TAMPA, Fla. — A widow claims that debt collectors hounded her husband to death with as many as nine caustic calls per day, causing stress that c...
AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Annie Leibovitz's artsy, provocative portraits of celebrities regularly grace the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue, images that have m...
Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
More complaints were filed last year against debt collectors than any other industry, the National Association of Attorneys General announced Monday. ...
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 08.08.2009 | Chicago
The same bill collectors who pester debtors on behalf of credit-card companies are being recruited by Chicago City Hall to go after anybody who owes m...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
What would you do if -- as a college-educated young mother -- you lost your job, had debt collectors calling you incessantly, and were just evicted from your home?
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business
Debt collectors perform a useful function. They recover scads of bad debt for creditors -- an estimated $40 billion worth in 2007 -- that helps keep l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
The Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, N.Y. just can't get a break. Last week the Huffington Post reported that since November, the library has...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
Since last November, the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, N.Y. has received a "cease and desist" order from an attorney general or a lawyer i...
Dean Obeidallah | Posted 04.15.2009 | Comedy
As a comedian, I have had to deal with my share of debt collectors in the past so I wanted to offer some advice to President Obama on how to best avoid China if they start trying to collect their trillion dollars...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Senator Grassley would obviously prefer to have 60 people in the private sector doing an inefficient job of collecting taxes than to turn the job over to the more efficient public sector.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business
John Nemo says the notion that debt collectors are capitalist vultures who profit off other folks' struggles is a "stereotype." Nemo is a spokesman ...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 04.07.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — So much for privatizing the federal government. The Internal Revenue Service's decision this week to quit using debt collectors to...
Don McNay | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business
My mother allegedly died in 2006. I say allegedly because a collector representing MBNA said he talked to her on June 21st.
Don McNay | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business
Citigroup and AIG employ thousands of good people. But they have had rotten apples in leadership. They created a culture that is probably impossible to change or fix.
Chris Rodda | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
I wonder how much thought these people were giving to the people they make their money off of. People like the 90-year-old woman who was threatened with jail for failing to return an Information Subpoena,
Washington Post | Mark Henricks | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business
If the phone rings at dinnertime, the odds are greater now that a credit card debt collector will be on the other end. With card delinquencies risin...
Washington Post | Lyndsey Layton, Christopher Lee | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
The Internal Revenue Service expects to lose more than $37 million by using private debt collectors to pursue tax scofflaws through a program that has...
New York Times | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Just in time for a recession, the debt collection industry is working to shed its reputation for remorselessly hounding people. Oh, the collectors st...
AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business