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Deborah Amann

Americans To Spend $8.4 Billion On Halloween, Not Including Pumpkin Spice Foods

If you’ve noticed more Halloween decorations and candy on store shelves, there’s a good reason for that: Americans are expected to spend an average of $82.93 per person celebrating Halloween this year, or a total of $8.4 billion. [More]

Foreclosure Mill Apologizes For Dressing Up In Halloween Costumes That Mocked Foreclosed Homeowners

Foreclosure Mill Apologizes For Dressing Up In Halloween Costumes That Mocked Foreclosed Homeowners

When pictures of their employees dressed up as homeless foreclosed homeowners for last year’s Halloween were published in the New York Times, the high-volume foreclosure firm brushed the matter aside. They said that it was “another attempt by The New York Times to attack our firm and our work.” But now that it’s blown up in their faces, they’re falling all over themselves to apologize. [More]

Foreclosure Mill Employees Dressed Up In Costumes Mocking Foreclosed Homeowners

Foreclosure Mill Employees Dressed Up In Costumes Mocking Foreclosed Homeowners

What do the employees at a foreclosure mill – a law firm that aggressively pursues massive numbers of foreclosures, even against homeowners in the middle of working out a mortgage mod – dress up for Halloween? Well at one joint, last year they dressed up as homeless former homeowners and as the corpse of a lawyer who filed a class action lawsuit against them, according to photos sent to the New York Times. [More]

Shoplifter Forced To Dress As Bert, Carry "I Got Caught
Shoplifting At Halloween Express" Sign

Shoplifter Forced To Dress As Bert, Carry "I Got Caught Shoplifting At Halloween Express" Sign

Talk about a punishment that suits the crime. [More]

This Is What A Ghost Looks Like #2

This Is What A Ghost Looks Like #2

Further proof that corporate America is watching The Consumerist. Just saw this hit on our sitemeter referrals: