Litigation

Milwaukee: Piling on the taxes

Posted on September 07, 2008
If you live in MIlwaukee, get ready for even higher taxes and fees. Everyone in the area knows that if you live in Milwaukee, you’re paying some of the highest taxes around. Property taxes are sky high, we have the highest sales tax of any county in the state, and our fees are obnoxious...

Sarah Palin church speech: The truth

Posted on September 06, 2008
It’s no secret that the Left is busy misrepresenting Sarah Palin and spreading vicious lies about her family. The latest is a video of Sarah Palin speaking at her church in Wassilla. Yes, her family’s church.The church at which she was baptized and her children were baptized...

Selling the Money Merge Acount from UFF

Posted on September 06, 2008
One of our readers posted this, and it’s brilliant. It is the simplest possible way to break down what United First Financial is selling with its Money Merge Account. Question for the consumer: Would you rather pay $0 to save $110,000, or would you like to pay $3500 to save $100,000? It gets to the truth of what [...

United First Financial: Sell them with deceit

Posted on September 05, 2008
I?ve been critical of the United First Financial Money Merge Account for a few months now. My critique is simple: The program is not worth $3,500. It?s worth less than $100. All the MMA does is direct you to use all available cash each month to pay down more of your mortgage...

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Sarah Palin, mayor of a small town

Posted on September 04, 2008
I’m just wondering why the media keeps referring to Sarah Palin’s experience as “mayor of a small town,” and not as governor of Alaska. Calling her a mayor diminishes her importance and experience.  She’s a governor. Get it right...

Soon-to-be former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleads guilty

Posted on September 04, 2008
From mlive.com news site: “I lied under oath in the case of Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope versus the city of Detroit, Case No. 03317557NZ, regarding information that was relevant to claims made by Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope. I did so with an intent to mislead the court and jury and to impede and obstruct [...

Cuppy?s Coffee & John Dozier: What Franchise Times Won?t Tell You

Posted on September 04, 2008
Guest post by Paul Steinberg How a Company and Its Lawyers Tried to Control and Stop Information They Didn’t Like on the Internet. An Eyewitness Account of What REALLY Happened. In the September issue of Franchise Times, there is a lengthy article by Julie Bennett: Attacks From The Blogosphere: What Cuppy’s learned the hard way...

Carnival of Fraud - September 2, 2008

Posted on September 03, 2008
Welcome to the September 2, 2008 edition of carnival of fraud. Airborne Settlement Increased to $30M on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity - Get your piece of a $30 million settlement if you bought Airborne after seeing advertisements that falsely claimed the product prevented colds...

Look for more media bias like this

Posted on September 03, 2008
Don’t worry… I don’t consider the people of Us Weekly to be journalists with any ethics or common decency. However, it is just sickening that they would blast the words “lies” and “scandal” on their cover, when nothing of the sort has been proven...

Giving up your rights with Google (updated)

Posted on September 03, 2008
Google has some really great products on the market, so when I heard about their new web browser Chrome, I was interested in trying it. Until I had a look at the terms and conditions I have to agree to before I can use it. One part says: 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights [...

What if the Sarah Palin pregnancy rumors are true? (I don?t believe they are.)

Posted on September 03, 2008
I don’t believe all the horrible rumors about Sarah Palin’s pregnancy and the birth of her son are true. I don’t believe that it was some grand cover-up, initiated to hide the fact that minor daughter Bristol was pregnant. All the left has on their side are some photos that indicate Sarah didn’t show much until [...

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should spend time in jail

Posted on September 03, 2008
The prosecution and defense in the “Kwame Kilpatrick matter” are still trying to negotiate a plea deal regarding the pending felony charges.  Prosecutor Kym Worthy has been standing firm on including jail time in any plea agreement. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing 8 felony charges related to his alleged purjury and obstruction of justice...

Vendor talks, Usana squawks

Posted on September 03, 2008
Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA) had their convention last week, and as predicted, the new “energy drink” REV3 was a big hit! Those fully indoctrinated into the “cult” of Usana believe it is the greatest thing ever! But not everyone at the convention was in the Usana fog...

Dozier Internet Law and internet connectivity provider censor protected speech

Posted on September 02, 2008
According to a press release, www.InventorEd.org and other members of the inventor community received cease and desist letters from Dozier Internet Law about nine months ago on behalf of invention promotion firm Inventor-Link, LLC. InventorEd proceeded to register about twenty domain names, and created www...

Review of Essentials of Corporate Fraud

Posted on September 01, 2008
A big thanks to Lee Distad for his kind review of Essentials of Corporate Fraud at his blog, Lee Distad’s Professional Opinion. Lee is a regular commenter here, and writes a great blog of his own on business issues. He’s always presenting something interesting...

Need ShopToEarn contract information

Posted on September 01, 2008
If you’ve signed up for ShopToEarn and have a contract from the company, I need your help! I am looking for the contract, any training materials produced by the company or your upline, and any communications from ShopToEarn that outline the rules and regulations of doing business with them...

The Sarah Palin pregnancy cover-up that wasn?t

Posted on August 31, 2008
I’m predicting that the dust-up concerning Sarah Palin’s youngest child, Trig, is all fabricated. Bloggers are going so far as to declare that he is definitely the child of her 16 year-old daughter, Bristol. But they don’t let silly little things like concrete evidence deter them...

Sarah Palin: I?m insulted

Posted on August 30, 2008
No, it’s not what you think. I’m not insulted that she chose to bring into this world the precious life that God was kind enough to give to her and her husband. No, an abortion (baby killing) wasn’t preferable. I’m not insulted that Sarah returned to work 3 days after having her baby...

Shop to Earn member says the company won?t refund his money

Posted on August 30, 2008
This isn’t the first reader commenting here about their ability to get a refund from ShopToEarn (aka ShopToEarth). If you sign up as a member, there is apparently a clause which offers refunds, but members seem to have a hard time actually getting their money back...

United First Financial?s new math (It?s still not worth $3,500.)

Posted on August 30, 2008
Guest post by Craig Hansen The fine folks at United First Financial (UFF) have come out with a new version of their Money Merge Account (MMA). It’s version 4, and it’s marketed as something that uses… factorial math! And promoters are saying the software does over 3 million calculations each time you use it to analyze [...

Mutual funds suck!

Posted on August 29, 2008
I hate mutual funds. Check this out: Out of almost 2,100 diversified retail U.S. stock mutual funds that are open to new investors, just 17 have positive returns for both the past 12 months and year-to-date, according to investment researcher Morningstar Inc...

Let the bashing of Sarah Palin begin!

Posted on August 29, 2008
This is priceless. CNN.com has a commentary by Paul Begala on John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate. He says in part: Palin a first-term governor of a state with more reindeer than people, will have to put on a few pounds just to be a lightweight...

Barack Obama?s experience (or lack thereof)

Posted on August 29, 2008
“You know, I am a believer in ? in knowing what you?re doing when you apply for a job. Uh, and I think that ? if I were seriously to consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the Senate...

Len Clements: Usana distributor with ?seasoned? associate number

Posted on August 27, 2008
Well, well, well. Leonard Clements, defender of Usana to his death, former “executive” of multi-level marketing company Zenza, failed business owner… is now a Usana distributor. But he’s not just any distributor. No, any distributor number would not do for Len...

United First Financial scam: You?re using the bank?s money to pay down your mortgage

Posted on August 27, 2008
Banking 101 - If you’re “using the bank’s money” it means you’ve borrowed it from the bank and you’re going to pay interest to “use” it. You don’t get to use it for free. The United First Financial Money Merge Account supposedly uses “the bank’s money” to help you pay off your mortgage faster...

Ufirst Money Merge Account: Resistance is futile

Posted on August 26, 2008
One of the most common forms of “training” offered to members of multi-level marketing companies (also known as direct sales, pyramid schemes, dual marketing, networking marketing, etc) is Overcoming Objections. Why is that such a key? Because all of the ones that I’ve seen have overpriced, underperforming products, and consumers are usually pretty quick to [...

Wasting more taxpayer money at MPS

Posted on August 25, 2008
I know you’re not surprised anymore. I’m not surprised. Milwaukee Public Schools officials spent district money to go to a conference in Philadelphia, and the employees didn’t even attend the conference. The problem is that when you’re wasting thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to do it, someone needs to be held accountable...

Failure rates in YTB and other MLMs

Posted on August 24, 2008
Noted MLM expert Robert FitzPatrick did a recent blog post on the YourTravelBiz.com lawsuit filed by the California Attorney General. He has a nice analysis of how and why YTB is nothing more than a pyramid. These multi-level marketing companies are almost always the same, they each just have a different “hook...

What Joe Biden says about his running mate

Posted on August 23, 2008
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Expert Fraud Investigation hits Amazon.com

Posted on August 23, 2008
My next book, Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide won’t be out until February 9, 2009, but it’s already on Amazon.com and available for pre-order. From the product description: A fraud investigation is aimed at examining evidence to determine if a fraud occurred, how it happened, who was involved, and how much money was lost...

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