Consumers who sign up for debt settlement help through an attorney, they say, are sometimes led to believe they are getting legal representation if they are sued by creditors. … “As soon as, on a case-by-case basis, a state attorney general or the FTC has taken some action in closing down individual companies, they reemerge as another entity under another guise,” notes William Binzel, counsel for the National …. Facebook Twitter RSS news feeds Youtube Google+ …

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States, feds target debt settlement legal firms over upfront fees