Former OSI Exec Indicted by NJ Attorney General in Long-Running Overbilling Case

The attorney general in New Jersey announced last week that a former sales director at Outsourcing Solutions, Inc. had been charged with various crimes stemming from her role in overbilling the state for collection services and subsequently covering up the actions and undermining a government investigation.

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccion said in a press release that Sandra Bielanski was being charged with theft by deception, misconduct by a corporate official, and five counts of making false contract payment claims. The office noted that all charges represented second-degree crimes.

The indictments are the latest in a series of actions resulting from a lengthy investigation of OSI billing practices between January 1999 and May 2005. The state claims that OSI overbilled for collection services by more than $1 million in the period. In addition, OSI employees provided gifts to New Jersey officials to ensure the contract would continue.

In February 2007, OSI agreed to pay the state nearly $2 million to resolve issues of overbilling and provision of illegal gifts to state employees (“OSI to Pay Nearly $2 million to Settle New Jersey Collection Contract Dispute,” Feb. 7, 2007). But legal action against individual OSI employees and state officials has been ongoing.

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Using a Collection Agency- Collection on Bad Accounts

Using a Collection Agency- Collection on Bad Accounts

1. Which collection agency is best for your services?
2. Why should you choose collection agency?
3. Collection agency really helps you!
4. It’s better to have collection agency rather that losing more and more money?
5. Does Collection agency work on your suggestions or not?

When you’re in the process of hiring a debt collection agency then you collect your severely over due accounts. The majority of cases will be made through streamline actions which company put on your debt recovery project. If the debt collection is organized in strategic manner then definitely you will be benefited by so-called “recovery.”

Essentially this process is a part of negotiation deal with the collectors and debtors. Only thing the debt collection company will remind the debtors about the outstanding debt and seek to open a dialogue with the debtor. After an open dialogue, the debtor has to respond meaningfully to collection agency/company.

If you have gone to in a streamline strong communication aptitude then definitely you will get positive results. Either way, paying the debt in full, or agreeing and sticking to a schedule payment in installments. Whatever the reason and strategy did the collection agencies adopt – they have scored a success through…

A debtor many refuse to pay and the collection agency may have to submit a poor credit report to the major credit agencies. More rarely, if debtor don’t response then regrettably the case is filed to court for judgment recovery services.

How a collection agency works?

Collection agencies work on fair debt collection framework and do their best in their collecting debts. They respect the framework and ensure the debtor properly informed of the fact in case of any rights to dispute a debt and their rights to privacy. Even though there are so many restrictions on collection agencies but they use middle path to communicate the debtor with fair debt recovery services.

“The nutshell is they will adhere to the legal framework of fair debt collection.”

Collection agency services assist you through wide spectrum of recovery solutions that suits your budget and individual needs.

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