Mar 12, 2010
A nationwide debt collector has agreed to pay a civil fine of more than $1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by inaccurately reporting credit information and pressing consumers to pay debts they often did not owe.
According to the FTC’s complaint, the company and two of its officers illegally tried to collect invalid debts and reported them to the credit reporting agencies without noting that consumers disputed them. In addition, even after receiving information from consumers ... Read More
Feb 27, 2010
That's right Comcast is now teaming up with Best Buy to coerce the consumer into purchasing the overpriced packages of xfinity, or whatever else Comcast can do to take your money. Kind of like an ambulance chaser, and the car wreck.
We recently were discussing Comcast issues with a online media mogul. And in general talk, he informed us that he was being bothered by a Comcast employee at a Best Buy store in Portland, OR. The Best Buy employee was asked why ... Read More
Feb 21, 2010
Unexpected rate hikes. Over-limit fees. Double-cycle billing. Those are just a few of the credit-card practices that have trapped millions of consumers into a life of constant worry over mounting debt. In less than a week, these practices will be history.
On Feb. 22, 2010, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD Act) takes effect. It puts forth new rules for credit-card issuers that are arguably the most consumer-protective in the history of credit cards.
If you're the type of person who ... Read More
Feb 18, 2010
The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files trading on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says.
Wednesday’s 3-0 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Nevada man convicted of possessing child pornography as part of an FBI investigation. Defendant Charles Borowy claimed the Fourth Amendment required court authorization to search and seize his LimeWire files in 2007.
The San Francisco-based appeals court, however, cited the nation’s legal standard, reiterating that warrants are required if a ... Read More
Jan 23, 2010
United States Attorney David C. Weiss, and Defense Criminal Investigative Service
(DCIS) Special Agent in Charge Edward T. Bradley, announced today that Ceramic Protection
Corporation of America (CPC America) had entered into a deferred prosecution agreement
with the United States Attorney’s Office.
CPC America is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business located at
101 Lake Drive, Newark, Delaware 19702. According to criminal Information filed in
conjunction with the deferred prosecution agreement, on March 10, 2005, CPC America entered
into a supply agreement with ArmorWorks, Incorporated (“ArmorWorks”) ... Read More
