Complaint Review: ELTMAN ELTMAN AND COOPER - GWENDOLINE RICHARDSON - New York New York

Stacey Anne Lopez, a daughter of Joan Lopez and Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn, was married on Friday to Sean E. Breves, the son of Peggy Goldberg and John Breves, both of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Judge Wayne Saitta of Civil Court in Brooklyn, officiated at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mrs. Breves, 28, is the social worker at Public School 268 in Brooklyn. She graduated from Brooklyn College and has a master's in social work from Yeshiva University. Her father is the State Assemblyman for District 53, which includes the Bushwick and Williamsburg sections, and is the chairman of the Assembly Standing Committee on Housing. Her mother is the office manager in the Brooklyn office of Eltman, Eltman & Cooper, a law firm, which is moving to Manhattan this month. Mr. Breves, 25, teaches English at the Wisdom Lane Junior High School in Levittown, N.Y. He graduated from the State University at Cortland, N.Y., and in September will enter the master's degree program in English literature at Queens College. His mother is the office manager for Dr. Charles L. Starke, an internist and private practitioner in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. His father retired as a maintenance supervisor in Manhattan for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The bridegroom is the stepson of Robert Goldberg and Lori Breves.

Stacey Anne Lopez, a daughter of Joan Lopez and Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn, was married on Friday to Sean E. Breves, the son of Peggy Goldberg and John Breves, both of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Judge Wayne Saitta of Civil Court in Brooklyn, officiated at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mrs. Breves, 28, is the social worker at Public School 268 in Brooklyn. She graduated from Brooklyn College and has a master's in social work from Yeshiva University. Her father is the State Assemblyman for District 53, which includes the Bushwick and Williamsburg sections, and is the chairman of the Assembly Standing Committee on Housing. Her mother is the office manager in the Brooklyn office of Eltman, Eltman & Cooper, a law firm, which is moving to Manhattan this month. Mr. Breves, 25, teaches English at the Wisdom Lane Junior High School in Levittown, N.Y. He graduated from the State University at Cortland, N.Y., and in September will enter the master's degree program in English literature at Queens College. His mother is the office manager for Dr. Charles L. Starke, an internist and private practitioner in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. His father retired as a maintenance supervisor in Manhattan for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The bridegroom is the stepson of Robert Goldberg and Lori Breves.

Stacey Anne Lopez, a daughter of Joan Lopez and Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn, was married on Friday to Sean E. Breves, the son of Peggy Goldberg and John Breves, both of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Judge Wayne Saitta of Civil Court in Brooklyn, officiated at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mrs. Breves, 28, is the social worker at Public School 268 in Brooklyn. She graduated from Brooklyn College and has a master's in social work from Yeshiva University. Her father is the State Assemblyman for District 53, which includes the Bushwick and Williamsburg sections, and is the chairman of the Assembly Standing Committee on Housing. Her mother is the office manager in the Brooklyn office of Eltman, Eltman & Cooper, a law firm, which is moving to Manhattan this month. Mr. Breves, 25, teaches English at the Wisdom Lane Junior High School in Levittown, N.Y. He graduated from the State University at Cortland, N.Y., and in September will enter the master's degree program in English literature at Queens College. His mother is the office manager for Dr. Charles L. Starke, an internist and private practitioner in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. His father retired as a maintenance supervisor in Manhattan for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The bridegroom is the stepson of Robert Goldberg and Lori Breves.

Stacey Anne Lopez, a daughter of Joan Lopez and Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn, was married on Friday to Sean E. Breves, the son of Peggy Goldberg and John Breves, both of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Judge Wayne Saitta of Civil Court in Brooklyn, officiated at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mrs. Breves, 28, is the social worker at Public School 268 in Brooklyn. She graduated from Brooklyn College and has a master's in social work from Yeshiva University. Her father is the State Assemblyman for District 53, which includes the Bushwick and Williamsburg sections, and is the chairman of the Assembly Standing Committee on Housing. Her mother is the office manager in the Brooklyn office of Eltman, Eltman & Cooper, a law firm, which is moving to Manhattan this month. Mr. Breves, 25, teaches English at the Wisdom Lane Junior High School in Levittown, N.Y. He graduated from the State University at Cortland, N.Y., and in September will enter the master's degree program in English literature at Queens College. His mother is the office manager for Dr. Charles L. Starke, an internist and private practitioner in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. His father retired as a maintenance supervisor in Manhattan for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The bridegroom is the stepson of Robert Goldberg and Lori Breves.

Debt Collection Letters Sent by Law Firms Without Attorney Review Violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. On May 10, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York held that law firms that send debt collection letters on behalf of debt collection agencies violate the FDCPA when those letters are automatically generated without individualized attorney review of the facts of the case. Reade-Alvarez v. Eltman, Eltman & Cooper, P.C., No. 04-CV-2195-ILG (E.D.N.Y. 2005). The court found that sending form letters on firm letterhead to collect debts violated the FDCPA because it created an impression that attorneys had reviewed the matter and were familiar with the case, when in fact there had been no attorney review. The FDCPA requires some degree of attorney involvement in the letter, including direct control or supervision of the process through which the letter is sent. The court, however, dismissed as not actionable under the FDCPA plaintiffs' claim that the use of form letters amounted to the unauthorized practice of law by the debt collection agency as the firm's alter ego.

Ripped off, There is more to the story here, as no lawyer or collection agency can "freeze" your bank account without first suing you and getting a judgement. Therefore, you were previously sued and lost, or they fabricated documents. A debt from 1992 is out of SOL and cannot be collected. There is no way you should have paid them. When you made that $500 payment, you validated the debt and reset the SOL. They can now sue you and win. You need to get a lawyer right away and countersue them for damages, and your money back. Also speak to a prosecutor and see if you can get criminal charges on them. This is outright fraud and potentially extortion.

Was a judgement ever entered against you for citibank? Did this attorney send you a notice for a hearing to dispute the taking of the funds? get all the paperwork, form the bank that this lawyer, used to freeze your account. Sent this attorney, a validation letter, (RRR) pull your credit report and see if a judgement is on there. contact an attorney or legal aid there in new york. Dispute, the taking of the 120.00 with your bank, you want a fed reg form E file a complaint with the bar assoc. close this bank account, and use cash and money orders until you get this fixed, everytime they want a payment your account will be forzen. File complaints with FTC, new york attorney general. there are statute of limitation on debts, and if this debt was from 1992, its passed the SOL. it sounds like a default judgement was entered against you( I GUESS) for failure to appear, but if you were never served a summons, get an attorney to file a motion to vacate the judgement, then sue the hell out of them.