Billion-Dollar Bank Paying $700,000 Penalty for Illegally Freezing Accounts, Transferring Customers’ Cash to Debt Collectors

New York’s Attorney General is penalizing a national bank for freezing its customers’ accounts and handing the funds over to debt collectors. New York AG Letitia James says an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that South Dakota-based Pathward Bank illegally sent debt collectors tens of thousands of dollars from New Yorkers’ […] source: https://dailyhodl.com/2024/04/29/billion-dollar-bank-paying-700000-penalty-for-illegally-freezing-accounts-transferring-customers-cash-to-debt-collectors/