First Class Action Filed Against Georgia’s Mann Bracken and FIA Card Services (aka MBNA America Bank).
July 24th, 2009. Published under Business Scams, Fraud. No Comments.
I personally hope that this is the first of many class-action lawsuits against Mann Bracken (aka Axiant, Aka Accretive Technologies), Wolpoff and Abramson, Eskanos and Adler and the rest that are involved. Of course at this point the class-action is filed, a judge still has to certify it as a class-action. However with all that has been going on I think it will gain class action status and I hope that a nationwide class action shows up soon. from wislawjournal.com The complaint (PDF) mapped out a “complex web” which boiled down to a cozy financial relationship: the arbitration services of NAF and sister organizations as well as the debt collection services of the law firm Mann Bracken and other companies have all been owned by the same New York hedge fund since 2007. The complaint alleged that the NAF violated state consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices and false advertising statutes through “complex and opaque corporate structuring” that concealed its financial ties and represented itself as a neutral party. “The ability of a class action litigant to get all of these other court cases undone is limited because of comity. Definitely a federal court will not be able to tell state courts to set aside judgments,” said Rubin, who hopes that other state attorneys general or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will step in and order that profits be disgorged. I just hope that there is some money left when my civil lawsuit filed in Georgia gets in front of a judge, I want a piece of Mann Bracken myself for the harassment I have endured…. If you have been harassed or had an illegal judgment against you then I suggest that you: File a complaint with the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs against Mann Bracken. The state of Georgia is suing Mann Bracken for FDCPA and for violations of the Georgia Business Practices Act. Contact the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs PDF complaint form http://consumer.georgia.gov/vgn/images/portal/cit_1210/35/26/117138786Complaintform.pdf If you are harassed by debt collectors or debt collector law firms, go to www.naca.net or www.martindale.com and get a consumer protection attorney and SUE the pants off of them. Consumer protection attorney’s work on a contingency basis (no upfront costs – i.e. $0.00). BE SURE to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) as well. It is imperative that they get your complaint. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
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First Class Action Filed Against Georgia’s Mann Bracken and FIA Card Services (aka MBNA America Bank).