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US Marshals arresting people for not paying their federal student loans
Fox (Houston) ^

Posted on 02/16/2016 7:43:54 AM PST by TigerClaws

HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Believe it or not, the US Marshals Service in Houston is arresting people for not paying their outstanding federal student loans.

Paul Aker says he was arrested at his home last week for a $1500 federal student loan he received in 1987.

He says seven deputy US Marshals showed up at his home with guns and took him to federal court where he had to sign a payment plan for the 29-year-old school loan.

Congressman Gene Green says the federal government is now using private debt collectors to go after those who owe student loans.

Green says as a result, those attorneys and debt collectors are getting judgements in federal court and asking judges to use the US Marshals Service to arrest those who have failed to pay their federal student loans.

Our reliable source with the US Marshal in Houston say Aker isn't the first and won't be the last.

They have to serve anywhere from 1200 to 1500 warrants to people who have failed to pay their federal student loans.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox26houston.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrest; debt; studentloans
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To: Hulka
True. . but how much is now being collected from other immature, ungrateful, dead-beat slackers that are now worried that THEY may be arrested for borrowing money and then choosing not to pay it back?

If they've been in denial this long I wouldn't count on this prying very many of them out of it.

41 posted on 02/16/2016 8:37:16 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: TigerClaws

I though that under obama he changed it that if you hadn’t paid it in 20 years you were free and clear of repaying it. I thought he changed it from 25 years down to 20 so what gives?


42 posted on 02/16/2016 8:38:07 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: Hulka

Sorry that crap isn’t going to play. This isn’t some fool that charged up $30k in plastic surgery (which is dischargeable debt), most of these folks went into debt for programs which led to no jobs.

Make school loans dischargeable and we’ll see how hard schools push loans.


43 posted on 02/16/2016 8:39:06 AM PST by moehoward
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To: moehoward

I like it.


44 posted on 02/16/2016 8:43:04 AM PST by JohnnyP
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To: Hulka

I’m not saying let the deadbeats get away with not paying.....it’s just overkill to send seven U.S. Marshals like the guy is some kind of drug kingpin.

A better way would be to put a lien on his home or condo, or attach a bank account, garner his wages; something on that order.


45 posted on 02/16/2016 8:44:47 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason.....Mark Twain)
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To: tacticalogic

Interest and fines will ensure it’s way more than $1500 outstanding.


46 posted on 02/16/2016 8:46:53 AM PST by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Red Badger

What’s the point of me saving 529’s for my children when I can just get it for “free”?

Political leaders HATE responsible peasants....


47 posted on 02/16/2016 8:54:44 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Amnesty advocates call me "Tio Tomas")
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To: Azeem

Well I think you are partly right here. We don’t have debtor’s prison in the US so you can’t be jailed for debt but if the the court sends you a notice to appear at a judement hearing and you don’t bother to show up they can put out a bench warrant. Probably the best thing to do is show up and go out in the hallway and make a deal with the debtholder. If you can’t make the payments later because you are totally broke then there’s not much they can do.


48 posted on 02/16/2016 8:57:22 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Azeem
The collectors went to court and a judge ruled against Mr. Aker, which he obviously ignored. That is why he was arrested.

Which is fine but why send 7 jackboots for a situation that requires one or two Sheriffs deputies when the feds aren't involved? Is there some violent history we are not being made aware of or do the Feds think they are so hated that all debt collection will be met with violence?

49 posted on 02/16/2016 9:01:06 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: TigerClaws

It’s about time. In 1987 my dentist bragged he owed over $40,000 and wasn’t going to pay it. He filled my teeth (tooth) said the bill was $300. I said I wasn’t going to pay it, I had to make a student loan payment. I had bill collectors etc. after me until I decided to pay it. Dickered with them and it only cost $235.00.


50 posted on 02/16/2016 9:04:31 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: GizzyGirl

So I guess they have purged all our government workers who have not paid their taxes then, right?.....ANNNND Al Sharpton?


51 posted on 02/16/2016 9:08:45 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: TigerClaws

He hasn’t made enough in almost 30 years to pay off a $1500 loan?


52 posted on 02/16/2016 9:09:00 AM PST by PAR35
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To: ladyjane

Well, I didn’t say that “college should be free.”

What I DID allude to - and if you had reading skills, you’d have caught this - is that the government uses the promise of free money to sucker college students into a vortex from which they won’t be able to escape, and purposefully does this.


53 posted on 02/16/2016 9:09:08 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: TigerClaws
Let me get this right:

this low-life loser SCUMBALL DEADBEAT couldn't scrape together $1,500 over 29 years to pay off his student loan?!

Really?!

I cannot wait to see them start arresting the "millenials" who've racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt for worthless college degrees that'll never amount to a nickel of a paycheck!!

54 posted on 02/16/2016 9:11:39 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: oh8eleven
Wow, what's next, debtors prison? What a great country this has become in the last 7 years.

So what are you saying? It's ok to accept a loan and then, for 30 years make NO effort at all to repay that loan? That's ok with you?

55 posted on 02/16/2016 9:18:10 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Back in the day, I made a time deposit with Discover bank and when I went to close it out, I just wrote a check for the account balance and cashed it. There was a delay in the check posting such that about thirty cents was left in the account. I ignored it. Yet every month for about six months, I’d get a statement in the mail without postage that was more than my balance. Someone eventually wised up...


56 posted on 02/16/2016 9:21:44 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: pgkdan

Pay up sucker! You’re in your mid 50s, stop relying on the American taxpayer to float your loan for life, deadbeat!


57 posted on 02/16/2016 9:21:58 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: TigerClaws

What ever happened to the loan defaulting, the Treasury picking it up and garnishing wages? I know a couple people who let their loans get to that point. One pay day a rather large sum was “missing” from their pay and continued to be missing until they were paid off.
I guess that wouldn’t be sensational enough?


58 posted on 02/16/2016 9:32:02 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

“Which is fine but why send 7 jackboots for a situation”

Maybe they were picking up a bunch of them at once? Two for each van (3 vans) plus a supervisor. Or maybe they were training other Marshals on how to properly do it so violence doesn’t occur when they go after the others.

Do you want the local Sheriff coming after you to do the Fed’s dirty work? (think about possible future Federal laws that might contradict with State law - like Kansas)


59 posted on 02/16/2016 9:33:14 AM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy
What I DID allude to - and if you had reading skills, you’d have caught this

Again I will say - you are on the wrong website.

60 posted on 02/16/2016 9:51:22 AM PST by ladyjane
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