CFPB Orders Global Tel Link to Pay $3 Million for Illegally Freezing and Draining Payments Accounts for People Who Are Incarcerated | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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The CFPB took action against Global Tel Link Corporation and its subsidiaries for taking millions of dollars from consumer accounts and blocking money transfers to consumers who are incarcerated.

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Global Tel Link Corporation (GTL) for illegally taking millions of dollars from more than a half million accounts and blocking money transfers to consumers who are incarcerated, which the consumers relied on for goods such as food, medicine, and clothing. The CFPB is ordering GTL and its subsidiaries to stop their illegal practices, pay at least $2 million in redress to victims, and pay a $1 million penalty to the CFPB’s victims relief fund.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    2·
    10 hours ago

    at least 10x the amount the victim was affected by, so $10 million, paid to the victims, and then that again punitively.