CFPB and two states sue loan brokers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced that the Bureau, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs, and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge have filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of South Carolina against Candy Kern-Fuller, Howard Sutter III, and Upstate Law Group LLC. The Bureau alleges that the defendants worked with a series of companies that brokered contracts offering high-interest credit to consumers, primarily disabled veterans, and violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act’s prohibition against deceptive acts or practices and against providing substantial assistance to deceptive and unfair acts or practices of others.