{"id":68244,"date":"2016-10-02T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68244"},"modified":"2016-10-02T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:28:20","slug":"usa-discounters-settles-disputes-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68244","title":{"rendered":"USA Discounters settles disputes in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54267\">Over two years ago<\/a>, NHSparky wrote about USA Discounters which had a business plan that seemed to be all about ripping off the troops. Hack Stone sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/virginia\/2016\/10\/usa-discounters-retailer-agrees-to-settlement-with-states\/\">a link today<\/a> about their settlement with Virginia victims;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement Friday that the settlement with USA Discounters includes more than $10.5 million to over 8,000 Virginia customers. The settlement includes 49 states and the District of Columbia. Though the company settled, it denies any wrongdoing according to the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>State officials alleged that USA Discounters engaged in deceptive advertising and abusive debt collection practices. Certain consumers will have remaining debt wiped out; others will get a $100 credit. The settlement\u2019s terms also include a $40 million penalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two years ago, NHSparky wrote about USA Discounters which had a business plan that seemed to be all about ripping off the troops. Hack Stone sends us a link today about their settlement with Virginia victims; Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement Friday that the settlement with USA Discounters includes more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hKI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}