Question: Dear Steve, I paid World Law around $15,000.00 and didn’t get any of my debt settled don’t know where my money is. I want to know how I can get my money back. Judy Answer: Dear Judy, Wow, World Law, there is a company I have not heard about in a few years. Honestly, … Read more
The World Law Group all the other World Law players were sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The Court appointed receiver has recently sent a notice to consumers about potential refunds coming. The notice makes reference to this link on the CFPB website for refund distribution information. There is no information listed there … Read more
The attorney who drifted in and out behind the debt settlement efforts of the company World Law, appears to have not turned up to defend himself in an action filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It has always been nebulus where Haskins is actually located. In this article from 2012 I had tracked … Read more
Question: Dear Steve, I engaged ‘World Law Debt’ to handle my debts around 2012. They seemed honest at first, but I now understand that it was an elaborate scam operation from the get-go. They swindled me out of a little over 7,000 dollars, settled none of my debts, and made me look like a fool … Read more
Derin Scott, David Klein and Shannon Scott have asked the court to approve a settlement in the case against World Law, Orion Processing, and others. – Source The World law operation was one of the national attorney model advance fee operations that eventually collapsed under the weight of it’s violations. The proposed World Law Settlement … Read more
Well I would be surpprised if this latest court filing by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) didn’t put the final nail in the World Law advance fee attorney model debt settlement mess. The CFPB asked the court for a judgment of nearly $150 million. Out of that $106,813,049 is for the purpose of refunding … Read more
In doing some work on case updates I noticed this lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a couple of recent updates. First off it looks like Family Capital Investment & Management, World Law Debt Services, and World Law Processing never responded to suit and a default judgment was entered against them on … Read more
Debt relief company Orion Processing has filed court documents alleging the Consumer Financial Protection bureau had no authority to seize their business and shutdown Orion and effectively, World Law. For the background on this story, click here. Orion Processing, Derin Scott, and David Klein say, “Sometime before August 20, 2015, Counter-Defendant decided to bring this … Read more
Last week the CFPB raided Orion Processing’s headquarters after obtaining a search warrant. The CFPB filed a complaint last Monday, and obtained a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) last Tuesday, which was under seal until late yesterday. With the TRO, the CFPB also obtained an asset freeze on all of the defendants’ assets. The defendants include … Read more
A tipster (send in your tips here) told me that things turned dire at World Law Debt last week. Apparently their Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization was forced into a Chapter 7 liquidation after an application to the court by the Oregon Department of Justice because a number of problems the debt settlement company faced. For … Read more
Under the heading of ironic debt relief outcomes, one of the major debt settlement players, World Law Debt and Orion Processing, recently filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. I guess their debt issues were beyond settling. This matter came to light when a reader asked me to look at a notice they received in the … Read more
It was just brought to my attention that the issue between the debt settlement group World Law and The State of North Carolina is still going on. There was even a recent amended complaint filed by the State. In the latest round of public documents the State makes the following claims in its June 25, … Read more
Yesterday the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Bar filed suit against Swift Rock Financial, World Law Debt, World Law Group, Orion Processing, World Law Processing, Derin Scott, and Global Client Solutions. This suit is different than many others I’ve seen in that it is a joint effort by both the State … Read more
The following review was generated as the result of a request made by a tipster (send in your tips here) who wanted me to look at this allegedly new debt relief company. While the company says their corporate office is in Texas, a search of the Texas Secretary of State records could locate no company … Read more
A reader received the following mailer and was concerned about the promises made. You know, at some point, after years of covering these things it feels like it will never end. It’s just one deceptive and misleading mailer sent after another. I begrudgingly picked up the phone and called the number on the “Resolution Pending” … Read more