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"GALVESTON &Atilde;&macr;&Acirc;&iquest;&Acirc;&frac12; Alvin resident Michael Price claims Asset Management Professionals LLC placed harassing calls to his cell phone and his place of work, recent court documents say.<br /><br />A federal lawsuit filed June 13 in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas alleges Asset engaged in abusive tactics when contacting Price about his account with Providian Bank.<br /><br />The suit says the defendant called Price on his cell phone twice, adding an individual collector failed to indentify the name of the debt collection agency when speaking with him.<br /><br />Price says the employee also failed to inform him that the communication was an attempt to collect a debt and everything the plaintiff said would be used for that purpose.<br /><br />He notified the defendant that the account in question was discharged in bankruptcy and that the statute of limitations ran out on it, the suit says.<br /><br />The original petition shows Asset disagreed with the complainant and threatened to put a lien on his property, freeze his bank account and seize his vehicle if he failed to pay the debt.<br /><br />The defendant then proceeded to call Price's workplace, leaving voicemails regarding the dispute which were apparently heard by the plaintiff's colleagues, the suit says.<br /><br />Price pleaded with Asset to stop calling him at work to no avail.<br /><br />According to the suit, he suffered from humiliation, anger, anxiety, emotional distress, fear, frustration and embarrassment.<br /><br />Consequently, the plaintiff seeks at least $1,000 in damages and a jury trial.<br /><br />He is represented by attorney Diana P. Larson of Houston.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt.<br /><br /><em>Case No. 3:11-cv-260</em><br /> <br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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