Wrongful death lawsuit filed over Hermosa Beach foreclosure victim
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies prepare to move Larry Delassus from his wheelchair to the floor where they performed CPR on him until paramedics arrived at the Torrance Courthouse on Dec. 19. Photo by Ed Pilolla Friends of Larry Delassus, the disabled Hermosa Beach Navy veteran who died in court in December while opposing foreclosure of his condominium, filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the bank that declared his loan to be in default and sold his home. Wells Fargo used loan modification applications to identify homes with equity such as Delassus’s, and then illegally seized them, according to the suit. In Delassus’s case, bank representatives refused to help Delassus bring his account current before his home was auctioned off at a profit for the bank, according to the lawsuit. The complaint further charges that Wells Fargo did so while raking in nearly $20 billion in tax breaks. Attorney Anthony Trujillo of Hermosa Beach, Delassus’s former neighbor and friend, filed the lawsuit Monday in downtown Los Angeles on behalf of Debbie Popovich, a close friend of Delassus. “This is a case about greed and one man’s fight for justice in the face of overwhelming odds,”…
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