A class-action suit claims more than 100,000 New Yorkers are victims of a network of debt collectors who used fraudulent documents to surreptitiously win court judgments.
From the article: “[A] 2008 report by MFY Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm in New York, found that defendants in consumer debt cases showed up in court less than 10 percent of the time, raising questions about whether they were ever properly served and about the prevalence of sewer service in the industry.”