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Check diversion companies claim that they are merely providing ministerial services for district attorneys.   The fact is that they are simply collection agencies that pay the district attorney for permission to make threats and collect checks in the district attorney’s name.  These companies have been heavily criticized in a number of newspaper and internet articles, most recently on Lou Dobbs, on CNN on March 2, 2009.  The following are links to a sampling of the stories about ACCS and check diversion. (Links will open in a new window.) 
 

6/8/2009:  Los Angeles Times - Bad-check Letters are Misleading, Critics Say
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bounce8-2009jun08,0,514995.story?page=1
 
3/17/2009: Pro Publica - Push to Redo Law That Lets DAs Profit From Bad Checks

http://www.propublica.org/article/a-push-to-overhaul-law-that-lets-das-profit-from-bad-checks-317

 
3/15/2009: N.Y. Times Union-Collection Agency “Renting” DA Clout
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=779965
 

3/4/2009: Trees & Things-Bouncing Checks Pay Big Dividends
http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2009/3/3/13435/28282
 

3/2/2009: Pro Public.org-Bounced Checks: How Local District Attorneys Get a Cut of the Debt Collection Business

http://www.propublica.org/feature/bounced-checks-how-local-das-get-a-cut-of-the-debt-collection-business

 

3/2/2009: CNN-Bounced-check collection deals draw fire

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/02/siu.bad.checks/index.html?iref=newssearch

 

12/9/2008: Santa Rosa Press Democrat-Refund of Local Bad Check Fees Possible

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081209/BUSINESS/812090359

 

3/2/2008: Santa Rosa Press Democrat-Bad Check Bullying

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080302/NEWS/803020365

 

2/9/2008: Los Angeles Times-Government Contractor Not Entitled to Immunity
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1425621661.html?dids=1425621661:1425621661&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+8%2C+2008&author=Molly+Selvin&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=C.3&desc=Government+contractor+not+entitled+to+immunity%3B+A+debt+collector+paid+by+prosecutors+can+be+sued%2C+judges+rule.

 

5/3/2006: Baltimore Sun-Bad Check Bill Faulted
Open PDF 

 

May 2006:ethicsscoreboard.com-American Corrective Counseling Services
http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/sites/0605_accs.html

 

5/21/2001: Atlanta Constitution Journal-DeKalb DA’s Check Plan Bounce
Open PDF

 

5/20/01: Des Moines Time Register-Bad Check Cases Bring Warnings, Little Action

http://www.citizen.org/documents/DMR.pdf

 
 
 
 
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