Obviously fraud has occurred, but my client is well outside the three year statute of limitations for making a charge of fraud and it would be his word against the interpreters.

When  a tenant starts off with language like  "it's the law" and by citing landlord tenant statutes, it's a big turn off and tells me the tenant is trying to leverage the situation by getting all legal on me.

In my own personal opinion, I believe there will be litigation in the future as to State pre-emption of at-will tenancy notice under Minnesota Statute 504B and these new municipal regulations that seek to regulate the same area of law in a more stringent manner.  

That aside the Tax Sale Statutes are not difficult to read IC:6-1.1-25.

The sale is made pursuant to Chapter 5, Title 54 of the Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey, as amended, industrial Properties may be subject to the Spill Compensation and Control Act (N.J.S.A. 58:12-23.11 et seq), the Water Pollution Control Act (N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq) and the Industrial Site Recover Act (N.J.S.A. 13:1K-6 et seq).

As far as HOW could someone be prosecuted: it is there in the state statutes.

The section they sign when they are moving out, they are also declaring they understand that once this move out report is complete, they are also releasing the property to us and any property inside is considered abandoned (make sure you quote the specific state statutes regarding abandoned property) and the cost of it's removal is a cost bore by them.  

Typically, the whole process takes six months to a year.For more about formal probate, see the Florida Bar Association’s pamphlet on probate.Probate Attorneys’ FeesFlorida is one of the few states that sets out, in its statutes, lawyers’ fees that are presumed to be reasonable for estates of a certain value.

There may be WA state statutes that allow further penalties for purposeful tenant damage (willful, grossly negligent). 

I have only been doing a couple years but made sure to read all the books, watch all the videos, and learn every statute before I spent any money.