Detention Bond Firm Gets Rough Hearing Over Biden-Era CFPB Case

A US appeals court appeared skeptical of an immigration bond provider’s claim that a Virginia federal judge improperly hit the company with an $811 million penalty and nearly 80 injunctive requirements for scamming families seeking to get loved ones out of detention.

At a hearing Friday before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Nexus Services Inc. said it had admitted to the claims brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the states of Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia and wasn’t attempting to overturn a default judgment order in the case.

Instead, the company argued that the ...