JUDGE GRANTS MTD ON ALL COUNTS BUT ONE IN FDCPA CLASS ACTION
- A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss on all counts but one in a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the allegations that the amount of a debt was mis-stated in a letter can not be ruled on at this stage in the process.
JUDGE RULES FOR DEFENDANT IN FDCPA THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE SUIT
- It might not be a Hunstein case, but a District Court judge in Missouri has granted a defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by disclosing the existence of a debt to a third party — in this case a bankruptcy attorney who received a letter from the defendant in regards to a debt for a consumer he was not representing.
ED. DEPT. CANCELS ANOTHER $1.1B IN UNPAID LOANS FOR ITT TECH STUDENTS
- The Department of Education yesterday exercised its authority to extend the window to discharge student loans for individuals who attended schools that closed to cancel $1.1 billion in unpaid student loans — 43% of which are in default — for former students of ITT Technical Institute.
ALLEGED $150M PAYMENT PROCESSING SCAM INCLUDED DEBT COLLECTION TRANSACTIONS: PROSECUTORS
- A quartet of individuals have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a $150 million payment processing scheme that included facilitating transactions for debt collectors, and one of the individuals remains at large, according to an indictment that was unsealed yesterday in Massachusetts federal court.
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