The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has intervened in an ongoing case involving a foreclosure by American Home Mortgage Servicing, the only mortgage-related probe out of three “non-public” investigations of debt collection practices to determine whether they violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act or the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The CFPB filed an amicus brief in Paul and Angela Birster vs. American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. (11th Circuit), the agency revealed in its first FDCPA annual report to Congress, which it ...