Watch Out For Tim Geithner And His Predatory Lending Scams

Former United States Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, is now in charge of a new ugly predatory lending company known as Mariner Finance. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discusses this issue.

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Tim Geithner is in charge of a company called Mariner. They are predatory, ugly, predatory lenders. Tim Geithner, you might remember, was in charge of our money under the, under the Obama Administration. The predatory lending story has been outrageous. Fortunately, I'm here with Farron cousins who has followed this story more than anybody I know. It's an outrageous story. Uh, tell. Tell us how predatory lending works first of all, and then tell us how this dnc sweet heart. Okay. DNC Sweetheart. Tim Geithner Pals with Larry Summers who is also kind of DNC sweetheart. How is he now? One of the predatory, a jackals I'll call him is really, really what he is. He's not only as Geithner become one of the jackals, he is revolutionized these predatory payday lending scams because rather than set up these, you know, run down offices in the poorest parts of neighborhoods, like the cash advance, you know, things like that, that we've seen in the past with predatory lenders. He has tried to make it into more of an upscale a venture. He gives out larger loans, higher interest rates, but larger loans for more money. And now what he and Mariner are doing, which they now have 450 branches in 22 different states, they're just, and I wish there was a more sophisticated way to say this, but there's not. They're just mailing checks to poor people hoping that the poor people cashed the check so that they can catch them and now they've got them in this loan that this person may not have known.

That sounds so incredible, but it's the truth again, the poor person doesn't ask for the check. They do background checks. They see sometimes that the person may have equity in their home. They'll actually, they do all their homework, but the person is living subsistence existence, barely making payments, barely staying alive in the Tim Geithner crew, Tim Geithner, Obama's financial guy now says, well, I got to get idea. We're gonna. We're gonna. Mail them a check and if they catch it, we got em. Isn't that it? And here's what they do as well. This is part of the scheme they go through, they look through hospital billing databases, they look through, you know, any kind of car repaired database anywhere where you've given your name and phone number, things like that. They can see who gets popped with a big bill. Say you just, you know, had a surgery, your insurance covered most of it, but now you have a hospital bill for $5,000 couple of days later a $5,000 check shows up and you say, okay, well I could really use this right now to pay this and be done with it before.

That goes to collections. They also work with collection agencies to find out who owes what. So it is very targeted. It is very sophisticated and these checks do not come with very much explanation, a little bit of fine print that nobody reads. They think, oh well, you know, this is a good thing. I'm probably five percent interest better than a credit card reality. Almost 40 percent interest on these things and they lock them in. And then as a matter of fact, let me, let me just tell you something. Finally, the king of predatory lending went to prison. One of the Kings. Now there's so many out there right now. Now the new king is Tim Geithner. Okay, this is. This is the DNC, golden boy who is now running this pathetic, ugly scam. Let, let me back up just a second. Before they send the check, they have abilities to find out everything they want to about you.

They can find out where do you shop, what do you buy? Who Do you owe money to? Are you behind on your, on your, on your rent, are you behind on your house payment? They do all of that. And they target. They have a matrix that targets. This is the right person, he hits this person, hits all of the matrix just right. It's like throwing a dart and hitting bullseye. So you're a bullseye.