by admin | May 10, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Florida telemarketer has been sentenced to prison for five years for defrauding an elderly Columbia man. Charges against Thomas Francis Crossin say he and another man convinced Columbia resident Fred Faurot to send them almost 19-hundred dollars as so-called...
by admin | Apr 5, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A telemarketing bill has passed the House even though some representatives say the amendment process has rendered it useless. The bill seeks to crack down on telemarketing fraud and would create a DO NOT CALL list to which Missourians could add their names. But...
by admin | Mar 15, 2000 | News
A proposed law that would let Missourians tell telemarketers to leave them alone has advanced in the state Senate…but not until numerous efforts to create loopholes were turned aside. This is the proposed law that lets Missourians put their names on a statewide...
by admin | Mar 9, 2000 | News
Work has started in the state senate on the proposed law that to let people eat dinner without being interrupted by somebody trying to sell them windows, credit cards, or other things they don’t need. “A pain in the neck” is the way one state senator...
