A Houston debt collection lawyer has been hit with a $25 million judgment after being sued by the Texas Attorney General’s Office for filing abusive lawsuits against hundreds of people in Harris County and failing to protect their sensitive information.
The lawyer, Joseph Onwuteaka, is a Houston attorney who owns a debt collection company called Samara Portfolio and uses his own solo law firm to file thousands of debt collection cases, according to the Attorney General’s complaint.
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