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Spitzer, Faso address abusive collectors - 8/12/2006
Abusive debt collectors who shake people down for money need to be reined in, New York's major-party candidates for governor said, while they prescribed different remedies. |
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Rules urged for debt lawyers - 8/4/2006
The legal profession should draft ethics rules for debt collection lawyers in order to fight shakedown tactics, Erie County Bar Association President Stephen R. Lamantia said. |
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Wide-open market for debts feeds abusive tactics - 7/25/2006
Outsiders don't have to hack a bank's computer to get your account information. They can just buy it - cheap. In Buffalo and around the country, banks and other creditors are selling unpaid debts on a new and wide-open market. |
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Solutions: Give penalties teeth to halt collection abuses, consumer advocates say - 7/25/2006
One debt collector told a New York City woman to pay for her husband's funeral, or he would "dig up [his] body and repossess the casket." |
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Rogue debt collector operated under watchdogs' noses—with taxpayer money - 7/24/2006
Lenahan Law Office didn't look like an ordinary law firm. It had six offices around Buffalo, 100 to 200 debt-collection workers, and just three lawyers. |
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MERCHANTS OF DEBT - 7/23/2006
Buffalo debt collectors are spreading havoc. They coerced Sally Beckmann to pay $5,300 in credit card bills - and it wasn't her card. They rained calls on Nadine Frankenfield as she tried to recover from lung surgery, then denied it. |
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On the other end, high pressure to collect - 7/23/2006
Tall and lean with piercing gray eyes, Eric Boryszak has the charisma of a natural salesman. Not that it helps in his job. He never meets the people who ultimately provide his living - people with unpaid car loans or credit card bills. They only know him from his businesslike voice on the phone. |
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