For five years, employees at Cash America, one of the country’s largest payday lenders, were told to stamp a lawyer’s signature on court documents used to sue customers for past-due debts.
This “robo-signing” helped the company improperly squeeze money out of at least 14,397 Americans, who are entitled to millions of dollars in restitution, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday.
The government watchdog said it had reached a $19 million settlement with Cash America for those and other abusive practices — its first with a short-term, small-dollar lender.
By Fiona MacdonaldFeatures correspondent
(Ben A Pruchnie/Getty Images for Bolton & Quinn)During WWI, artists created optical illusions on water with camouflage ‘dazzle paintings’. Now a sculptor and a painter have revived the technique.
The periscope broke through the water. The U-boat captain had to be quick: he had just a few seconds to find his target and fire. And then the ship he was tracking appeared to break up, jolt, change direction.
As summer-getaway season draws to a close, it’s time to face a tough reality: America is not a great vacation nation.
In fact,one report goes so far as to call the United States a “no-vacation nation,” thanks to the paltry (well, nonexistent) amount of paid vacation time mandated by federal law compared with that of other well-off countries.
According to the study from Center for Economic and Policy Research, the European Union requires member countries to grant workers at least 20 working days of paid vacation.
Read more: It’s the nagging fear that rests in the minds of all who plan a family summer getaway: What if it’s a total disaster? For many former children of the 1980s, that fear stems from memories of “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”
The 1983 comedy stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as Clark and Ellen Griswold, an all-American suburban Chicago couple who take their kids on an ill-fated cross-country road trip to a California amusement park.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration officials urged Congress on Tuesday to renew a surveillance program the government has long seen as vital in protecting national security but whose future is uncertain because of scrutiny from an unusual alignment of civil liberties advocates and some Republicans.
The program, which is under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, grants American spy agencies sweeping powers to surveil and examine communications of foreigners located outside the United States.
Moses Sumney
American Rapper
26 years old
Single
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Carey Price
Canadian Hockey Player
36 years old
Married
Full Name Carey Price Age 36 Birth date August 16, 1987 Horoscope Leo Birth Place Vancouver, Canada Profession Hockey Player Net Worth $13 million Martial Status Married Height 6′ 3″ Ethnicity White Nationality Canadian Weight 221 lbs (100 kg) Hair Color Black Eye Color Dark Brown Ahead, we take a look at who is Carey Price dating now, who has he dated, Carey Price’s wife, past relationships and dating history.
Keke Palmer is a multi-talented American actress, singer, and television host who has achieved fame through her successful career in the entertainment industry.
She first rose to prominence as a child actress with her breakthrough role in the 2006 film “Akeelah and the Bee”. Since then, Keke Palmer has gone on to star in a variety of film and television projects, including “True Jackson, VP,” “Scream Queens,” “Hustlers,” and “Pimp.”
Samuel L. Jackson takes hostages in "The Negotiator." (Warner Bros.) "The Negotiator" is a whodunit so bafflingly constructed that you can't even figure out what it is, so the whodun part is superfluous.
Gilligan’s Island is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967. The series is a comedy about seven castaways that survived on an island after a shipwreck.
The show was popular especially in the 1980s when it was shown in different countries.
The cast was; Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells and Charles Maxwell.