Tag Archives: environment

Nearly 1,000 Investors Across The World Defrauded Out Of $294 Million

Former managing director of a hedge fund (that was forced into receivership by U.S. government regulations), Philip Baker, was sentenced this month to 20 years in prison for fraudulently soliciting and obtaining around $294 million from around 900 investors across the world. Baker, who controlled Lake Shore Asset Management, and the Lake Shore Group of [...]

The Clean, Green, Defrauding Machine!

Clean Green Fuel’s Rodney Hailey was charged in a criminal information filed on October 3, 2011 with wire fraud, money laundering and a violation of the Clean Air Act in connection with a scheme where he allegedly sold $9 million in renewable fuel credits allegedly produced by his company. According to reports Hailey owned Clean [...]

Watt Did You Say? Going Green and Gaining Green.

In what has become almost an obsession with me I’ve been running around changing all the light bulbs in my house to reduce the electric bill. Currently we use 2800 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity each month and I really want to get that number down to save cost, but also because I’ve been glued [...]

Expect Tidal Wave Of Limit Reductions and Credit Card Closures to Hit Before Christmas

Yesterday I wrote about a little old hardware store that had noticed an increase in card purchases over cash. That’s not a good sign if people are using plastic more for routine things and especially in this environment of credit card issuers reducing credit limits, raising interest rates and closing cards. You see, the credit [...]

American Express Customers: Don’t Try This At Home

I hate writing these kinds of stories. On the one hand, it will help those who are currently doing — or thinking about doing — what I am about to write about. On the other hand, there will be some readers who will now go out and do exactly what I am trying to dissuade them from doing. That said, I can’t control what my readers do. They’ll do what they’re going to do. Here’s the deal. A