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The Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kansas, has paid out nearly $400,000 for three discrimination lawsuits. But Marlon Kerr, who received $275,000 in a December 2022 settlement, said it ...
Utility companies are trying to stop these types of scams from taking place. A coalition of utilities (including electric, natural gas, and water) across North America started a public campaign called "Utilities United Against Scams" (UUAS) in 2016. [2] More than 100 utility companies and other groups are part of the coalition. [1]
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a longtime public works manager.. Kenneth Mack, 63 ...
The bar bill scam is common in Europe, [59] especially Budapest, Hungary. [60] [61] [62] A mark, usually a man who is a tourist, is approached by an attractive woman or pair of women who start a conversation, such as asking for directions (pretending to have mistaken the tourist for a local). After a bit of conversation, the women will suggest ...
Cramming is a form of fraud in which small charges are added to a bill by a third party without the subscriber's consent, approval, authorization or disclosure. These may be disguised as a tax, some other common fee or a bogus service, and may be several dollars or even just a few cents.
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Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
A study published in 2021 in the journal Preventive Medicine found that “in addition to premium costs meant to cover preventive care, Americans with employer-sponsored insurance were still ...