From our partner inewsource: Debt collection cases make up a huge portion of civil filings in county courts. Some experts say the volume of cases makes it difficult to police bad behavior from debt collectors.
was able to get a more complete picture in San Diego County, where Achievable Solutions has filed at least 463 cases from May 2019 to December 2022. So far 21 cases have resulted in a default judgment against the defendant — totaling more than $94,000. Achievable Solutions continued filing new cases in San Diego County through the end of 2022.
But Ivette said she lived alone in early 2020. Her building had a superintendent, but she never told Ivette someone had stopped by. In March 2022, Kai Haswell, an attorney who worked at Bay Area Legal Aid, filed a lawsuit in Alameda County against Achievable Solutions, A-United Attorney Service and several related parties. In the complaint, Haswell alleged that the three main entities involved in these lawsuits — the debt collection company, the process server company and the law firm filing these lawsuits — work in concert in an illegal money making scheme using sewer service.
Moreover, Haswell noted in an interview that many of the proofs of service she looked at were from March and April 2020 — the first months of pandemic-related lockdown. On top of that, Haswell’s complaint alleges that the evidence Achievable Solutions cites to prove ownership of the debts wouldn’t hold up to scrutiny. Haswell also toldthat the interest rates on some of the loans — some of the LoanMe loans had interest rates as high as 184% — would make the cases even easier to challenge.
Cheng initially described himself as an investor in Achievable Solutions. He described the ties between the companies — what Haswell described as a conflict of interest — as vertical integration.But in a second conversation, he said he had no direct involvement in Achievable Solutions — he only runs SueYa and A-United, the companies filling out proofs of service for the courts.
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