AG gets will selling house for half its value overturned.
The state attorney general claimed victory Friday in a legal battle stemming from 2005 that challenged the legitimacy of a sales agreement in which an elderly Greenwich woman agreed to sell her home to two men for less than half of what it was worth at the time.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal intervened after Mona Lee Johnson, of Greenwich, agreed to sell her home, estimated to be worth $1.2 million, for $500,000, a month before she died.
The Attorney General’s Office alleged that her neighbor, Mark Lovallo, had urged Johnson to sign off on the sales option while she was sick in the hospital. The deal also included her longtime accountant, David Alfano.
That’s just fine, although the revelation that the old lady was leaving everything to the cat hospital mitigates militates* against a sense of injustice overturned, but why can’t this pomaded blowhard just stop crowing about his puny accomplishments?
“I fought successfully to stop this suspect agreement denying hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities intended to benefit from the home’s sale,” Blumenthal said. “In charity law, the donor’s wishes are paramount. This donor never wished to sell her home at a bargain-basement price, significantly slashing the proceeds to charities named in her will.”
He goes on (and on) but I won’t. I supose the presence of Blumenthal waiting in the wings is the best reason possible to return Chris Dodd to office.