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Should I Even Bother to Settle My Sallie Mae or Navient Private...
Question: Dear Steve, When I first started college, 18 years ago, I borrowed money from Sallie...
Economy Running on Borrowed Time and Money Says Report
Accenture just put out a rather scary look at the pandemic financial challenges that have been put...
How Can I Deal With My Back Taxes After Getting Out of Prison?
Question: Dear Steve, I owe over 10,000. in taxes. I have been in prison 3 times in 10 years. Can I...
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Should I Even Bother to Settle My Sallie Mae or Navient Private...
Question: Dear Steve, When I first started college, 18 years ago, I borrowed money from Sallie...
How Can I Deal With My Back Taxes After Getting Out of Prison?
Question: Dear Steve, I owe over 10,000. in taxes. I have been in prison 3 times in 10 years. Can I...
I Have an Idea to Waste the Time of Telemarketers
Question: Dear Steve, I have a question about debt-reduction telemarketing scammers. None of the...
A Bunch of Attorneys Couldn’t Stop Ocwen From Foreclosing...
Question: Dear Steve, Part 1: Reaching out for help July of 2007, I made a loan of seven hundred...
How to Grill the Perfect Steak
Because of the lockdown, we’re cooking at home far more often, and for many of us that means...
Economy Running on Borrowed Time and Money Says Report
Accenture just put out a rather scary look at the pandemic financial challenges that have been put...
How to Negotiate Rent for Your Small Business During COVID-19
COVID-19 is making rent a nightmare for local businesses. In Alignable’s latest Pulse Poll of...
Answering Reader Questions – 1099C and Credit Report...
Today I’m answering the following two reader questions. Amie I need advice please about...
Debt Relief Industry
Debt Settlement Kind of Wins Over Credit Counseling in CFPB...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) just released a CFPB Report on Debt Settlement and...
CFPB Sues and Settles With Student Loan Assistance Company
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) settled with Timemark, Inc., a company based in...
Criminal Sentencing Scheduled for Brandon Frere From American...
Brandon Frere seems to be nearing the end of his legal issues with both the FTC and U.S. Attorney...
Lawsuit Goes After a Gaggle of Entities in the Settlement...
Ice Legal out of Lake Worth Florida has found a target in firms that were engaged in debt...
Student Loan Bankruptcy Discharge
Lawyer Sentenced to 63 Years of Student Loan Hell
Peter Rubash is a sixty-year-old graduate of Duquesne University School of Law. He practiced law...
Single Mother Has Student Loans Logically Discharged in...
The Sad Case of Jessica Trejo In 2017, Jessica Trejo filed an adversary action in a Texas...
Rodger Love v. U.S. Department of Education: Betsy DeVos wears...
According to Urban Dictionary, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes,” is a phrase “often...
Clavell v. U.S. Department of Education: A New York bankruptcy...
Clavell v. U.S. Department of Education: An Introduction Christian Clavell, a 35-year-old sales...
Student Loan Rescue or Assistance
Irvine California Employee Spills the Beans on Student Loan...
I received the following tip from an alleged employee of an Irvine based student loan assistance...
Student Debt Doctor and American Student Loan Consolidators...
The operators of two Florida-based student loan debt relief schemes are banned from the debt relief...
Brandon Frere of American Financial Benefits Center –...
Student loan assistance company executive Brandon Frere, 41, was arrested and faces a maximum...
Deep Dive Into NY Suit Against Student Loan Assistance Companies
Earlier today I wrote NY Sues a Bunch of Student Loan Debt Relief Companies and Equitable...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Files Suit Against...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today filed a complaint...
FTC Disconnects Pointbreak Media Robocall Scheme Defendants
Callers falsely claimed company represented Google, sought fees between $300 and $700 for first...
Scam Alert
Check Your PayPal Account if You Were an Amazing Wealth System...
The Federal Trade Commission is sending out refunds to consumers snagged in the Amazing Wealth...
Scammers Who Used Robocalls to Target Cash-Strapped Consumers...
The operators of a Florida-based company that allegedly defrauded financially-distressed and often...
Why Has Mitchell J Stein Not Been Disbarred Yet?
Question: Dear Steve, I am a plaintiff for the State of California against Mitchell J Stein Why has...
Another Debt Relief Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Sham...
Here we go again. Another group of brainiacs takes a turn at the age-old credit card sham effort to...