Friend got it with this at a vacation home.Forget the billing and fix the problem:First take better pictures of the meter and the connection for evidence.Get an electrical contractor to come out, disconnect the illegal connection and install a security box with a lock so there's no access to the power  connects.Write a letter, send it Certified to the neighbor with copies of the tampering that this is criminal fraud and theft and if it occurs again, they will be prosecuted - - clearly note a copy has been sent to the Utility Company.You might research the owner of the property and send a copy to them also (in case it might be rented).You didn't start this but need to control it.

Insurance may or may not satisfy the plaintiff's demands or the judgement entered against you.Business entity structures are there to prevent or lessen the impact of litigation should someone believe they have cause to sue and reduce the likelihood of that litigation being prosecuted successfully.

WARNING: HUD will prosecute false claims and statements.Conviction may result in criminal and/or civil penalties.(18 U.S.C. 1001, 1010, 1012; 31 U.S.C. 3729, 3802)

While she might not get criminally prosecuted, in civil court you can imagine what some of the counter claims might be.  

He's obligated to a fudiciary relationship with both parties but it is the equivalent of have one lawyer for defense and prosecution . .

[emphasis added.]This is threatening criminal prosecution for a civil contract matter, when there wasn't even a contract in place! 

Do you know of anyone selling their assignable contract being prosecuted for braking some law?  

It could be as simple as the bank just needs to start the process all over again and just declined to do that.If you take title subject to the loan and the bank starts the foreclosure again.. unless you have written authorization from who ever the banks client is you will play heck trying to communicate with them.from what you posted the lien is there its valid and the lender is just not doing anything with it..Now in those robo cases or in the case of lost documents there are still ways for the banks to prosecute those foreclosures.But maybe one of the Flordia guys will chim in ...

In MA just having an unregistered gun is heavily prosecuted with jail time.

Whether or not anyone has been prosecuted on it (or if it is even plausible ), I don't know.