enzyte
Steve Warshak, founder of the company responsible for "Enzyte," has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $93,000, says the
AP. U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel also ordered the company, along with other defendants, to forfeit more than $500 million that it bilked from consumers.
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scams
Two fortune-tellers in Chicago are in being held in jail in lieu of $750,000 bail each for defrauding customers by
convincing them they were cursed, then selling them expensive curse-removal/protection services. Remember, folks, fortune tellers cannot curse you, see your future, turn you into a werewolf, or make you lose horrific amounts of weight. They can, however, take your money.
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harsh
Beloit, Wisconsin does not f*&% around when it comes to library books. When your books aren't returned to the Beloit Public Library, three overdue notices are mailed out and then you may be issued a citation that could possibly include a court date.
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crime
It pleases us when spammers go to prison. Join us in bidding fond farewell to Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, Calif., and James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, Ariz.. These two gentlemen have been convicted of "running an international pornographic spam ring that took in more than $1 million."
Kilbride and Schaffer began spamming in 2003, sending out millions of spam messages advertising hard-core porn sites. The messages contained graphic images that were visible to whoever opened the e-mail. Later in 2003, the two men began using servers in Amsterdam to make messages they were sending from Phoenix appear to be coming from outside the United States.
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copy crime
Don't use your digital camera in a theater to record 20 seconds of the movie Transformers (even if it's just to show your little brother) or you could face 1 year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
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