Suntasia May Be Allowed to Re-Open
http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=75472208
A U.S. magistrate is recommending that a Largo-based telemarketing company that was raided and shut down by federal officials in July be allowed to resume operations, albeit in slimmed-down form and under a strict court-ordered receivership.
Hey why not?
FTN Promotions Inc. and affiliated companies named as defendants, including Strategia Marketing, Suntasia Properties and six other companies, along with six company officers, were accused in a civil suit by the Federal Trade Commission of bilking thousands of customers nationwide out of “tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.”
They only stole money from people using deceptive and illegal telemarketing tactics.
No criminal charges have been filed.
Not yet anyway.
All the people in charge should be tossed in prison and have their assests taken.
It’s hard to believe that employees actually thought they were doing an honest days work when they were routinely asking people to “verify” their bank account number knowing full well they didn’t have it.
Nonetheless, Wilson wrote, “Telemarketing is not an illegal enterprise, and in this case it provides employment for a significant number of people. In addition, although the benefits of the defendants’ programs have been questioned, there are evidently satisfied customers who have been using the defendants’ products for some time.”
I’m sure Wal-Mart would love to hire a bunch of uneducated people to work for them. It may very well be a somewhat legitimate product they are selling but that does nothing to absolve them of training their employees to lie to consumers to get bank information out of them. That’s called fraud.
