Consumer Financial Protection Bureau et al v. MacKinnon et al

  1. September 25, 2024

    CFPB Gets Partial Win Over Debt Collector's Property Transfer

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and New York's attorney general secured a partial win in its suit over the head of a debt collection company's allegedly fraudulent transfer of a million-dollar property to his family members, with a New York federal judge ruling that they are only entitled to the daughter's share of the property's escrow proceeds.

  2. October 17, 2023

    CFPB Says Debt Collector's Phone Swap Destroyed Texts

    The head of a debt collection company should face sanctions for effectively destroying evidence by trading in his cellphone, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged as it seeks to collect a $60 million judgment it and New York's attorney general had gotten against him.