I know a lot of you have been sending me a lot of love abt my tumor/disease diagnosis & I’ve been very vague. This is very hard to post for me but here’s a little more about my diagnosis & what’s to come. Thank you all for being so kind to me 💕 & pls just unfollow me if you feel inclined to send me hate. I really can’t handle any rn. Thank you. & honestly I would appreciate any dollar.. I know times are hard 💖
For those not into novels, I'll spare you the details from the start. December 2018 I was diagnosed with a very rare disease that is caused
I know a lot of you have been sending me a lot of love abt my tumor/disease diagnosis & I’ve been very vague. This is very hard to post for me but here’s a little more about my diagnosis & what’s to come. Thank you all for being so kind to me 💕 & pls just unfollow me if you feel inclined to send me hate. I really can’t handle any rn. Thank you. & honestly I would appreciate any dollar.. I know times are hard 💖
For those not into novels, I'll spare you the details from the start. December 2018 I was diagnosed with a very rare disease that is caused
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As treasury secretary, Tim Geithner criticized predatory lenders. Now the private equity firm he leads runs a company that mails high-rate loans to risky customers.
The check arrived out of the blue, issued in his name for $1,200, a mailing from a consumer finance company. Stephen Huggins eyed it carefully.
A loan, it said. Smaller type said the interest rate would be 33 percent.
Way too high, Huggins thought. He put it aside.
A week later, though, his 2005 Chevy pickup was in the shop, and he didn’t have enough to pay for the repairs. He needed the truck to get to work, to get the kids to school. So Huggins, a 56-year-old heavy equipment operator in Nashville, fished the check out that day in April 2017 and cashed it.
Within a year, the company, Mariner Finance, sued Huggins for $3,221.27. That included the original $1,200, plus an additional $800 a company representative later persuaded him to take, plus hundreds of dollars in processing fees, insurance and other items, plus interest. It didn’t matter that he’d made a few payments already.
“It would have been cheaper for me to go out and borrow money from the mob,” Huggins said before his first court hearing in April.
Most galling, Huggins couldn’t afford a lawyer but was obliged by the loan contract to pay for the company’s. That had added 20 percent — $536.88 — to the size of his bill.
“They really got me,” Huggins said.
Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a fertile niche in the U.S. economy. The company enables some of the nation’s wealthiest investors and investment funds to make money offering high-interest loans to cash-strapped Americans.
Mariner Finance is owned and managed by a $11.2 billion private equity fund controlled by Warburg Pincus, a storied New York firm. The president of Warburg Pincus is Timothy F. Geithner, who, as treasury secretary in the Obama administration, condemned predatory lenders.
This is beyond wrong. Such a beautiful girl… She deserved so much more than this. We need justice. People who are white are what we need. There are too many whites not giving a shit and we need white people who see that this is wrong. We need something to change. I’m ashamed to be white sometimes. This is not ok.
