Consumer Law

Minnesota Attorney General Sues Midland Funding for Robo-Signing

By Sam Glover

Today the Minnesota Attorney General sued Midland Funding, one of the country’s largest debt buyers, for robo-signing thousands of affidavits in Minnesota. I think AG Lori Swanson best sums up what Midland Funding was doing:

The company put its thumb on the scale of justice to unfairly tilt the collection process in its favor.

Also revealing is this data on what Midland and its parent company, Encore Capital Group, pay for the debts they collect:

Midland and Encore have paid more than $1.8 billion to obtain 33 million customer accounts with a face value of about $54.7 billion, or an average cost of about three cents on the dollar, Swanson said.

It’s about time someone cracked down on the debt buyer robo-signers. Until now, only the foreclosure industry has come under real scrutiny, but it is the debt buying industry that invented the practice, as far as I can tell.

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Full post as published by Caveat Emptor on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).