Tag Archives: americorp

RIMS – Radiology Images Made Simple. New Home for Tim McCallan and Tom Roland

A tipster sent me a message that troubled AmeriCorp company owner Tim McCallan and Tom Roland have embarked on a new endeavor outside of debt relief. This time it’s medical imaging. The new company, Radiology Images Made Simple, Inc is registered at 135 Crossways Park Drive, #203, Woodbury, NY 11797. Coincidently that happens to be [...]

Scathing Report From Allegro Law Debt Settlement Bankruptcy Drags In Others

Allegro Law was an attorney model debt settlement company that charged advanced fees for services to consumers. The group previously fell and Keith Nelms, Esq. was subsequently disbarred and filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, taking client deposits with it. The Allegro Law debacle follows in line with the mess created previously by Hess Kennedy, another [...]

Elimidebt Management Systems Wants to be Eliminated? Not Playing Nicely With WV AG.

New news out about Florida based Elimidebt Management Systems seems to indicate the West Virginia Attorney General is none too happy with them or Thomas Roland, the guy behind DebtWave Credit Counseling and Coastal Credit Solutions. After looking at the Elimidebt website it appears they are trying to steer people away from bankruptcy and into [...]

Tim McCallan and His Intermark Communications Sued by Bank of America

Not a great month for Tim McCallan of AmeriCorp fame. It looks like his case the bankruptcy trustee filed back in February 2011, trying to claw back money from McCallan’s involvement with AmeriCorp and Allegro Law is still ongoing. The latest event, a notice of appeal by McCallan and AmeriCorp. That suit is about allegations [...]

What Government Grants or Student Loan Forgiveness is Available for My Sallie Mae Student Loans? – Trina

“Dear Steve, I am 41 years old. I started repayment on consolidated student loans through Sallie Mae 15 years ago. They have been sold to a different company at least once, I have deferred them several times but have never paid more than minimum amounts. I have mostly worked part time over the last 13 [...]

Allegro Law Still Suing AmeriCorp, Seton and Tim McCallan

A tipster sent in information with an update to the lawsuit resulting from the Allegro Law bankruptcy filing. For those who might not know, Allegro Law was an attorney model debt settlement company where the lawyers was disbarred and the firm filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. This suit was filed by the Chapter 7 [...]

Allegro Law Update: Flashback Into the Bad Times of Lawyer Debt Settlement

A follower over on my Facebook page asked me a question about the current status of Allegro Law. In my search to see what was going on with the bankruptcy of the now disbarred attorney, Keith Andy Nelms that was running the show I came across the judge’s statement in an opinion issued under the [...]

DMP Payments Late Through Americorp from First Consumer Debt Consolidation/Hess Kennedy. Who’s Responsible?

A tipster sent me the following statement and I’m posting it in hopes of hearing from others with information about the situation to see if anyone has any additional scoop on the situation. @GetOutOfDebtGuy Tipster says: “Thank you for your site. I am a current debt management program of client of First Consumer Debt Consolidation/Hess [...]

First Consumer Debt Consolidation is Missing in Action With Americorp

“Dear Steve, I would really appreciate your help with my situation. In October 2007, I entered into a Debt Consolidation Agreement with First Consumer Debt Consolidation with a “Debt Consolidation Counselor” who gave me the monthly fee ($59), the amounts to be paid to each of my creditors each month (totaling $1686-fee and payment are [...]

Listen to the Lies This Marketing Company Tells Consumers to Sell Attorney Based Debt Settlement Services

I’ve previously written about the attorney model debt settlement firm approach that some debt settlement companies are rushing towards in an effort to circumvent any fee ban that may be put in place. The logic is that attorneys are exempt from most laws so if an attorney is doing debt settlement then it must be [...]

Chase Bank Kicking the Shit Out of Attorney Run Debt Settlement. Not the Safe Harbor Some Think.

In June, 2010 Chase bank filed an adversarial proceeding against now disbarred attorney Keith “Andy” Nelms in his bankruptcy filing that he filed when his debt settlement law firm, Allegro Law, went bust. The complaint filed by Chase seems to make it pretty clear they are not fans of debt settlement. Chase makes an interesting [...]

Court Finds Four Problems With Attorney Model Debt Settlement Firm Allegro Law

Keith “Andy” Nelms was a lawyer, before he was disbarred, that ran a debt settlement company that outsourced much of it’s debt settlement back office work to a non-attorney company, Americorp, which I’ve written about before. I’ll paste the entire court memorandum here and put my comments in [ ]. MEMORANDUM DECISION WILLIAM R. SAWYER, [...]

Americorp Employee Blows the Whistle on Capital Debt Relief, Vortex Debt Relief, Elimidebt, The Achievable, Hess-Kennedy, Allegro Law, and IntelliDebt

I just received the following scripts and information that an Americorp employee sent to me to expose the operation of a number of Americorp related or serviced debt settlement or debt relief companies. If you have inside information you want to share send it to [email protected] The scripts and statements below are those of the [...]

Ripoff Report: Vortex Debt Group, The Achievable, Allegro Law, Americorp

I first went to this company, The Achievable, for help with credit card debt. I had, emphasis on the HAD, great credit but I had racked up some debt and wanted to get out of it with lower interest rates. I called an ad that I had heard on the radio and got a really [...]

Debt Settlement Programs Fail to Reduce Debt in Most Cases, Negatively Affects Credit Ratings, and Leads to Increased Lawsuits and Collection Activities by Creditors

In an announcement by the Attorney General of Alabama, Troy King, he disclosed the results of his investigation into debt settlement practices that resulted in the permanent shutdown of a large attorney run debt settlement company in Alabama but serviced by Tim McCallan’s company, Americorp in New York.. Some of the discoveries as part of [...]