BOULDER — Three years ago, Michelle Tucker was the director of Resolve Credit Counseling, a for-profit debt settlement business that was the subject of a Federal Trade Commission complaint of deceptive business practices.
The company reached a settlement in which it agreed to pay $350,000 in fines (Tucker says they were “remedial fees”) but didn’t admit any fault. A federal judge excoriated the FTC for taking a “nuclear” approach to enforcement.
Now, the city of Boulder thinks that the previous complaint about Resolve Credit Counseling should disqualify Tucker from running a medical marijuana business.
Tucker bristles at the city’s description of her past acts. The FTC complaint was a civil matter, not a criminal charge, and she wasn’t found guilty of anything.
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