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Magazine Sales Company Banned From State May 9, 2007 Trinity Public Relations Door-To-Door Traveling Magazine Company Based in Charlotte, North Carolina Magazine Sales Company Owners James A. Davis and Lourdes J. Davis Permanently Barred From Owning Or Operating Any Business In North Carolina That Sells Magazines. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper Press Releases: Read NC AG Press Release 05/03/07 - PDF Read NC AG Press Release 09/27/06 - PDF |
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Magazine Sales Company/Collection Agency Banned In West Virginia By Attorney General Darrell McGraw The following companies and their owner (CATHERINE M KEY) have been banned in West Virginia United Subscription Agency (a magazine sales company owned by Catherine M. Key) (Website: mytraveljob.com) Check Game Solutions (a collection agency owned by Catherine M. Key) and CATHERINE M KEY Banned from doing business in West Virginia CATHERINE M KEY and Check Game Solutions are listed as Supporting Members of the National Field Selling Association NFSA - Website: (www.nfsa.com) - NFSA NFSA Supporting Member Page: NFSA Supporting Member Page Catherine M. Key Check Game Solutions, Inc. 1850 43rd Avenue Suite C-10 Vero Beach FL, 32960 (800) 886-9798 Read The West Virginia AG Lawsuit For additional information Click Here |
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Civil Lawsuit Filed Against World Wide Circulation, Inc. 02/21/06 World Wide Circulation, Inc is a member of the National Field Selling Association NFSA A civil lawsuit has been filed against World Wide Circulation, Inc. in response to the brutal murder of Benjamin Suazo on October 20, 2005. STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ELEANOR S. OCANA, as Personal Representative of the Estate of BENJAMIN SUAZO, PLAINTIFF, v. WORLDWIDE CIRCULATION, INC.; SILVA BOWLING, INC.; DEWELL KEITH LAFLEUR individually and d/b/a MEGA SALES INC.; ANDREW LONG; JASON FURDEN; JAMES COMBS; JOSHUA BURGESS, DEFENDANTS. Read The Civil Lawsuit Against World Wide Circulation, Inc. |
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Magazine Clearinghouse: American Community Services, Inc. Indiana Secretary of State: American Community Services Criminal Profiles: Search For: American Community Services Magazine Scams: American Community Services Consumer Advocacy: Edumacation.com Consumer Advocacy: Employer of man who killed Knoxville woman has other employees accused of same ACS Member of National Field Selling Association: nfsa.com National Field Selling Association is a member of: Magazine Publishers of America: magazine.org |
Febuary 10, 2006
Toughen sales laws
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EDITORIAL WHAT'S WRONG with this picture? Magazine sales companies hire violent felons, then send them into unsuspecting communities across the country to pitch their products, door-to-door. A disturbing number of these traveling salesmen have been accused of rape and murder of elderly women who mistakenly opened their doors. Many more have been accused of burglarizing and robbing people. Yet the companies that hired them say that they bear no responsibility because the workers are independent contractors. They defiantly insist that there is no reason to change the way that they do business. The sexual assault and murder of 90-year-old Ann Elizabeth Vuori in her Lafayette home two months ago has cast a much-needed spotlight on the unregulated industry of door-to-door magazine sales. The man charged in her murder, Richard Craig McNew, 32, was a traveling magazine salesman. Authorities believe that is how Vuori met McNew, who had a long, violent rap sheet in Missouri. McNew worked for an Indiana clearinghouse that has faced several lawsuits over violence by its traveling magazine salesmen. A salesman with the same company has been charged with sexually assaulting a 74-year-old San Jose woman the same month Vuori was killed. Meanwhile, there have been increasing reports nationwide of sexual assaults, often involving elderly women, by door-to-door magazine salesmen. The nature of the business makes it difficult to rein in abuses by predatory salesmen. Clearinghouses hire sales companies that hire sales crews. Companies frequently change names to help shield them from legal troubles and hide their tracks. But it's high time that something was done to help protect the public. For starters, cities and counties should require door-to-door salesmen to get permits and submit to mandatory criminal background checks. Lafayette already has a permit ordinance. But since it is rarely enforced, it's just an empty law on the books. True, there will be those who thumb their noses at the law. But they might think twice if they know they're risking a stiff fine. The Wisconsin Senate just passed a bill requiring all door-to-door sales crews to register with the state, post a bond and submit to background checks on employees. Supporters of tougher restrictions say it doesn't go far enough. But if it passes the Assembly, the law would be the stiffest in the country. It is a good first step, and California should follow suit. Magazine clearinghouses and sales companies have lobbied hard against efforts to make them more accountable. One of their favorite arguments is that requiring permits and background checks will drive the traveling salesmen away. In our view, that's the best argument yet. California contracostatimes.com Read This Story |
January 21, 2006
Traveling sales crews worry police
SOME PEDDLERS LINKED TO CRIME
By Elise Ackerman
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The salesman who showed up at the house near Prospect High School in San Jose was neatly dressed
and carried identification. When an elderly woman opened the door, he asked if she would buy some
magazines to help him ``earn points for his magazine sales job.''
The woman hesitated. The salesman begged for a glass of water. Once inside, he asked to use the
bathroom. And then, according to Santa Clara County prosecutors, the 40-year-old parolee dragged the
74-year-old woman into a back bedroom and raped her.
Law enforcement has long been leery of traveling sales crews, whose members have been associated
with everything from petty theft to murder.
In an effort to keep residents safe, more than a dozen local cities and counties require door-to-door
sales workers to obtain permits, and in some cases to disclose criminal backgrounds. But the
difficulty of enforcing such laws continues to leave people -- particularly elderly retirees --
vulnerable to violent predators, police said.
``We advise that you don't even open the door,'' San Jose police spokeswoman Gina Teeporten said.
All too often, police said, residents don't distinguish between the danger posed by an out-of-town
person peddling magazines and a neighborhood Girl Scout selling cookies. (Technically, both are
required to have permits.)
Earlier this month, Richard McNew, 32, a magazine salesman from Missouri, was charged with
raping and smothering a 90-year-old woman in Lafayette on Dec. 10. Less than three weeks later,
solicitor Larry Jackson allegedly attacked the 74-year-old woman in San Jose.
In August, a 19-year-old magazine salesman from Georgia was sentenced to 11 years in prison
for beating an 80-year-old Menlo Park woman so badly she had to be hospitalized.
Around the country, traveling crews of magazine sellers have been associated with at least a
dozen rapes and murders over the past few years, said Chris Coffey, a Knoxville attorney who
has represented the families of three victims.
Coffey said the problem lies in the recruitment of the crews, which typically sell on behalf
of large clearinghouses. He alleges crew owners ``recruit out of halfway houses, homeless shelters,
and they will take anyone who will go with them,'' he said.
Mike Bergerson, an attorney for American Community Services, one of the leading magazine
clearinghouses, said people who sign up are ``looking for work'' and shouldn't be stigmatized.
He said ACS encourages door-to-door sales companies to do background checks.
But Coffey said documents he has obtained showed that firms still knowingly hire people with criminal
backgrounds. McNew has a long criminal history dating back to 1993. Jackson, who was charged with
raping the 74-year-old woman in San Jose on Dec. 30, told police he was on parole for selling narcotics.
The sales crews are trained to try to get inside a house in order to make a sale, a situation
that puts residents at risk, Coffey said. He alleged peddlers are not always paid and are charged for
transportation and board. Sometimes they get frustrated ``and they snap,'' he said.
Bergerson said ``no one is forced to sell magazines'' and that ``there are probably a lot of other
sales people who are quite satisfied with the sales structure.''
Lafayette Police Chief Mike Fisher said sales crews sporadically descend upon his upscale suburban
East Bay community in such large numbers that they overwhelm the 15-member police force.
Fisher said the city requires sellers to have permits, but that his officers generally will just ask
the peddlers to leave rather than cite them for misdemeanors. ``It kind of depends on how busy we are,
unfortunately,'' he said. With only two officers on patrol at any given time, Fisher said he is loath
to tie them up citing sales crew members.
Other communities that have passed laws requiring peddlers' permits have similar practices.
During the past 10 years, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office has prosecuted only 10
people for failure to comply with county peddling requirements. Punishments included fines from
$150 to $450.
San Jose police rarely cite door-to-door peddlers because residents rarely complain, said
Deputy Chief Ken Ferguson. The department is trying to raise awareness about the law so
that residents will be more likely to call.
But Coffey said the laws also need to be toughened. For example, he said the crews should be required
to register with law enforcement each time they come to town and to provide the names and Social
Security numbers of each crew member.
``After five or six years of doing this, if I saw a van of magazine salesmen in my neighborhood,''
Coffey said, ``I would call the police whether they knocked on my door or not.'' Contact Elise Ackerman at eackerman@mercurynews.com or (408) 271-3774. Mercury News mercurynews.com California Read This Story |
January 21, 2006
When they knock, it's danger at door
By John Simerman
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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Grisly crimes against two elderly women last month in Lafayette and San Jose are only the latest in a
mounting toll of violence by members of roving bands of salesmen, say police and victims' advocates
who claim the firms often hire convicted felons to knock on doors.
Early this month, Contra Costa County prosecutors charged Missouri magazine salesman
Richard Craig McNew, 32, in the rape and smothering death of 90-year-old Ann Elizabeth Vuori of
Lafayette, whose body was found bound and gagged on her bed Dec. 10. McNew remains in a St.
Louis jail as he fights extradition.
On Jan. 4, prosecutors charged another door-to-door magazine salesman, Larry Jackson, 40,
in the Dec. 30 sexual assault of an unnamed 74-year-old woman at her West San Jose home.
San Jose police are looking into a possible link to crimes elsewhere, including the unsolved
rape of a Portland, Ore. woman in October. Don Rees, a prosecutor for Multnomah County, Ore.,
said investigators believe the rapist worked for a magazine sales team that drove south to San Jose.
"This is going on all across the country, and it's a growing concern," San Jose police Sgt. Nick Muyo.
"Clearly we're seeing more cases involving these door-to-door salesmen, who are typically not from
the area. They roll into town, they make some money and head off.
"A lot of them are legitimate. The problem is a lot of them are not."
Bay Area law enforcement agencies are urging caution when the doorbell rings. They say residents
shouldn't open their door to strangers. If they do, they should ask to see a salesperson's permit or
company identification and report anything suspicious to police.
Several communities, including Lafayette and San Jose, require door-to-door salesmen to apply for
peddler or solicitor permits. But the traveling crews often ignore them, and enforcement is difficult.
Many arrive in vans packed with 15 or more people, blanket an area and leave.
In Lafayette, neighbors of Vuori said magazine salesmen swarmed the area in the days before her
murder, pestering some residents and lingering on front lawns. Often, several sales crews work
side-by-side and stay together in motels, authorities say.
"It's this gypsy-type thing where they go from neighborhood to neighborhood. The more affluent the
neighborhood, the more of this you'll see," said Lafayette police Chief Mike Fisher. "Sometimes they get aggressive. Sometimes they get frustrated and act out inappropriately."
Sometimes, they rob, rape or kill.
Rodger Eric Broadway, 19, was just out of prison and living in a halfway house in New York when
he joined a sales team. In August 2001, he beat, raped, smothered and stabbed to death 66-year-old
Eskaline DaBorde in her Tennessee home, later pleading guilty.
In New Jersey, 18-year-old magazine salesman Azriel Bridge of Chicago was sentenced to 55 years
in prison in the beating and stabbing death of 77-year-old Shirley Reuter two years ago in Toms
River, N.J.
Door-to-door magazine salesman D'Angelo Langford, 20, of Georgia was sentenced in August to
11 years in prison for the 2004 beating and attempted rape of an 80-year-old woman in her
Menlo Park home.
Prosecutors and victims' advocates say the magazine clearinghouses that oversee the sales
crews often escape discipline. Publishing companies contract with the clearinghouses, which
contract with the sales teams, creating an arms-length buffer.
The teams go by dozens of ever-changing names, and the salesmen, in turn, work as independent
contractors. Police estimate thousands of them roam the country.
The National Field Selling Association, which represents several of the clearinghouses,
did not answer or return calls for comment from the Times.
"The great majority are ordinary kids that answered ads to travel to resort areas, make a
lot of money and friends, laugh all the way to the bank," said Earline Williams, who runs ParentWatch,
a New York-based group that advocates stiffer labor laws for the industry.
Many find themselves captive in a far-off state, much of their promised pay withheld, she said.
Occasionally, exploited young salespeople, trained to coax their way into homes, turn to crime.
Some firms looking for sales crews tap halfway houses for convicted felons, said Chris Coffey,
a Tennessee lawyer who has won two large settlements for victims' families in lawsuits against
one of the clearinghouses. In one case, the company did a background check on a convicted murderer,
but let him sell door-to-door anyway.
"They have people who are predisposed to criminal activity. They take them to the nicest
neighborhoods they can find and drop them off unsupervised," Coffey said. "A lot of times their
motives are not to sell magazines."
McNew, charged in Vuori's killing, has a history of convictions for burglary, robbery, assault
with injury and drugs and weapons charges dating to 1993, according to St. Louis court records.
On Nov. 11, he was arrested on suspicion of trespassing in the Murrieta home of a 63-year-old woman.
A sheriff's spokesman declined to name his sales crew.
Advocates have pushed in vain for tighter national labor laws for traveling sales crews.
In Wisconsin, a pending bill would force the crews to register with the state and post a bond,
undergo background checks and hire salespeople who are 18 or older.
A few towns have instituted "no knock" laws, similar to the no-call lists for telephone solicitors.
Sales crews that fail to comply can face stiff fines and be charged with trespassing.
Elsewhere, regulation and enforcement remain spotty.
"This is a nasty industry," said watchdog Phil Ellenbecker of Wisconsin, who runs a Web site,
www.travelingsalescrews.info, that chronicles numerous crimes in the industry.
"The thing that really disturbs me is, why in the name of God isn't anyone doing anything about it?"
CONTRA COSTA TIMES bradenton.com California Times staff writer Kelli Phillips and San Jose Mercury News reporter Elise Ackerman contributed to this story. Read This Story |
April 25, 2006
Attorney General Darrell McGraw's
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Press Releases and Consumer Information Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:18 pm Post subject: Attorney General McGraw Sues Check Game Solutions April 25, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chris Hedges 1-800-368-8808 304-558-8986 ATTORNEY GENERAL DARRELL McGRAW SUES TO STOP CHECK GAME SOLUTIONS, A FLORIDA COLLECTION AGENCY, FROM HARASSING CONSUMERS OVER BASELESS DEBTS Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed suit today in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County against Check Game Solutions (“CGS”), a Florida collection agency, and its President, Catherine Key of Vero Beach, Florida, for trying to collect money from West Virginia consumers for debts they claim were based on magazine subscription purchases. Problems began when CGS’s client, Universal Subscription Agency (“Universal”), sent vendors into West Virginia selling magazines door to door. Consumers were taken in by the young vendors’ pleas for assistance in meeting sales quotas, and wrote checks on the spot to purchase subscriptions for various magazines. Some consumers regretted the purchase right away and, when they could not find the salesperson in their neighborhoods, decided to stop payment on their checks. Under West Virginia law, contracts for multiple magazine subscriptions can be canceled at any time and for any reason. Instead of canceling the purchases, Universal hired CGS to send debt collection letters to consumers, accusing the consumers of writing the magazine company bad checks. In one case, CGS threatened to turn the debt over to the “Worthless Check Division” of the “State Attorney’s Office,” a fictitious entity made up by CGS to frighten consumers. CGS has never obtained a license to conduct business as a collection agency in West Virginia, and has failed to post a bond as required by law. McGraw’s office attempted to resolve complaints against CGS informally, but CGS refused to settle the matter. McGraw’s office had no other choice but to sue CGS. In his suit, McGraw seeks a preliminary injunction barring CGS from conducting any debt collection activity in West Virginia until the case can be resolved, and asks that the Court eventually order restitution, debt cancellation, and civil penalties. Consumers who would like to file a complaint are encouraged to call Attorney General McGraw’s Consumer Protection Division at 1-800-368-8808 or 304-558-8986. Consumers may also write to Post Office Box 1789, Charleston, WV 25326-1789 Fraud Update Florida State University |
Check Game Solutions Universal Subscription Agency United Subscription Agency MyTravelJob "Catherine Key" + vero "Catherine Key" + magazine "Charles Key" + vero "Charles Key" + magazine |
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Check Game Solutions Posted May 27, 2006 DMPG Research: Check Game Solutions: State of Minnesota Commissioner of Commerce Commerce Enforcment Actions: Date: 05/26/05 Cease and Desist order and notice of right to hearing Enforcement Actions May 2005 Cease and Desist order CHECK GAME SOLUTIONS INC Lic# UC20519978 Against: Unlicensed Company Action: Cease & Desist/Hearing Signed: 5/26/2005 File # CA 2500661 KRJ Allegation: Respondent conducted themselves as a collection agency without first applying for and receiving a collection agency lincense. |
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Research: United Subscription Agency (mytraveljob.com) Check Game Solutions Universal Subscription Agency MyTravelJob United Subscription Agency: mytraveljob.com PRINCIPAL ADDRESS 1850 43RD AVENUE SUITE C-10 VERO BEACH FL 32960 Changed 05/23/2005 Registered Agent: CATHERINE M KEY Business Types: For-Profit Magazine Sales Florida Secretary of State Corporation/LLC Website United Subscription Agency Sales Crews: New Generation #001 New Edition #003 M.P.R. #004 T.K.O. #005 Untouchables #006 Power House Sales #007 #008 Team USA #009 Momentum Sales #010 Total Power Sales #011 Trailblazers #012 Check Game Solutions, Inc.: 1850 43rd Avenue Vero Beach, FL 32960-0504 Phone: (772) 299-1787 Registered Agent: CATHERINE M KEY Business Types: Collection Agency Service Florida Secretary of State Corporation/LLC Website Universal Subscription Agency 6380 McLeod Drive Suite 8 Las Vegas, NV 89120 (702) 795-0038 FAX (702) 795-0039 Registered Agent: Steve Ingraham President: Richard Lamb Business Types: For-Profit Magazine Sales Nevada Secretary of State Corporation/LLC Website Criminal Profiles: Search For: United Subscription Agency Magazine Scams: United Subscription Agency Consumer Advocacy: Edumacation.com: United Subscription Agency Consumer Advocacy: Alabama man jailed for attempted rape Consumer Advocacy: Six magazine salesmen arrested after complaint Check Game Solutions, Inc. 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Febuary 25, 2006
Magazine Sales Could Be Subscription To Trouble
Feb. 25, 2006
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Across the United States, groups of young adults travel in vans to city after city and solicit magazines
from door to door.
They offer potential buyers stories of working to earn scholarships or trips, but often the youths
are not who they claim to be, according to some consumer watchdogs.
People who pay for magazine subscriptions frequently do not receive the publications. North Texan
Jennifer Parks was one of thousands of people who paid for an unfulfilled subscription. She said
she realized the deceit when the publication failed to arrive four months after she had paid.
She also said she felt pressured into the decision to buy the publication.
A representative with the Better Business Bureau said the groups of magazine salespeople typically
employ high-pressure sales tactics and that tales of earning trips or scholarships usually are untrue.
NBC 5 contacted the company behind Parks' missing magazine order. Reporter Grant Stinchfield talked with
Keitha Carson, the office manager of Denton-based Entrepreneurs Across America.
At first, Carson offered no comment to Stinchfield's questions. Eventually, Carson said one of the
company's owners disappeared and left Entrepreneurs Across America with significant debts. Still,
Carson said she believed the company would fulfill customers' orders or issue refunds.
During a follow-up telephone conversation with Stinchfield, Carson acknowledged that she was dissolving
Entrepreneurs Across America.
Consumer advocacy groups that monitor the magazine sales industry say Parks might have been lucky to
be out only the cost of a subscription. Other door-to-door sales people have physically confronted
potential customers in their homes and, in one example, barged inside a home in search of beer.
Stinchfield discovered a case in upstate New York in which James Maxon, who was selling magazines,
turned violent and stabbed to death a woman insider her home, according to police who investigated
the case.
In another instance involving door-to-door magazine solicitations, the salespeople were in danger.
In Wisconsin, Jeremy Holmes, who was driving a van filled with magazine salespeople, tried to
switch seats with another sales agent after he spotted a highway patrol officer.
The resulting crash killed seven people in the van and seriously injured another seven people,
according to the NBC 5 report.
News of the stabbing and the van crash left Parks feeling relatively fortunate.
She only lost $48. For more information, go to: On The Net: Traveling Sales Crews Information Site On The Net: Parent Watch Information Clearinghouse on Traveling Sales Crews Fort Worth, Texas nbc5i.com Read This Story |
January 27, 2006
Children's Hospital warns of sales scam
Published 01/27/06 00:00:00
The Clovis Independent
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NEWS BRIEFS Children's Hospital Central California has learned that an organization called Entrepreneurs Across America has been selling magazines door-to-door in the Fresno area, claiming its sales benefit cancer patients at Children's Hospital in Madera. But the organization has no affiliation with Children's Hospital, and is not participating in a hospital fundraiser, officials say. Anyone with questions about the legitimacy of any fundraiser for Children's Hospital is instructed to call administration at 353-7100. clovisindependent.com Clovis, California Read This Story |
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February 26, 2006 DMPG research into the above magazine sales company: Entrepreneurs Across America Website: Entrepreneurs Across America Entrepreneurs Across America, Inc. Phone: (940) 565-1000 Fax: 214-975-1269 401 S. Locust St. Ste. 104 Denton, TX 76201 Owner: George Frederick Senner IV Sales Crews: Threedom Sales, Inc. - 333 PMA, Inc. - 037 Buckeye Sales, Inc. - 528 Schaefer Sales - 247 Titan Sales, Inc. - 046 Kenmore Sales - 057 Attitude Sales - 501 Power Plus Sales - 011 Tomohawk Sales - 094 Production Sales - 143 |
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Magazine Company: Great Lakes Circulation Colorado Secretary of State Corporation/LLC Website: Colorado S.O.S. Corp/LCC Magazine Scams: Great Lakes Circulation Consumer Advocacy: Edumacation.com: Great Lakes Circulation Consumer Advocacy: Edumacation.com: Mountain Subscriptions BBB Reliability Report As reflected in the Denver/Boulder BBB on: 05/14/06 at 9:45 AM PST BBB Report: Great Lakes Circulation ripoffreport.com: Rip Off Report: Great Lakes Circulation Magazine Company/Sales Crews as of 05/14/06: Great Lakes Circulation aka American Cash Award aka Payne Sales aka Shumate Sales aka Magazines Inc. aka Mountain Subscriptions Great Lakes Circulation Contact Info: Great Lakes Circulation 29029 Upper Bear Creek Rd. Suite 202 Evergreen, CO 80439 (303) 674-8252 FAX (303) 679-9909 Principle: Mark Shumate Google Search: Mark Shumate Google Search: Great Lakes Circulation Great Lake Circulation is a Member of National Field Selling Association: nfsa.com National Field Selling Association is a member of: Magazine Publishers of America: magazine.org Article Info: Great Lakes Circulation State To Investigate Company That Allegedly Abandoned 2 Teens Organizations Leaves Girls, 17, At Bus Stations In Dallas, Austin Read This Story Magazine sales work ends in tale of terror Read This Story Crews live and die to sell Young magazine peddlers nationwide face abuse, danger Read This Story Note: The DMPG collects information from various sources: police reports, court documents, media articles, and secretary of state websites. The DMPG is not responsible for inaccurate data in any of the above sources of information. Various company websites change over a period of time. Information and Links also change. The DMPG cannot control this and for this reason cannot guarantee 100% accuracty of data. If you have a question or find an error on this website please contact the DMPG WebMaster: WebMaster ~or~ read the DMPG disclaimer: DMPG Disclaimer |
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Magazine Company: Integrity Sales/Integrity Program Integrity Program Website: integritypgm.com Arizona Secretary of State Corporation/LLC Website: Az. S.O.S. Corp/LCC Arizona Secretary of State: Integrity Sales: Integrity Sales Criminal Profiles: Search For: Integrity Sales Magazine Scams: Integrity Sales Consumer Advocacy: Edumacation.com: Integrity Sales BBB Report Phoenix, Az.: unsatisfactory Rip Off Report: Integrity Sales Magazine Company/Sales Crews as of 05/13/06: Magazine Fulfillment Services - Operated by Robert Spruiell Integrity Sales, Inc. - Operated by Robert Spruiell Integrity Program, Inc.- Operated by Robert Spruiell Circulation I - Operated by Karkeen Hillery Circulation II - Operated by Karleen Hillery SERVICES UNLIMITED PLUS - Operated by Karleen Hillery Spruiell/Robert Spruiell National Community Clearing, INC - Operated by Karleen Hillery TEAM X-TREME DYNASTY SALES POWERHOUSSE SALES KAYS NATURALS - Karleen Hillery Crew Crew Name: 029 Crew Name: 032 IP MARKETING IMPACT PUBLICATIONS Subscriptions Plus - Operated by Karleen Hillery (old mag. company name - may be in use again) Google Search: Karleen Hillery Google Search: Robert Spruiell Integrity Sales is a Member of National Field Selling Association: nfsa.com National Field Selling Association is a member of: Magazine Publishers of America: magazine.org RIP-OFF Report.com Integrity Sales ripoff Phoenix Arizona *Consumer Comment ..New Info Read This Rip-Off Report On Integrity Sales Lookup: Karleen Hillery on Profiler: Karleen Hillery Profile Lookup: Karleen Hillery - Janesville Wisconsin Van Crash March 25, 1999 Karleen Hillery Profile View Recent Criminal Activities of Karleen Hillery Spruiell: Karleen Hillery Spruiell (NOTE: for search on Arizona State Supreme Court Criminal Records Enter: Last Name: Spruiell, First Name: Karleen in search box. View Wisconsin DOJ Civil Lawsuit Against Karleen Hillery (case # 00-CV-0852) State of Wisconsin V. Karleen Hillery View Illinois Magazine Sales Fraud Lawsuit Against Karleen Hillery (case # 02-CH125) State of Illinois V. Karleen Hillery Note: The DMPG collects information from various sources: police reports, court documents, media articles, and secretary of state websites. The DMPG is not responsible for inaccurate data in any of the above sources of information. Various company websites change over a period of time. Information and Links also change. The DMPG cannot control this and for this reason cannot guarantee 100% accuracty of data. If you have a question or find an error on this website please contact the DMPG WebMaster: WebMaster ~or~ read the DMPG disclaimer: DMPG Disclaimer |
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