Oct 8, 2009
Two bogus credit repair companies and their principals settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely claimed they could clean up consumers’ credit reports and collected up-front fees for their services, in violation of federal law. In one case, the FTC alleged that the defendants marketed their services via Web sites and real estate investment seminars and falsely claimed that their special relationships with creditors, collection companies, public records providers and credit bureaus enabled them to remove derogatory information from consumers’ credit ... Read More
Oct 1, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY — Children as young as 13 were manning phone banks for a company that does market research and political surveys from call centers in seven states, federal investigators said Tuesday.
Children that young can't legally be employed except on farms.
The U.S. Department of Labor fined Orem, Utah-based Western Wats for hiring three 13-year-olds, and for working an additional 1,479 children more than three hours on a school day or more than eight hours on a weekend day, among other violations. ... Read More
Sep 25, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO -Cheryl Hernandez Camus was sentenced to 63 months in prison, and ordered to pay $1,457,255 in restitution for mail and wire fraud in connection with a real estate investment scheme, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
Ms. Camus pleaded guilty on December 12, 2008 to five counts of wire fraud and two counts of mail fraud. In pleading guilty, Camus admitted to devising a short-term money lending investment scheme in which she promised fixed returns and the return of the ... Read More
Sep 23, 2009
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski didn’t mention Net Neutrality when he went before a House subcommittee on Thursday (Sept. 17). The subject will be front and center on Monday (Sept. 21) when Genachowski is expected to give a speech announcing the Commission will vote in October to start a Net Neutrality rulemaking.
Combined with the announcement at the hearing from House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) that he supports Net Neutrality and will support the Net Neutrality legislation proposed by ... Read More
Sep 21, 2009
In today’s world, the most effective way for the FBI to serve the American people is to be intelligence-led and threat-driven. That means not only investigating violations of federal law after the fact, but also seeing potential threats and crimes on the horizon and being positioned to prevent them.
It’s for that reason that the FBI and the Department of Justice are working now—in concert with our federal, state, and local partners, including the Inspector General community—to get out in front of possible ... Read More
