Blog Posts in 2014

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken action to shut down two student loan debt relief scammers by filing lawsuits against them. One is College Education Services, and the other is ...

This past week, the New York State's Department of Financial Services announced its formal adoption of new debt collection regulations that would place new disclosure and written communication ...

The owner of a New York debt settlement company, Mission Settlement, has received a 9 year prison sentence for running a fraudulent debt collection relief scheme that would target vulnerable ...

In a 5-2 vote, the New York Court of Appeals on a huge bankruptcy issue has ruled that rent-stabilized apartments are exempt from the bankruptcy estate, meaning that they will not be sold from under ...

Debt collector, John Anderson, has turned into a debtor himself after he was sued for engaging in harassing, aggressive, and illegal debt collection acts. Jessica Burke, the woman who filed suit, was ...

Our client, a dentist, being sued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of the Department of Education (DOE) in the Eastern District of New York in federal court in regards to federal student ...