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| 11:30AM 8/30/2011
Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants.
| 10:00AM 4/25/2011
Nearly eight months after the state of California hit her with a $34 million lawsuit alleging that she defrauded thousands of consumers who sought her tax advice, Roni Deutch, the so-called "Tax Lady," has landed back in court. This time, according to the Sacramento Bee, Deutch's assets have been...
| 4:00PM 10/12/2010
US Loan Auditors and My US Legal Services billed themselves as companies that can help homeowners who are victims of predatory lending, but they're now being sued for defrauding the same people they claimed to want to help.
In a $60 million lawsuit filed by California's attorney general, the two...
| 12:01PM 10/01/2010
Some people thought they were helping burn victims when they gave money to the Association for Firefighters and Paramedics. Instead, the charity was spending those contributions on out-of-town trips and lavish resorts, the California Attorney General said.
The state announced a settlement this...
| 5:00PM 8/23/2010
California Attorney General Edmund Brown is suing TV's Tax Lady Roni Deutch for $34 million, claiming she duped thousands of consumers who sought her tax advice.
"Tax Lady Roni Deutch is engaged in a heartless scheme that swindled people with tax problems," Brown said in a statement. "She promises...
| 1:15PM 8/02/2010
A father and son have been charged in California with stealing more than $1.6 million in unclaimed funds from consumers who hired them to help collect money.
Using forged documents and fictitious mailing addresses, the pair managed to steal from consumers they had reached out to and offered to...
| 12:30PM 7/15/2010
If a product claims to cure diabetes and heart disease, it probably doesn't. But according to California's Attorney General, representatives of Rena Ware International, Inc. selling high-end cookware were making such claims and pressuring mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Los Angeles area...