Barry S Sussman
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Barry S. Sussman, born 1960 in Englewood , NJ . Sussman first gained notoriety when he penned an alleged how-to crime book, “I Scam, You Scam,” while serving a federal sentence for bank and mail fraud.
Upon his release in 1990, Sussman was accepted to the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City . While attending school he developed a novel recovery program for collecting returned checks. He graduated law school in 1996 and soon thereafter passed the New York and New Jersey Bar exams.
Sussman’s prior criminal record was found to be a disqualifying factor by the Bar. Meanwhile, his business, National Check Control, had become the largest buyer of returned checks in the United States.
As Clinton’s Impeachment proceedings began to unfold, Sussman formed the Committee for Responsible Prosecution. Sussman’s area of focus in law school was federal prosecutorial misconduct and it was with this background that he began to make frequent appearances on various legal-format news programs as an unyielding critic of the federal prosecutorial process.
In May of 2003, federal agents stormed National Check Control’s New Jersey office and effectively shut the business. Many saw this as direct retaliation for Sussman’s outspoken criticism of federal prosecutors and the Department of Justice.
In 2006, Sussman launched www.dissentisterror.com. The site is intended to be an on-line resource for information involving exposing fraud and hypocrisy within the federal criminal justice system.
Also in 2006, the Federal Trade Commission fined Sussman’s company, National Check Control, a record sum of $10.2 million dollars. Additionally, the state of New Jersey fined the business approximately $6 million. These are believed to be the largest penalties ever imposed on a collection agency in United States . Nevertheless, Sussman continues to maintain that National Check Control was not a collection agency in that it did not recover “debts.” The legal argument is that bad checks are not extensions of credit, thus recovery efforts flowing from their issuance are not debt collection.
Despite threats to bring serious federal charges, Sussman remains uncharged as of this time and the case remains solely a civil matter.
