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"… vantage of the meek, the weak and the ignorant,” said Robert J. Genis, a personal-injury lawyer in the Bronx who said that he had warned clients against borrowing. “It …"

"… unresolved. Credit: Gary Tramontina, The New York TimesWhen David Kert, a personal-injury lawyer, took a job in 2007 screening applicants for the lender Whitehaven Plainti …"