Jul 9, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO – The general manger of the Northern California operations of Brusco Tug & Barge Incorporated was indicted Tuesday for violating the Clean Water Act, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
Mark Guinn is charged with four separate incidents of dumping barges that contained dredged materials into waters surrounding Winter Island. According to the indictment, starting in 2003 and continuing into 2007, Guinn discharged and caused other Brusco employees to discharge dredged materials without a permit directly into waters of the ... Read More
Jul 9, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, today filed a complaint seeking injunctive relief against Peregrina Cheese Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., and two of its officers: Javier Peregrina and Isabel Peregrina.
The company prepares and processes a variety of cheeses, sour cream, flan and gelatin products and distributes them to specialty grocery stores in northeastern Pennsylvania and in the New York City area.
The government’s complaint, filed today in the Eastern District of New York, alleges ... Read More
Jun 19, 2009
We periodically read other consumer complaint sites to see what active trends in business/consumer relations lie. And every so often there is an articles that will not fit the demographics of a site. On Monday June 15th 2009 major credit card companies announced a rise in consumer card defaults, and some consumer sites have picked up on this information. The rise across the board is roughly 1 percent. Although that seems small in contrast, to big business that means serious a serious ... Read More
Jun 18, 2009
A federal court has ordered a payment processor that debited consumers’ bank accounts without their authorization to pay $1,779,000 in consumer redress and to end the illegal practice. Payment processors serve as middlemen between merchants and banks or credit card companies. In 2006, the Federal Trade Commission charged the defendants with unfairly debiting thousands of consumer accounts for a merchant’s nonexistent “discount pharmacy cards,” despite indications that the pharmacy card operation was bogus.
According to the FTC’s complaint, the payment processor did not ... Read More
Jun 6, 2009
How familiar is this, you take your car in for a simple service, next thing you know the service writer tells you "hey this car shouldn't be on the road, it's unsafe, your brakes are shot etc. etc." They want to bilk you for hundreds if not thousands of dollars in repair costs. What do you do next? Well for some people mechanical knowledge comes easy, for others oh say like your grandma, have no clue. Someone from the inside the industry ... Read More
