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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

The OAG also found that the debt collection law firm illegally continued to pursue consumers for debts that were already paid or partially paid, and sometimes garnished wages for judgments that were completed. billion to Gemini Earn Program (Earn) customers through the Genesis Global Capital, LLC (GCG) bankruptcy proceeding.

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Why Buffalo is a hub for illegal debt collectors

Collection Industry News

Here are snapshots of some cases against debt collectors that the State Attorney General’s Office, Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcement agencies have pursued in the past decade. Two years later, the state and Federal Trade Commission fined him $112,000 after he was accused of using lies and threats to unlawfully collect $8.7