Connecticut Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. has completed his investigation into Kirby Vacuum high pressure sales techniques in this state and has asked the state Attorney General to take legal action. “The Department of…
Delta Airlines has agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty after the U.S. Transportation Department found that Delta was falsely telling some its passengers that its lost luggage responsibilities were much less than required by law….
In an interesting legal argument today in Hartford Superior Court, the lawyer for The Courant and its owner, The Tribune Company, said that it cannot be held legally accountable to promises it made to me…
The Federal Communications Commission trumpeted its “historic” consent decree with Verizon Wireless that provided for a $25 million fine as proof that the FCC is there for consumers. There is no question that the fine…
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints charging that the British firm knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant for years. The New York Times said the…
Honda and Toyota recalled a totally of two million cars in the last 24 hours because of identical brake problems. On Thursday Toyota recalled over 1.5 million vehicles and Honda today recalled half a million…
An investigation by ProPublica has uncovered hundreds of doctors on company payrolls who had been accused of professional misconduct, were disciplined by state boards or lacked credentials as researchers or specialists. “This story is the…
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that Connecticut has joined with other states and the federal government in a preliminary agreement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to settle allegations involving illegal off-label drug marketing and kickback…
Hartford Courant and Fox 61 top editor Jeffrey Levine has been fired, publisher Richard Graziano confirmed today in a short statement to the news staff. Courant/Fox61 Publisher Graziano is scheduled to meet this afternoon with…
Hartford Courant and Fox 61 top editor Jeffrey Levine was supposedly told today that his job was eliminated according to several Courant sources.
The sources said that Levine was called into publisher Richard Graziano’s fourth floor suite this morning where he was told that his job was eliminated. The two had apparently been fighting over staffing issues.
Under pressure from state Attorneys General, Craigslist Wednesday confirmed that it has permanently shut down its “adult services” section. However, a company spokesman defended the site’s activities as “one of the few bright spots” in…
For those following the legal twists and turns in my wrongful termination suit agaist The Courant I am providing this update. As promised everything that I can legally disclose will be disclosed. The next oral…
Under pressure from state Attorneys General, Craigslist has replaced the adult services section with the word censored, CNN reported today. “It was not immediately clear whether Craigslist removed the adult services and replaced them with…
My old employer – The Hartford Courat – on the day it celebrates its founder, again publishes a full-page ad that boosts its revenues at the expense of its readers.
I wonder how the management explains how it can claim be a friend to consumers with its daily consumer tips and then run ads that it knows are false and knows it is helping to rip off its readers.
The call from Tyler was scary. He had been in a car accident in a rental car in Montreal and needed money to pay an attorney and fly home. Dorothy Cheo, 81, of Niantic, was…
In the summer of 1965 I began my newspaper (other than delivering the Ames Daily Tribune and the Des Moines Register) career at the Norwalk Hour as a galley boy. My summer job was to…
Wells Fargo & Co., which started a national bank scheme 9 years ago, was told last week to repay its customers more than $200 million in fees it took as part of its “unfair and…
Under new regulations adopted by the Federal Trade Commission, for-profit debt settlement companies will no longer be allowed to collect fees for their services until they have settled some or all of a consumer’s debt….
Instead of grandstanding for public relations purposes as he runs for the U.S. Senate, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal might want to reorder his priorities so that his staff focuses on complaints that actually impact his…
Thanks to CNN for its interviews with former and present debt collectors, giving us a clue to what makes these people tick. Check out the story of these people. Like, Mel Harsh, a debt collector for…