East Line Lending Watchlist
Menominee Indian Tribe (East Line Lending LLC)
A Menominee brand — East Line Lending LLC, sued alongside the Wolf River Development Company and tribal lending officer Crystal Chapman-Chevalier (Hall v. East Line Lending, S.D. Ind. 1:24-cv-01385; Arena 1:22-cv-01551, which also names financier New Platform Fund LLC). Its domain is now dead: eastlinelending.com redirects to a photo-editing site (photofuneditor.com), a brand whose search traffic outlived it. Its rates and loan amounts were never published anywhere we could verify.
East Line Lending at a glance
- Owning tribe
- Menominee Indian Tribe (East Line Lending LLC)
- Lending since
- Unknown
- Loan amounts
- Never disclosed
- APR range
- Never disclosed
- Product
- installment
- Website
- eastlinelending.com
Skip East Line Lending if…
- You need a lender we can confirm is still making loans — its status is unconfirmed.
- You want to know the price before you apply — we found no rate it has ever published.
Because East Line Lending never published one that we could verify, and we do not print figures we cannot source. Comparison sites quote APRs for brands like this routinely; we went looking for where those numbers come from and could not find an origin for them.
What we can show you is the record: who the courts and regulators say is behind the brand, and whether any of it cancels your balance. If you hold an agreement from this lender, the TILA box inside it is the only rate that means anything — and it is worth keeping.
Court record and your East Line Lending loan
No case has cancelled East Line Lending debt. Whether you still owe comes down to your state: in 9 states a loan above the rate cap is void, whatever the contract says — check yours.
- The MenomineeS.D. Ind. and others — several pending · 2025 — One tribal officer, five storefronts, outside money
If a collector is calling, read what to do before you pay anything.
Frequently asked questions
Is East Line Lending a tribal loan?
Yes. East Line Lending is a tribal lending brand owned by the Menominee Indian Tribe in WI. That means it lends under tribal law and claims sovereign immunity from your state's interest-rate cap, rather than holding a state lending license. It has never published an APR we could source, which is itself a warning sign. Whether the loan is enforceable where you live depends on your state.
Is an East Line Lending loan legal in my state?
It depends entirely on your state. High-cost tribal loans are effectively banned in nine states, where a loan above the rate cap can be void and not legally collectible, and restricted in many more. East Line Lending claims tribal sovereign immunity from those caps — an argument courts have accepted in some cases and rejected in others. Check your state before you borrow, and especially before you pay a collector.
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