attorney is stepping up and
stepping in.
- [Man 2] Scary that we're not united, and the person's that's in charge of us is
just...doesn't really care about us.
- This TSA worker too afraid to even show his face works at MIA and is doing
his best to make ends meet with no recent paycheck during what's now the
longest government shutdown in US history.
- I have a family of four children and my ex-spouse is also employed at TSA,
which is not making any kind of situation better.
- He tells 7 News he's still been going to work each and every day but not
getting paid for it, and now his bills are piling up.
- I'm pretty responsible with my money, so I can make it stretch a little bit, but,
hopefully, not more than a month.
- This shutdown has affected thousands of federal workers around the nation,
many of whom have not gotten a paycheck. And as a result, TSA workers have
been calling in sick forcing airports like Miami International to shut down their
G terminal and also forced Houston&#39;s Bush Airport to shut down their B
terminal, while they both scramble and shuffle TSA workers to other terminals
to help fill in the gaps.
But until this shutdown comes to an end, Roy Oppenheim of Oppenheim Law
in Weston is offering free legal services to federal workers until they're paid. -
[Roy] There are gonna be a lot of folks who are gonna now be facing
foreclosure, they're gonna be facing eviction, they're gonna be facing the
inability to close on a home. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna help these
folks and make sure that their rights are properly represented.