Who Needs Proof When We Can Robo-Paste, Part II: Dirty Debt Buyer Angers Another State AG

Thieving Florida debt buyer United Credit Recovery, LLC is in hot water with yet another state Attorney General, Colorado's John Suthers, for pretty much the same complaints Minnesota's Lori Swanson raised in October this year.

Who Needs Proof When We Can Robo-Paste? Dirty Debt Buyer Sued By Minnesota AG
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-8c3f4737a389fba ... by-minnesota-ag

Late last month Colorado sued UCR, its boss Leonard Potillo, and local debt collectors which relied on UCR's homemade hack job documentation when collecting from and suing Colorado residents. A statement from Suthers' office lays down his cards: "UCR faked bank officer signatures on documents to orchestrate a debt-for-sale scheme from which they handsomely profited. The scheme involved thousands of individual accounts totaling tens of millions of dollars." The suit aims to spank the offenders and win back restitution for their victims.

Potillo hasn't much room to squirm, given his April 2012 testimony under oath regarding his paper perjury factory, as quoted in the AG complaint:

"Q: So the affidavits that you provided, the 24,000 affidavits that you provided to [particular debt buyer] relative to the portfolios it purchased from UCR for $1.1 million, none of them, not one, was authentic, was it?

A: No. They’re not real affidavits. They are a mail merge document."

He responded with "mail merge document" a lot, like it was, "Ho-hum, another day, another twenty grand swindled from frightened people."


-- sources --

Colorado AG complaint, 25 Nov 2013  (PDF)
http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/pdf/UCRComplaint.pdf

Colorado Attorney General sues debt collection companies -- Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_2469521 ... ction-companies

Debt Firms Used Forged Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank Docs: Colo. A.G. -- American Banker
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_236/ ... -1064177-1.html


Oh yeah, I found another UCR phone number thread along the way. Just over a year ago someone claiming to be a former employee made a nearly prescient remark: "Call Lori Swanson in Minnesota. She is badass at shutting down these scams. I worked there and people got in major trouble for leaving the company name if they called Minnesota or Colorado. Everybody there knew to not mess with those states."

Hmm, everybody knew but the boss? He must have figured that by assigning and selling debt accounts with fatally defective docs he could diffuse the fraud enough to make it disappear. This may tell us at least that raising disputes and defending our rights *does* create some deterrent against the worst collector behavior, exactly as the FDCPA authors desired.

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-493-2143/2

*shakes head*

I was posting some problems with these guys back in September.  Here is the link where I first started getting exhausted filing FTC complaints and seemingly nothing was happening.

Oops.  I Forgot the link....  http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2359551/pg1

Here's what I don't get,  why aren't they up on criminals charges out the A$$?!   Every single time they knowingly presented a forged, fraudulent, or modified document to the court,  they were committing perjury, presenting false evidence and perpetrating a fraud on the court--not to mention  a slew of  conspiracy counts since they were working in collusion.   In fact using the court as an instrumentality to further a criminal scheme (judgments enabling them to collect on false debts) would in and of itself be a crime.   So, about five years  each on 24,000 felony counts of filing false documents, perjury, etc, etc?   What does that come to?