Tag: Texas scams
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KABOOM! Texas Jury Hits ‘Debt-Repair’ MLM Firm With $13.8 Million Verdict; Panel Even Says Defendants Must Pay State’s Cost If They Appeal
BULLETIN: UPDATED 10:03 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A jury in Harris County, Texas, has thrown down the gauntlet to hucksters targeting financially strapped consumers by finding more than 1,400 violations and returning a spectacular verdict of $13.8 million against a purported “debt repair” firm that had a multilevel-marketing component. The jury, which found that the accused…