NY AG to prosecute individual collectors

[keepmine]

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/811556.html?imw=Y

[BigJohn]

It is about time New York State Attorney General Cuomo did something.

Things had to get really, really bad before the State would step in.

[Snickers]

Hopefully AGs in other states will follow his actions.

Does anybody know which company this was?

Never mind, found it in another article. Excerpt here from States News Service:

According to the lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals Office, Omar Smith, Narvell Benning and Keith Marshall ran at least 13 debt collection companies that operated out of multiple locations and under various assumed names in Western New York. The Benning-Smith Group operated under several names, including: Abrams, Burke and Associates; Benning and Smith Acquisitions, Inc.; Brady and Caruso, LLC; DebtPayments.com; DebtPayments.com, LLC; Fredericks, Goldstein and Zoe; Graham, Noble and Associates Bookkeeping; Graham, Noble and Associates LLC; Graham, Beagle and Associates LLC; Kingman, Cole and Associates, LCC; Marshall and Ziolkowski Enterprise, LLC; Marshall Ziolkowski Acquisitions, LLC; Lansky, Goldstein, Zoe; OLS Payment Services;
and University Debt Collection.

[frogger]

It has to get really bad before anyone will do anything about bad debt collectors. Unless there is a repeated pattern of abuse and complaints, nothing gets done.

Not all collectors are bad.

It's good to see them going after the bad ones.