The Manhattan District Attorney charged two New York City men with collecting more than $1.6 million on behalf of clients but failing to remit any of the money collected over the course of six years.
In a press release issued Friday, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said that 73 year-old Lionel Fuhrman and 43 year-old Steven King used more than a half-dozen different aliases and company names to target local businesses for collection contracts. After the businesses turned over their debtor records, they typically never heard from the defendants again, according to Morgenthau.
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