The case against Florida Attorney Randall L. Leshin and his
debt consolidation services company – Express
Consolidations, Inc., as well as telemarketer Consumer
Credit Consolidation, Inc. have settled their case.
The Florida Trade Commission has said that the charges were
settled and they agreed to the charge that they had used
abusive telemarketing and deception to sell “debt
management” services to consumers.
The court orders that stood against the debt consolidation
company were settled and the defendants must pay more than
$2 million between them. Allegedly they made false
representations to those they spoke with over the phone that
were on the National Do Not Call Registry.
They must transfer any and all current customers that so
desire it to another debt consolidation company. For some it
is an automatic transfer, for others they have the option.
According to the complaint, they violated Section 5 of the
FTC Act while using the name Express Consolidation.
They also found that the non profit status was a “sham” and
that the monies that they took in were going to Leshin
instead. Some of the claims that they made included the fact
that participants’ credit reports would be cleaned up, fees
were adjusted depending on state law, and that they did not
disclose the total cost of the program. They also promised
to refund fees that they didn’t.
To top it all off, they called members of the DNC registry,
did not pay for access to the registry, and abandoned calls
made to consumers through voice broadcasting services. Not
only that, but they also abandoned calls made to consumers
using those broadcasting services.
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