Tag Archives: Enforcement Action

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Attorney General of Georgia yesterday announced a consent order with a debt relief and credit repair company and its owners that were accused of deceiving consumers into hiring the company to lower or eliminate credit card debt and improve the consumers’ credit scores. …

The Attorney General of Washington yesterday announced an enforcement action against a collection agency for alleged unlawful debt collection practices, including assessing fees and costs to individuals without not collecting any money from them, operating without a license for more than a year, and failing to offer legally required garnishment …

The Attorney General of Massachusetts has announced a settlement with a healthcare provider that will see the company pay $260,000 — including a civil penalty of $185,000 — after it was accused of failing to disclose to patients that it was not part of their insurance network and seeking to …

The Federal Trade Commission has banned those behind a student loan debt relief scam from providing debt relief services as part of a settlement that the agency announced earlier this week. One of the defendants will also make a monetary payment of $11,500 as part of an overall judgment against …

A District Court judge in Massachusetts has been asked to sign off on a settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a debt settlement company that was sued for allegedly engaging in abusive and deceptive acts and practices by charging fees before it performed any services and collecting higher …

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a $20 million settlement with a company accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by improperly obtaining individuals’ credit reports and the FTC’s Red Flags Rule for failing to implement an identity theft program. The company, Vivint Smart Homes, will pay a $15 …

The Attorney General of Indiana has obtained a $1.3 million judgment against a collection agency and its owner that were accused of engaging in deceptive and abusive collection practices and operating without a proper license. The AG filed a lawsuit against New Britain Financial and its founder, Nelson Macwan, last …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced it had entered into a consent order with a debt collector and its owner for falsely threatening to take legal action against individuals and that the company and the owner have been permanently banned from the industry and ordered to pay $860,000 in …

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday announced settlements in a pair of cases it brought under Operation Corrupt Collector, where each of the defendants have agreed to lifetime bans from working in the collection industry and will turn over all the money in their bank accounts to satisfy more than $27 …

The post-Kraninger Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced its first enforcement action yesterday, and while it might not directly relate to the accounts receivable management industry, there are a number of insights that the industry can and should glean from the news. In conjunction with the Attorneys General of Virginia, New …