Citibank
Default Judgment Obtained Without Summons and Bank Account Frozen

I had a Citibank credit card. It went into collections. Citibank hired a Long Island, NY law firm called Rubin and Rothman (they are unprofessional, low level, debt collecting "attorneys) to collect on their behalf.

They sued me in Kings County Civil Court. However, they failed to serve me with a summons, which is illegal and violates civil procedure regulations. Of course they won by default, because I did not respond to the summons (I could not respond to a summons that I didn't receive). As a result, they obtained a default judgement and froze my bank account. That's OK because I only had $30 in there.

Bear in mind that the service processor for Citibank's attorneys had to submit a sworn affidavit to the court that they did indeed serve me. In effect, this makes Citibank, Rubin and Rothman and their service processors criminals, because they have committed perjury, in writing, under oath!

If they continue to pursue this illegal judgement I will fight back. I will reopen the case by filing an "order to show cause" to dismiss the case on the grounds that I was not served properly and on the grounds that I was not served. Then I will attend the "traverse hearing" and I will see this process server in person and he will lie under oath to the judge's face that he did indeed serve me.

This my friends, is how lowlife companies like Citibank and their lowlife "attorneys" do business. Therefore, feel free to consider them criminals.

Company: Citibank
Country: USA
Site: citibank.com

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