Chapter 5 Officially Begins in Department of ED Private Debt Collection Saga

This week FMS Investment Corp. (FMS) filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding the terms of the Federal Student Aid (FSA) NextGen procurement (Solicitation 91003118R0024). In a saga that began in 2014, and has seen multiple rounds of protests and litigation come and go, I dub this the beginning of Chapter 5.

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35 State Attorneys General Request the FCC to Implement New Rules to Combat Illegal Spam Robocalls

Yesterday, a bipartisan coalition of 35 state attorneys general submitted a reply comment in response to a public notice issued by the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau requesting comments on how the FCC can empower telephone providers to block illegal robocalls. The FCC last November released the 2017 Call Blocking Order and adopted a set of robocall rules that allowed telephone providers to proactively block calls from invalid and unassigned numbers – but the attorneys general state in their reply comment, that this hasn’t been enough to cure the problem. “

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