A Grand Jury in Suffolk County, Mass. yesterday returned indictments against the president of a collection agency for allegedly stealing millions of dollars worth of excise taxes from the City of Boston.
Last month, Manuel and Luz Fausto won one of the biggest collection awards documented in the last couple of years under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) against Credigy Services Corporation. A California jury awarded the Faustos $500,000 in damages derived from harassment by Credigy collectors. Of the sum, granted $100,000 was for actual damages the Faustos experienced, while $400,000 was in punitive damages, granted for malicious and reckless disregard of the couples rights. According to one of the Faustos lawyers, David Humphreys of Humphreys Wallace Humphreys, P.C., and the case derived from a debt on a Wells Fargo charge card opened in 1992.
Credit card debt elimination by non-payment sounds too good to be true, but it is true. Mel Thompson, the author of the Credit Card Debt Survival Guide, who put his credit card debt behind when he could not pay it, shares the techniques he learned from lengthy research into consumer protection laws and other people’s first hand experiences.
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