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SLIDESHOW: The house that payday lending built

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Scott Tucker at Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in Le Mans, France on June 11, 2011. Tucker bankrolls his auto racing with profits from his payday lending businesses.

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Scott Tucker (second driver from left) at the awards ceremony at the American Le Mans Series in Long Beach, Calif., on April 16, 2011.

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Scott Tucker, right, underwrites his Level 5 Motorsports passion with profits from his payday lending businesses. Here, he is shown with drivers Luis Diaz, left, and Christophe Bouchut, center, celebrating with high-quality tequila at the American Le Mans Series' Road Race Showcase in Elkhart Lake, Wis., on Aug. 20, 2011.

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From left: Level 5 Motorsports drivers Christophe Bouchut, Scott Tucker and Luis Diaz celebrate with other winners at the American Le Mans Series' Road Race Showcase in Elkhart Lake, Wis., on August 20, 2011.

 

 

 

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Scott Tucker's home in Aspen, Colo., recently purchased for $8 million.

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Scott Tucker's home in the suburbs of Kansas City. He also has a $8 million vacation home in Colorado. 

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A Learjet 60, like Scott Tucker's, that retails for $13 million.

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The exterior of Miami Nation Enterprises, which has an online payday lending business that has sovereign status beyond the reach of state regulators. 

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Ramon Zayas took out a $250 loan from online lender 500FastCash to make his bills during a bout with prostrate cancer, he said in an interview with CBS News. His loan came with an annual interest rate of 476.09%.

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