Posts Tagged ‘collections’

State of Illinois Sues Debt Collector for $23.7 Million

By K&S on October 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Posted in: Debt Collectors
Tags: Chicago, collections, Freidman & Wexler, Illinois, student loan

A Cook County judge ordered the law firm of Friedman & Wexler and its lawyers Mitchell Wexler and Norman Wexler to pay the damages as a result of a lawsuit the Illinois Student Assistance Commission filed in 2006.

Three Types Of Illegal Voicemails From Collectors And How To Make Them Stop

By K&S on December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Posted in: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, FDCPA, Stop Debt Collectors
Tags: collections, debt, debt collector, FDCPA, illegal, lie, message, threat, voice mail

Voicemails from bill collectors are a reality when you have been turned over to collections. The dirty secret debt collectors don’t want you to know about is that they very often violate the law.