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Bureau and AR AG settle with high-rate credit broker

The CFPB has announced that the Bureau and the Office of the Arkansas Attorney General have filed a proposed settlement with Andrew Gamber, Voyager Financial Group, LLC, BAIC, Inc., and SoBell Corp. The companies, owned and operated by Gamber, were brokers of contracts offering high-interest credit to veterans, many of whom are disabled, and to other consumers.

Gamber and his companies are alleged in the Complaint to have misrepresented to consumers that the contracts the companies facilitate are valid and enforceable when, in fact, the contracts are void under federal and state law; misrepresented to consumers that the product is a sale of payments and not a high-interest credit offer; misrepresented to consumers when they will receive their funds; and failed to inform consumers of the applicable interest rate on the credit offer.

Under the proposed settlement, Gamber and the companies are permanently banned from brokering, offering, or arranging agreements between pension recipients and third parties under which the consumer purports to sell a future right to an income stream from the consumer’s pension. The proposed settlement would also impose a judgment for redress of $2.7 million, a civil money penalty of $1 to the Bureau, and a payment of $75,000 to the Arkansas Attorney General’s Consumer Education and Enforcement Fund in lieu of a civil money penalty to the State of Arkansas. Full payment of redress would be suspended upon Gamber's paying $200,000 for redress, $1 to the Bureau and $75,000 to Arkansas, unless information in sworn financial statements proves false .

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