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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Prepared Remarks of Richard CordrayDirector of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
RD Legal Funding Enforcement Action Press CallWashington, D.C.February 7, 2017 Thank you for joining today’s call. It is my honor to be working alongside Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on this matter. He is one of the toughest and most effective advocates for consumers in the country and we thank him for that. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is joining forces with New York to sue RD Legal Funding, two related entities, and their owner. We allege that they scammed 9/11 heroes with cancer and other illnesses out of millions of dollars intended to cover their medical costs, lost income, and other critical needs. We also allege that RD Legal targeted National Football League concussion victims with brain injuries in the same manner. In both instances, the company lured vulnerable consumers into surrendering money due to them with lies about the terms of costly financial advances on settlement fund payouts. Many of the police, firefighters, paramedics, and others who were first responders to the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001 suffer from cancers and other respiratory illnesses related to their exposure to dust and debris at the attack site. Many others suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and memory loss. Through the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, Congress allocated billions of dollars to help these heroes with their needs, including mounting medical costs and lost income because of their inability to work. The other victims named in our lawsuit are former NFL players who have been diagnosed with brain injuries and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, who were entitled to payments from a settlement in a class action lawsuit. In today’s lawsuit, we allege that RD Legal, based in New Jersey, contacted these consumers after they were awarded their money but before they received it. It swooped in during that gap to offer a purported “deal” – an upfront payment of some of the money, to be paid back later when the consumer received the actual settlement. We believe that through convoluted contracts, RD Legal misrepresented to consumers what they were being offered. It deceived consumers; interfered with their understanding of the terms, costs, and conditions of the transactions; and prevented them from meaningfully evaluating the offering. And what was offered was expensive. For example, one 9/11 first responder was awarded $65,000 from the Zadroga Fund. While she waited for her full payment, RD Legal advanced her $18,000. When her payment from the fund arrived six months later, she had to repay $33,000 to RD Legal, $15,000 more than she was advanced. Another victim was duped out of even more money. He was a severely disabled 9/11 first responder who received $35,000 from RD Legal. When he received his check from the Zadroga Fund three months later, he owed RD Legal $63,633 – almost $30,000 more than the company had advanced to him. We allege that one way RD Legal was able to trick consumers into its scam was by lying about the timelines involving the money. It claimed to consumers that it could “cut through red tape” to obtain their anticipated payments from claims administrators faster than would otherwise be possible. In fact, RD Legal had no authority or ability to change the timing of when any victim compensation or settlement payouts occurred. The company also misrepresented to consumers when they would receive money from RD Legal. On its website, the company promised that consumers would receive the money within several days of entering into the contract, but some consumers did not receive money until several months after it was promised. Finally, because we believe that RD Legal’s costly transactions were based on void contracts or that they violated interest rate caps in at least one key state – the State of New York – we allege that it was illegal for RD Legal to attempt to recover its money from the victims. We look forward to proving all of this in court. Along with RD Legal Funding, in our lawsuit we named two related entities – RD Legal Finance and RD Legal Funding Partners. We also named Roni Dersovitz, who is the founder and owner of all the entities; we allege that he substantially assisted RD Legal’s violations. Through this lawsuit, the CFPB and the New York Attorney General are seeking to end the defendants’ illegal practices, obtain relief for the victims, and impose penalties. As we regularly emphasize, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the nation’s first federal agency whose sole focus is to protect consumers in the financial marketplace nationwide. The premise at the heart of our mission is that consumers deserve to be treated fairly and they should have someone who will stand on their side when that does not happen. Through fair rules, consistent oversight, appropriate law enforcement, and broad-based consumer engagement, we are working to restore people’s trust in consumer financial markets and protect them against the kind of illegal conduct described in today’s suit. We are always pleased to partner in our efforts with law enforcement officials from around the country, and are glad to do so again here today. Thank you. ### The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a 21st century agency that helps consumer finance markets work by making rules more effective, by consistently and fairly enforcing those rules, and by empowering consumers to take more control over their economic lives. For more information, visit consumerfinance.gov. |
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Press Release: New Lawsuit Regarding 9/11 Heroes and NFL Players
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU AND NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL SUE RD LEGAL FOR SCAMMING 9/11 HEROES OUT OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN COMPENSATION FUNDS
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CFPB Sues Woodridge Gold & Pawn
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU AND VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL TAKE ACTION AGAINST WOODBRIDGE GOLD & PAWN FOR DECEIVING CONSUMERS ABOUT LOAN COSTS
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The Norte Vista (“Novi”) Girls Golf Team is in their 2nd year of existence as a competitive league golf team and self-supportive. They must pay for their gear, practices, league matches and all that is necessary to compete!
Help take the burden off of these outstanding female student-athletes who dedicate hours and hours of practice and competition time weekly – in addition to their studies – to make their community proud and learn valuable life lessons through the cerebral and fruitful game of golf.
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Independent Recording Artist: Marisa Ronstadt
Marisa Ronstadt hails from a talented family based in Arizona whose name was made famous by her cousin, the multi-platinum recording artist, Linda Ronstadt. A performer at the age of seven, Marisa’s musical tastes are rooted in mariachi, R&B/soul, and rock, but like many Mexican-American’s raised in the U.S., her influences range from Lola Beltran and Pedro Infante, to The Beatles and Marvin Gaye. As early as the age of eight, Marisa was already performing big band, rock & roll, country, and top 40 music with a musical revue in Phoenix called the Amigos. She was a member of Amigos for ten years.
Marisa Ronstadt & The Know-it-Alls
Now Marisa calls Los Angeles her home, where she has developed ties with major local talent such as GRAMMY® award winners Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez of the band Quetzal, Los Lobos, David Gomez and Jeremy Keller of the band Monte Carlo 76, R&B/Soul sensation Aloe Blacc (“Wake Me Up” and “I Need a Dollar”), and the singer-songwriter/rapper Maya Jupiter. In 2009, Marisa recorded and released an album as the lead vocalist for the band Monte Carlo 76 titled Marisela, produced by Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez. After touring with Monte Carlo 76, she began songwriting with band member Jeremy Keller, and before she knew it, they had given birth to a new band, MARISA RONSTADT AND THE KNOW-IT-ALLS.

New Album by Marisa Ronstadt & The Know-it-Alls
Blueberry Moon is the first recording by “The Know-It-Alls”, was released on June 3, 2014, it marked Marisa’s first solo project recorded independently via crowd-sourced funding through Kickstarter.
The album was produced by the dynamic East L.A. duo Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez, and is Marisa’s most personal and heartfelt work to date. Blueberry Moon reflects her love of classic R&B/soul, with an indie-pop flair that keeps the album fresh and the sound new. “These songs are very personal, written and recorded at a time when I was awaiting the birth of my first baby. The title track ‘Blueberry Moon’ was written for my daughter. I was so inspired by the growing life within me” said Marisa. From the smooth, sweet vocals on the title track, to the Motown inspired feel-good song “Save Me,” Blueberry Moon will be the album that begs listeners to take notice of the next Ronstadt generation!
The album also includes a nod to East L.A. legendary Chicano rock band Los Lobos with a cover of “Will The Wolf Survive” that takes the song from its original blues/rock sound, to an upbeat R&B track, with trumpet and beautiful female vocal harmonies. Marisa’s songwriting skills don’t only come in one language, as evidenced by her song “Cansada”, written in Spanish, about heartbreak and letting go. Blueberry Moon is sprinkled with little treats—interludes that feel like those tiny bite size chocolates that satisfy your craving, but make you wish you had full bar! Well the good news is, one of the three interludes is the full bar! It’s a unique five-minute piece of heaven.

The album ends with a powerful and inspirational song “Freedom”, featuring the talented Maya Jupiter in a poignant rap. Marisa wrote “Freedom” in 2010 after the anti-immigrant Arizona Senate Bill 1070 created such controversy and negativity for people in her home state. It was the strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history, and Marisa felt it necessary to immediately release a song via YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIwsDo1uTLY), hoping it would help shed light on the negative impact the bill was having on innocent people. Marisa’s Father, Jose Armando Ronstadt, a respected news reporter/host for Noticias Mundo Fox collaborated on the Spanish lyrics on the song. The “Freedom” video, with images of the protests against SB 1070, was featured in a news piece on NPR Latino
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/altlatino/2010/08/17/129254506/arizona-law-inspires-latin-protest-music).
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