Florida attorney Randall L. Leshin, his debt management services company, Express Consolidation Inc. and telemarketer Consumer Credit Consolidation Inc. have agreed to collectively pay $2 million to settle charges they used abusive telemarketing and deception to sell consumer debt management services, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has ordered that the defendants refrain from making false representations to sell debt management services and violating the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry, according to the Commission.
A separate order governing Express Consolidation also requires that some current customers be transferred to another debt management services provider and that all current customers be given the opportunity to shift their debt management payments to another provider, according tor the FTC.
Specifically, the first order settles the Commission