{"id":166026,"date":"2026-03-17T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:21:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-ny-ag-leads-lawsuit-accusing-onemain-financial-of-predatory-lending-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166026\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | NY AG leads lawsuit accusing OneMain Financial of predatory lending practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a lawsuit accusing OneMain Financial of a predatory lending scheme designed to trap consumers in debt.<\/p>\n<p>James says the company advertises itself as a lender that offers loans to those in need yet misleads borrowers with expensive hidden costs.<\/p>\n<p>OneMain Financial is one of the largest non-bank installment lenders in the country, with over 1,300 branches across 44 states.<\/p>\n<p>The suit claims tens of thousands of New York residents have been impacted by their predatory tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a lawsuit accusing OneMain Financial of a predatory lending scheme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[27994,98,100,99,3100,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-166026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-ag-letitia-james","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-lawsuit","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}