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October 2, 2008 - # 1001

Debt Settlement

It sounds too good to be true.

 

You're thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of dollars in debt, and there is a company on TV promising that they can settle your debts for pennies on the dollar.

 

Is there a down side? Is it really possible, or is it too good to be true?

Norman Googel, Esq.

Asst WV Attorney General



Martin Sheehan, Esq.

Bankruptcy Trustee




Dan Ringer

Dan Ringer has worked with West Virginia Public Broadcasting as a volunteer since 1987 in several capacities, including as co-host of 2 prior public affairs series - On the Line With ... and Stateline Friday. He has also hosted numerous WV PBS specials concerning education, voters' rights, and political candidate debates. In 1999 Dan was named WV's first Lawyer Citizen of the Year of the WV Bar Foundation. He served as president of the WV State Bar 1999-2000 and was named the Practitioner of the Year by the American Bar Association in 2000. Dan practices law in Morgantown.
Pubcaster - October 2008
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