On June 28, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed its first federal case under the newly implemented Impersonation Rule, effective as of April 1, 2024. The case alleged that various student loan debt relief companies and their owners operated as a common enterprise and, after falsely claiming affiliation with…
On January 17, 2024, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee (“USAO”) announced that it entered into a consent agreement with a full-service bank, resolving allegations of lending discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601–3619 and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”),…