The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is claiming a debt collection law firm violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by falsely representing that attorneys were meaningfully involved in filing and preparing consumer lawsuits.
The bureau seeks an injunction, damages, redress to consumers, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains and a civil money penalty against the New York company for alleged high-volume litigation tactics.
Read on for details from the suit.
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