Ellis Crosby & Associates Collection Agency Ordered To Pay $1.3 Million
Four years after Ted Ellis Crosby was court-martialed by the Navy for being a drug dealer, he founded the Ellis Crosby & Associates collection agency. Last year, Crosby spent six months in a Florida county jail for being a felon in possession of a firearm. And also last year the state of Florida obtained a court order banning Crosby from conducting debt collections in Florida and sued his collection agency for $1.3 million after hundreds of complaints about Ted's illegal practices. You would think that would be enough to discourage Ted.
But you would be wrong.
Winning the 1.3 million (that Ted and his bill collectors will never pay) was a moral victory of sorts over Ted and his collectors for their:
1) Claiming or implying to be attorneys or government agents and threatening arrest or other legal action against consumers.
2) Claiming or collecting non existent or exorbitant debt amounts.
3) The use of harassing or intimidating techniques such as repeated phone calls or calls to neighbors, relatives and employers.
In one phone call taped by a consumer who was falsely accused of owing Ted money, one of Ted's bill collectors pretended to be talking on a walkie talkie coordinating a police raid on the consumer's home so he could take the single mom away from her two young children if she didn't pay $1000 by credit card right then.
However, since bill collectors are charged in civil court for their mail and wire fraud and police impersonations, instead of criminal court where they belong, Ted and his collectors were out and available during this suit by the state A.G. to set up another company, Bass Prelitigation Services, and go on about their organized crime business.
Now the Florida Attorney General is also pursuing a separate $1.3 million civil suit against Bass Prelitigation Services.
Meanwhile, if the past is a guide to the future, as he gets closer to losing the next million dollar suit, Ted Ellis Crosby will be inventing a new collection agency name and printing new letterhead for his next criminal operation.
But you would be wrong.
Winning the 1.3 million (that Ted and his bill collectors will never pay) was a moral victory of sorts over Ted and his collectors for their:
1) Claiming or implying to be attorneys or government agents and threatening arrest or other legal action against consumers.
2) Claiming or collecting non existent or exorbitant debt amounts.
3) The use of harassing or intimidating techniques such as repeated phone calls or calls to neighbors, relatives and employers.
In one phone call taped by a consumer who was falsely accused of owing Ted money, one of Ted's bill collectors pretended to be talking on a walkie talkie coordinating a police raid on the consumer's home so he could take the single mom away from her two young children if she didn't pay $1000 by credit card right then.
However, since bill collectors are charged in civil court for their mail and wire fraud and police impersonations, instead of criminal court where they belong, Ted and his collectors were out and available during this suit by the state A.G. to set up another company, Bass Prelitigation Services, and go on about their organized crime business.
Now the Florida Attorney General is also pursuing a separate $1.3 million civil suit against Bass Prelitigation Services.
Meanwhile, if the past is a guide to the future, as he gets closer to losing the next million dollar suit, Ted Ellis Crosby will be inventing a new collection agency name and printing new letterhead for his next criminal operation.
Labels: Collection Agency, consumer fraud
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