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HARRISBURG —Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 19 other Attorneys General today sent a letter to U.S. Senate leaders defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Arbitration Rule, which stops companies from forcing consumers to sign away legal rights. The House recently passed a Joint Resolution of Disapproval that would set aside the CFPB’s Arbitration Rule under […]
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today he is creating a Consumer Financial Protection Unit to better protect Pennsylvania consumers from financial scams, and appointing an experienced consumer protection attorney to lead the initiative. Attorney General Shapiro announced the appointment of Nicholas Smyth, who helped create the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), as […]
HARRISBURG —Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced a proposed settlement with Aequitas Capital Management, a defunct investment firm, that provides $6.7 million in debt relief for 1,200 Pennsylvanians who attended for-profit colleges. The proposed settlement, which is subject to approval by an Oregon federal court overseeing Aequitas’ receivership, is part of a broader settlement worth […]
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro today is filing a lawsuit with a group of 18 Attorneys General to stop a new federal rule that threatens to bar hundreds of thousands of international students from studying in the United States.
Shapiro: “Rolling back borrower protections hurts Pennsylvanians” HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today joined a multistate letter with 20 other attorneys general that expresses “profound concern” to the U.S. Department of Education for abdicating its responsibility to millions of student loan borrowers and their families across the country by revoking critical reforms designed to […]
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro today permanently shut down Equitable Acceptance’s efforts to operate in Pennsylvania, and is requiring the company to cancel nearly $200,000 in debt for its former Commonwealth customers.