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Hooks V. Portfolio Recovery Associates

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📁 4:15-cv-00133 📅 2015-02-25 📍 TX
✓Court archive — 8 related cases
✓Arrests — clear
✓OFAC sanctions — clear
✓FBI Most Wanted — clear
✓Healthcare exclusions — clear
✓TDCJ inmates — clear
•13.1M records searched across federal + state sources
Case Synopsis
This is the public record summary for a civil court case 4:15-cv-00133, indexed by Open Public Records on February 25, 2015. The case is filed by Hooks against Portfolio Recovery Associates (Texas). Below you'll find enrichment from multiple authoritative public sources including federal sanctions and wanted lists, the Texas TDCJ prisoner registry (135k records), the HHS-OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities, named-arrest feeds, and 8 related cases in our 12.9-million-record archive.
Filing Details
[Complaint] (1)
Internal reference ID
Deep Web Search · Portfolio Recovery Associates 3 MATCHED
Possible news and web mentions for Portfolio Recovery Associates. We surfaced 3 name-based results. Results are matched by name only and may refer to a different person, business, or agency — verify with the original source. Deep-search links across 11 platforms are listed below.
📰 Press Coverage · 3 matching articles
Did Portfolio Recovery Associates try to collect a debt from you? Company agrees to $4M settlement with Mass. AG for ‘deceptive and unfair’ practices
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:56:00 GMT Possible match · full name match all-tokens match legal-context
George Cooley says the debt collectors have been after him for years, despite the fact that he lives on Social Security disability and just $1,300 a month. Cooley, 66, has been making debt payments of ...…
CFPB orders Portfolio Recovery Associates to pay $24 million
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:56:00 GMT Possible match · full name match all-tokens match legal-context
"CFPB orders are not suggestions, and companies cannot ignore them simply because they are large or dominant in the market," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said after announcing a $24 million settlement ...…
Portfolio Recovery Associates Faces Class-Action Lawsuit
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:01:00 GMT Possible match · full name match all-tokens match legal-context
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday accusing debt-buying giant Portfolio Recovery Associates of abusing U.S. courts by filing collection lawsuits against tens of thousands of consumers ...…
Updated weekly · 11 public search platforms linked
Arrest & Booking Records NO FEED
Public Arrest & Booking Database ?We mine 6+ open-data arrest feeds where the publishing agency includes full names: Dallas PD, King County WA Jail, Providence RI Police, Montgomery County MD, Norfolk VA PD, plus the San Diego County Sheriff. City PDs (LAPD, NYPD, Chicago, Cincinnati) redact names and we mark those as anonymized. 0 Matches
We checked 6 public arrest databases. We looked for Portfolio Associates in the 6 police departments that publish full arrest names: Dallas PD, King County WA, Providence RI, Montgomery MD, Norfolk VA, and San Diego Sheriff. No match.
About coverage: Most Texas police departments only publish arrest counts, not names. We're adding more named feeds as they become available.
🏛 Texas State Prisoners (TDCJ) 0 FOUND
TDCJ Inmate Search · ~135,000 Current Texas State Prisoners ?Live scrape of Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov. Returns every currently incarcerated Texas state prisoner. Note: shows current population only — released inmates disappear from this source. 0 Inmates
We checked Texas's live state prison roster. We searched the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate database for PORTFOLIO ASSOCIATES.
Result: No match. No one by that name is currently in TDCJ custody.
✅ No matching inmate currently in TDCJ custody for "Portfolio Recovery Associates".
Compliance · Sanctions Check name-based match · not verified CLEAR
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Check ?The U.S. Treasury keeps a list of people and companies that Americans can't legally do business with, including terrorists, drug traffickers, and sanctioned foreign officials. It's called the SDN list. We refresh our copy every day from OpenSanctions.org. It currently has 19,700 entries. ✓ Clear
We checked the U.S. Treasury's sanctions list (19,700 entries). We checked everyone named as a party in this case, 1 name in total (Portfolio Recovery Associates), against the list.
No match. None of the parties in this case appear on the U.S. sanctions list.
FBI Most Wanted Check CLEAR
FBI Most Wanted ?The FBI publishes a current list of about 990 wanted fugitives, covering the Ten Most Wanted, terrorism, cybercrime, and kidnapping. Pulled live from the FBI's public Wanted API. ✓ Not Listed
We checked the FBI's live most-wanted list. The FBI publishes a current list of about 990 wanted fugitives, covering the Ten Most Wanted, terrorism, cybercrime, and kidnapping. We checked it in real time for Portfolio Recovery Associates.
No match. Portfolio Recovery Associates is not on the FBI's wanted list.
Healthcare Program Exclusions (HHS-OIG) CLEAR
HHS-OIG LEIE · Federally Excluded Healthcare Providers ?The Office of Inspector General publishes the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities — healthcare providers banned from Medicare, Medicaid, and all federal health programs for fraud, patient abuse, license loss, or controlled-substance violations. We loaded 83,256 currently excluded providers. Source: oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/ ✓ Clear
We checked the federal healthcare exclusion list (83,300 providers). The Office of Inspector General publishes a list of people and companies banned from Medicare, Medicaid, and every federal health program. Reasons include Medicare or Medicaid fraud, patient abuse, license revocation, and controlled-substance violations. We checked it for Portfolio Recovery Associates.
No match. Portfolio Recovery Associates is not on the federal healthcare exclusion list.
People sharing the surname Associates ?We searched our archive of 12.9 million U.S. court cases for anyone else with the same last name. Most recent cases shown first. Same surname doesn't mean same person, it could be a relative or someone unrelated who happens to share the name. 8 Found
We checked our archive of 12.9 million court cases. We looked through Texas court records for anyone else named Associates. We found 8 other cases with that surname, listed below so you can compare them and see whether it's the same person, a relative, or unrelated.
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2026-05-29 17:34 EDT · Edge cache 30 days
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Total volume
On this page we checked Portfolio Recovery Associates against: Open Public Records archive (12.9 million court cases), U.S. Treasury sanctions list (19,700 entries), FBI most-wanted list (990 fugitives), Federal healthcare exclusion list (83,300 providers), 6 public arrest databases, and Texas state prison roster (about 135,000 inmates). In total, about 13.14 million records across 6 sources for this one case.

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