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Sherron L. Lewis Jr., 54, has been permanently barred from providing foreclosure-relief services, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today. Suthers said in final judgement entered by a Jefferson County District Court Judge, Lewis also is required to pay $181,266 to the state in restitution, fines and costs.
The judgement was entered after Lewis failed to respond to the state’s lawsuit regarding his illegal foreclosure-relief activities.
Complaint filed last summer
According to a complaint the state filed last July, Lewis charged homeowners an upfront fee and obtained an interest in their homes with the promise that he could stop their foreclosures. The complaint alleges that after accepting his fees, Lewis would assist consumers in filing legal challenges to the foreclosures. Judges have repeatedly dismissed Lewis’ challenges as meritless.
A Jefferson County District Court judge previously ordered Lewis to pay more than $76,000 in restitution to his victims, including an elderly Illinois woman under a preliminary injunction the court ordered last August. The fines ordered against Lewis in August stemmed from his practice of collecting an upfront fee and acquiring an interest in his victims’ properties as part of his services, both of which violate Colorado law.
