Fake credit repair scheme assets frozen

The Federal Trade Commission has announced that a federal court has issued a temporary restraining order halting the operations and freezing the assets of Grand Teton Professionals LLC, an alleged credit repair scheme that charged illegal upfront fees and falsely claimed to repair consumers' credit. The company and other defendants are charged with violating the Federal Trade Commission Act and several provisions of the Credit Repair Organizations Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Consumer Review Fairness Act, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. A complaint filed by the FTC alleges that, since at least 2014, two of the defendants, Douglas Filter and Marcio G. Andrade, have operated an unlawful credit repair scam that bilked consumers out of at least $6.2 million.