The California Attorney General submitted a brief in support of Riverside District Attorney Michael Hestrin’s attempted prosecution of Credit One May 26.
The DA’s office is attempting to prosecute Credit One for their debt-collection practices in state court, with the district attorneys of San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Clara. They claim the bank illegally harasses consumers to pay off debts by continually calling them as often as nine times a day.
In one month in 2019, Credit One had 12,250 consumers called a combined 1.8 million times, for an average of 146 calls per person in a month. Another 9,700 consumers received a total of 1.5
