{"id":17743,"date":"2015-07-08T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=17743"},"modified":"2015-07-08T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T03:13:00","slug":"florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg\" alt=\"pam-bondi3-hr\" width=\"620\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-500x247.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-768x379.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi\u00a0held a press conference\u00a0on July 8\u00a0at Stetson&#8217;s Tampa Law Center to announce a $136 million joint state-federal settlement with Chase Bank USA N.A. and Chase Bankcard Services Inc. for its unlawful credit card debt collection practices.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was reached with Chase and 48 attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Florida will receive the largest remedial payment of any state in the settlement. Attorney General Bondi announced that $15.3 million will go to 47 non-profit organizations across the state to be used for legal services, financial literacy, and other programs related to assisting Floridians with managing debt.\u00a0Stetson\u2019s Center for Excellence in Elder Law and Consumer Fraud Project are expected to receive $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I am announcing an agreement we can all be proud of. Now Chase customers will have more protections, eligible customers who were unfairly affected by these debt collection practices will receive restitution and non-profit organizations across our state will gain additional resources to continue helping Floridians in need,\u201d said Attorney General Bondi, a 1990 graduate of Stetson University College of Law.<\/p>\n<p>Roberta Flowers, Stetson professor of law and co-director of the Center for Excellence in Elder Law, attended the press conference, along with leaders from other non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStetson University College of Law has a proud history of working for and with the elderly of Florida.\u00a0For many years, the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/academics\/elder\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Excellence in Elder Law<\/a> at Stetson has educated seniors, their families and friends about the greedy predators who want only to steal their hard earned money and life savings,\u201d said Professor Flowers. \u201cWe are very grateful for the Attorney General&#8217;s continued support for our efforts to protect our vulnerable elders through our Consumer Fraud Project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi\u00a0held a press conference\u00a0on July 8\u00a0at Stetson&#8217;s Tampa Law Center to announce a $136 million joint state-federal settlement with Chase Bank USA N.A. and Chase Bankcard Services Inc. for its unlawful credit card debt collection practices. The settlement was reached with Chase and 48 attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1408,1920],"class_list":["post-17743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-1","tag-bondi","tag-settlement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center - Stetson Law News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced news of a settlement at Stetson&#039;s Tampa Law Center.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center - Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced news of a settlement at Stetson&#039;s Tampa Law Center.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-09T03:13:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/45d37a212004838e671873eeca3a1f76\"},\"headline\":\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-09T03:13:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":303,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bondi\",\"settlement\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/\",\"name\":\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center - Stetson Law News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-09T03:13:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/45d37a212004838e671873eeca3a1f76\"},\"description\":\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced news of a settlement at Stetson's Tampa Law Center.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/08\\\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Stetson Law News\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/45d37a212004838e671873eeca3a1f76\",\"name\":\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/amcknighttaylor\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center - Stetson Law News","description":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced news of a settlement at Stetson's Tampa Law Center.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center - Stetson Law News","og_description":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced news of a settlement at Stetson's Tampa Law Center.","og_url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/","og_site_name":"Stetson Law News","article_published_time":"2015-07-09T03:13:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Ashley McKnight-Taylor","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ashley McKnight-Taylor","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/"},"author":{"name":"Ashley McKnight-Taylor","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/45d37a212004838e671873eeca3a1f76"},"headline":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center","datePublished":"2015-07-09T03:13:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/"},"wordCount":303,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg","keywords":["Bondi","settlement"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/","name":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center - Stetson Law News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg","datePublished":"2015-07-09T03:13:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/45d37a212004838e671873eeca3a1f76"},"description":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced news of a settlement at Stetson's Tampa Law Center.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pam-bondi3-hr-1024x505.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-settlement-at-the-tampa-law-center\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announces settlement at the Tampa Law Center"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/","name":"Stetson Law News","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/45d37a212004838e671873eeca3a1f76","name":"Ashley McKnight-Taylor","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/author\/amcknighttaylor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17751,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions\/17751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}