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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 07:02 AM Mar 2016

Car title loaner barred from doing business in Massachusetts

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/03/car_title_loaner_barred_from_doing_business_in_massachusetts

Car title loaner barred from doing business in Massachusetts
Associated Press Friday, March 18, 2016

BOSTON — An online auto title lender based on a remote South Pacific island that charges triple-digit interest rates has been ordered to stop doing business in Massachusetts.

Attorney General Maura Healey announced Friday that a judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring Liquidation LLC from making and collecting on loans.

Healey says the company, which uses several names, preys on financially-desperate consumers by providing vehicle title loans, often seizing and selling vehicles when owners default.

She says the company is not licensed to do business in the state and has victimized more than 200 Massachusetts consumers with interest rates as high as 619 percent.
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Car title loaner barred from doing business in Massachusetts (Original Post) unhappycamper Mar 2016 OP
Outrageous! Turbineguy Mar 2016 #1
"Honest Republican?!!?" gregcrawford Mar 2016 #2
Way to go Mass! paleotn Mar 2016 #3

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
2. "Honest Republican?!!?"
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 08:16 AM
Mar 2016

That's a contradiction in terms. If it was honest, it wouldn't be a Republican!

paleotn

(17,884 posts)
3. Way to go Mass!
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 08:28 AM
Mar 2016

AG Roy Cooper ( and with some luck our next governor) was instrumental in making legal loan sharking illegal in North Carolina. But just across the border in TN, it's a whole different story. There's a financial parasite on every corner.

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