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Mann Bracken LLP -- Please help

Date: Wed, 01/13/2010 - 10:43

Submitted by anonymous
on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 10:43

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two years ago i was served with a court order for a gym membership I cancelled. I still had to pay. I settled with Mann Bracken LLP. They have been deducting $125 from my account every month up until December 2009. I found this weird that they have not called me. I tried calling the numbers on my statement but they seem to be disconnected. I looked online and the numbers there are all disconnected. I am not sure what to do at this point??? Can someone please help.


Mann Bracken has been closed - all numbers you call will be out of service. I have this same problem. I was told that my account was sent back to target. I called target and I spoke with a customer service provider that said my account with still with MB and she wasn't aware that they closed. She gave me the number that had for MB and I called the number with her on the phone - the number was disconnected. She got her supervisor on the phone and let me know that there was a new department in target handling MB issues. I was transferred to this 'new' department and was told that all account target had sold to MB had come back and that they were trying to deal with them.

Your account has probably been sent back to the original creditor.

I just recieved a court date with MB (we were just about to settle out of court, but now I guess that offer is gone) so I'm completely lost as to what to do. The target employee says they are trying to figure it all out, but they recieved thousands of accounts back and it is going to take them some time.


lrhall41

Submitted by on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 06:38

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Mann Bracken is gone forever. Google them and you'll find things that have happened just this past week. MB has quit running all its cases in Maryland and maybe in other states, so Testuser1, that could be what the court date is about--asking to stay the case to give the creditor a chance to find new counsel. If you show up and they don't, the judge just might throw the case out. So by all means, show up with all your papers. It might be your very lucky day, but ask a lawyer in your state for their opinion.

Just a couple weeks ago, the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation started getting complaints that MB wasn't cashing checks for payment, and tried to call MB but the phones were disconnected. Then CFR heard that MB sent a letter to one of the county court clerks announcing that it was going out of business, and asking the clerk to stay all their cases in the entire state of Maryland, because when MB's support contractor (Axiant--who comes up with these dumb names?) went bankrupt, MB couldn't run court cases (and didn't let on that Axiant owed MB over ten million bucks). This note didn't specify which cases MB was on, leaving it up to the poor clerks of court to figure it out.

The Maryland Collection Agency Licensing Board was not amused, and pulled MB's debt collection permit "summarily" (on an emergency basis). Among other things, MB just assing out of probably 14,000 cases, and not serving the other parties with notice, and lying to the courts about it, and then vanishing off the face of the earth, all without letting the Board know, was a bit much, even by collection industry standards. Also, the order noted, it looked like MB massively violated lawyer ethical rules and would be in very, very hot water with the Bar.

This is great news. Yes, even in America, you can't just violate fair debt collection law all day long for years on end and expect to totally get away with it.


lrhall41

Submitted by on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 16:33

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