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FTC launches crackdown on work-at-home scams
US consumer rights organisation the Federal Trade Commission has joined up with law enforcement agencies to launch a crackdown on bogus job opportunity scams.
Project FAL$E HOPE$ encompasses 100 law enforcement actions against various bogus work-at-home scams. The bogus business opportunities targeted include vending machines, ATM and Internet terminals, display racks for coffee and ink cartridges, Internet-based businesses, envelope stuffing, medical billing, and others.
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Centerville Company Targeted in Home-Based Business Lawsuit
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Federal prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit against a Centerville, Utah, company that promised a home-based business opportunity would bring investors immediate cash flow and incredible returns. But the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice say the promise was bogus and lacked a basis for the claim. Both agencies are parties in the lawsuit filed Dec. 6 in U.S. District Court.
The action is among 100 included in "Project False Hopes," an 11-state federal crackdown on work-at-home scams. Other cases involves home-based business opportunities for vending machines, ATM and Internet terminals, envelope stuffing and medical billing.
The Utah lawsuit alleges Universal Advertising Inc., failed to provide complete and accurate financial information to potentials buyers and failed to disclose the number of prior investors who had achieved the profit levels claimed in promotional material.
Heat In The Kitchen
Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are often found in fried foods, pie crusts, doughnuts and salad dressings, but Connecticut restaurants may soon be forced to cook without them. State Sens. John McKinney, R-Fairfield, and Andrew Roraback. R-Goshen, have proposed a bill that would effectively ban the use of these spreads and oils in Connecticut restaurants by 2008.
Although small amounts of trans fat occur naturally in some meat and dairy foods, the most common form of the fat is formed when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, creating a relatively inexpensive ingredient and frying agent.
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Gloria Estefan Opens Home For Fundraising Gala
Entertainer Gloria Estefan has reached the top of the music charts and made a whole lot of money in the process and now she continues to spread that wealth to worthy causes with her first-ever Gloria Estefan Foundation Gala.Gloria and her husband, Emilio established the Foundation more than ten years ago to further their commitment towards helping others. She is quickly becoming one of South Floridas top philanthropists.Tuesday, Gloria Estefan announced plans to open her ultra-exclusive Star Island home on February 9th for a gala and benefit concert being presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida called En Casa Con Gloria: An Intimate EveningAn Unforgettable Performance. Its the first time the Estefans have opened their home for a fundraising event for the Foundation."Up until now, the Estefans have personally funded the Foundation through songwriter royalties, concert proceeds, merchandise sales and various other channels of personal resources.
Not a service like any other
It is a year to the day since the publication of Paying the Price, the Home Office review into prostitution - but women selling sex, and the organisations providing support for them, are still waiting for action from the government. One of the recommendations that came out of the review was the setting up of projects dedicated to assisting women out of the sex trade. Another was to tackle the demand - the punters, who keep prostitution alive. While nothing was being done, five women working in street prostitution were murdered in Ipswich. Supporters of legalisation argue that women would be safer working in saunas and massage parlours. They also want tolerance zones, where women could work without fear of arrest. This would mean, they say, that the women would take fewer risks. But there isn't a scrap of credible evidence that women would be safer if we made the state a pimp, which is what legalisation would mean.
