On May 11, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had resolved an enforcement action against two debt-relief payment processors and one of their co-founders. The CFPB alleged the processors improperly collected debt relief fees from consumers, misled consumers about timing of fee payments, and sent illegal fee advancements to debt-relief companies….
On February 8, 2022, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (DC AG) announced that a Delaware-based online lender has agreed to pay $3.3 million to refund over 2,500 consumers who allegedly received misleadingly high-cost loans and lines of credit. This agreement resolves a lawsuit filed by the DC AG in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia,…
On January 14, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it reached an agreement with a student loan servicer that had serviced loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program. The agreement resolves allegations that the loan servicer submitted false claims to the Department of Education (DOE) in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA)….