12 On Your Side: Fake debt collector harassment

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT)- A Richmond woman says she's getting tormenting calls from a bill collector - for her deceased brother. We investigated after she called 12 for help stopping the harassment.

Cheryl Tolliver says each call concerning what she believes is a bogus debt, causes her to relive her brother's death. She wants them to stop.

People are protected under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

The first call was a message left on her phone. The second call Cheryl answered. On the other end, a company called Process Server Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.

"I?told her that my brother was deceased and she ignored it," said Cheryl.

Cheryl asked the caller, how did you get this number? Cheryl says her brother was dead when she got her current phone number. Gregory passed away March 2011.

She demanded the caller stop calling but got another dismissive response.

"She can call anytime she wants to. I felt offended and violated," said Cheryl.

I?tried contacting the company for a response.?I dialed the numbers that showed up on Cheryl's phone -?the call goes nowhere.

Cheryl got 20 calls over two weeks. She requested a statement but got nothing in writing. She did get a message threatening legal action against her deceased brother.

"A?restraining order that's going to be put in place within 42 to 78 hours if my brother or his attorney does not return their phone call," said Cheryl.

Online, I?found many complaints linked to one of the numbers. Someone writes, "Called back, can't get in touch with anyone." Another said,?"I have a pending restraining order... and do not believe this company, don't send money."

"It's also iffy as to whether or not they're in Boston," said Tom Gallagher with the Better Business?Bureau.?"I mean, it could be a mail drop. It could be anything. Heaven only knows where they are. The?BBB is reporting is that the company appears to be out of business. If they were in business, they would have earned an?F report."

It may be an attempt to get Cheryl to send money blindly.

"It may be but, they got the wrong one," said Cheryl.

The FTC says here's how to identify a fake debt collector: if the caller refuses to give a mailing address, asks you for personal information, uses high pressure scare tactics, and wants payment on a debt you don't recognize.

Call the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-382-4357?or online at ftc.gov to file a complaint.

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James Cameron Announces Three Avatar Sequels

Yesterday we got a bit of an update on the long-promised sequels to writer/director James Cameron?s 2009 film Avatar, but it turns out there?s much more to the story.? Cameron has been working on two follow-up films to the sci-fi pic over the last four years, with an eye towards filming both Avatar 2 and 3 at the same time and then releasing the sequels a year apart.? While last we heard Cameron was holed up in New Zealand finalizing the scripts for the sequels, news broke yesterday that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles creator Josh Friedman had been enlisted to pitch in on the screenplay for Avatar 2.? It just so happens that this was only one third of the story, as Fox announced today that Cameron has actually enlisted the help of four screenwriters to collaborate with him on the screenplays for not only Avatar 2 and 3, but also Avatar 4, with the first sequel poised to hit theaters (finally) in December 2016.? Hit the jump for much more.

Fox announced today that not only will Cameron now film three Avatar sequels simultaneously, but he has hired screenwriters Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), and Shane Salerno (Savages) to collaborate with him on the screenplays in order to ?help bring his growing Avatar universe to life and to expedite the process.?? This is a major development with regards to the proposed Avatar follow-ups, and Fox notes that Avatar 2 will be released in December 2016, Avatar 3 will hit theaters in December 2017, and Avatar 4 will follow a year later.? Yes indeed, a trio of Avatar films are heading our way beginning in just a few short years.

This isn?t the first time we?ve heard word about?Avatar 4, as Cameron previously teased the the potential fourth film would be a prequel that explores the colonization process of Pandora. ?Whether that?s still the plan is unknown, but we now know that Fox is guaranteed to make a shitload of money with three sequels officially in the pipeline.

All three Avatar follow-ups will be filmed simultaneously, with production set to get underway next year.? Cameron had this to say regarding the news:

?Building upon the world we created with Avatar has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience.??In writing the new films, I?ve come to realize that Avatar?s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen. And to help me continue to expand this universe, I?m pleased to bring aboard Amanda, Rick, Shane and Josh ? all writers I?ve long admired -? to join me in completing the films screenplays.?

It?s not specifically stated in the press release, but one assumes that Friedman, Jaffa & Silver, and Salerno will each be assigned a specific sequel on which to collaborate.? Jaffa & Silver most recently penned the script for the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and also wrote the upcoming Jurassic Park IV.? As for Salerno, his directorial debut hits theaters later this year by way of the documentary Salinger.

Cameron hasn?t shared a screenplay credit on any of his directorial features since 1994?s True Lies, so it?s certainly telling that he has opened up the Avatar world to include four more voices.? Given that Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time with a worldwide total of $2.7 billion, Fox has been eager to get the Avatar sequels off the ground for some time now.? Bringing in some screenwriting help to get these things moving might just be the momentum Cameron needs in order to finally get the follow-ups in front of cameras.? Whether three additional Avatar films is entirely necessary, however, is another question altogether.? Hopefully Cameron makes the extensive trek back into Pandora worthwhile, since these will likely tie him up from working on any other films until 2018 at the?absolute earliest?though he has said previously that he only wants to make Avatar movies from here on out.

What do you think, dear readers? ?Are you excited about the prospect of three?Avatar?sequels? ?What areas of Pandora would you like to see explored? ?Sound off in the comments below.

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Ex-Goldman trader 'Fabulous Fab' found liable in mortgage fraud

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By TOM HAYS The Associated Press

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Former Goldman Sachs bond trader Fabrice Tourre arrives at Manhattan federal court with his lawyers in the civil fraud case against him, in New York, August 1, 2013. On Thursday he was found liable of securities violations.

A former Goldman Sachs trader who earned the nickname "Fabulous Fab" was found liable Thursday in a fraud case brought by federal regulators in response to the 2007 mortgage crisis that helped push the country into recession.?

A jury reached the verdict at the civil trial in Manhattan federal court of Fabrice Tourre ? a French-born Stanford graduate described by Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers as the face of "Wall Street greed." Tourre's attorneys portrayed him as a scapegoat in a downturn caused by larger economic forces.?

Tourre, 34, found liable in six of seven SEC fraud claims. He faces potential fines and a possible ban from the financial industry. The exact punishment will be determined at a future proceeding.?

The SEC had accused Tourre of misleading institutional investors about subprime mortgage securities that he knew were doomed to fail, setting the stage for a valued Goldman hedge fund client, Paulson & Co. Inc., to secretly bet against the investment.?

The maneuver ended up making $1 billion for the hedge fund and its wealthy president, John A. Paulson, and millions of dollars in fees for Goldman. The SEC also sought to show that it helped earn Tourre a bonus that boosted his salary to $1.7 million in 2007.?

On the witness stand, the SEC lawyers confronted Tourre with a January 2007 email it said deliberately misled another institutional investor about Paulson's short position in the investment called Abacus 2007-AC1.?

Asked repeatedly if the information in the email was "false," Tourre responded, "It was not accurate."?

He added: "I wasn't trying to confuse anybody; it just wasn't accurate at the time."?

SEC lawyer Matthew Martens said, "We're obviously gratified by the jury's verdict and appreciate their hard work." There was no immediate response from the defense.?

In closing arguments, Martens called Tourre's testimony "surreal, imaginary, unreal, dreamlike" and told jurors that the defendant wanted them "to live in his imaginary land ... to live in a fantasy world."?

"Only if you close your eyes to the facts, you can find Mr. Tourre not liable for his actions," the SEC lawyer said.?

Tourre's attorney, John Coffey, countered that the government had "unjustly accused him of wrongdoing."?

Coffey urged jurors to put the investment's failure in perspective, noting that all similarly packaged securities "went off the cliff as well" after 2007.?

The civil case had been called the most significant legal action related to the mortgage securities meltdown, but it lacked the drama and high stakes of white-collar criminal cases. Much of the testimony was devoted to the intricacies of synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs ? a complex type of investment central to the case.?

Some of the testimony focused on a personal email Tourre sent to his girlfriend in France. The SEC lawyers said the missive proved the hubris of a man at the center of a massive fraud, while the defense claimed was "an old-fashioned love letter" penned by a young trader who was full of self-doubt and angst over upheaval in the financial world.?

Writing in French, Tourre said of the financial markets: "The whole building is about to collapse anytime now."?

"Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab ... Standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstrosities!!!"?

Pressed by Marten on what he meant, Tourre said, "I didn't create any monstrosities."?

Goldman settled with the SEC in 2010 by paying a $550 million fine without admitting or denying wrongdoing. Tourre left the firm in 2012.?

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TCA: 'The Millers' panel talks fart jokes, seniors with STDs

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By Tim Kenneally

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The panel for Greg Garcia's upcoming CBS comedy "The Millers" at the Television Critics Association on Monday took a bawdy turn, with executive producer Greg Garcia and stars Will Arnett, Beau Bridges, Margo Martindale and J.B. Smoove weighing in on everything from the effective use of fart jokes to increased rates of sexually transmitted diseases among senior citizens.

Asked if the pilot episode of the series - which stars Arnett as a newly divorced reporter, and Martindale and Bridges as his parents, who've just split up - might push the boundary with flatulence jokes, Garcia was unapologetic.

"I've watched (the pilot) with people, people laugh at these things," he said. "I think in the next eight or nine scripts that we have there isn't a fart joke that's appeared yet. I'm not saying there won't be one, because fart jokes are funny."

Garcia cited a notorious scene in Mel Brooks' western spoof "Blazing Saddles" as an example.

"I started to think about this a little bit because I was lucky enough to go to the Mel Brooks Lifetime Achievement event. I'm sitting by Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese and Morgan Freeman - just all kinds of people - and they put up the 'Blazing Saddles' farting scene on the screen, and everyone is dying laughing.

"So farts are funny; they're just funny," Garcia continued." We're not going to do them every week, but there's really no arguing that fart and s--- jokes are funny they have their place in TV once in a while."

The breaking of wind isn't the only bodily function that the show will mine for laughs. Asked about one upcoming plot revolving around auto-eroticism in the shower, Bridges opined that there's more in that general area to come.

"I think this is just the tip of the iceberg," Bridges said. "I think these people, they're going to be dealing with a lot."

Such as?

"We were just talking the other day. Have you guys heard about this wave of sexually transmitted diseases among older people? It's growing rampant, even in the care facilities, because people are losing their mate to death or they decide to go a different way (and) they're not used to safe-sex practices," Bridges said. "So what's happening is, their grown children are having to have conversations with them about contraception and such."

Garcia, Bridges opined, is "a twisted man, and he will probably."

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Marathon Vet Hospital stretches out in its new 24-hour location

By MANDY MILES Citizen Staff

From sea turtles to spaniels, pythons to pot-bellied pigs, Dr. Doug Mader, co-owner of Marathon Veterinary Hospital, has been treating all sorts of animals for the past 14 years in the Florida Keys, where his name has become synonymous with the term "animal care."

While his name is familiar throughout the Keys -- and the world -- for his expertise in treating exotic animals and reptiles, the hospital recently moved to a new location in Marathon, where Mader and his staff of about 30 recently celebrated the grand opening of their sparkling headquarters at 5001 Overseas Hwy.

"We moved two miles up the road," Mader said.

But those two miles of road have made all the difference. The new 6,000-square-foot hospital, installed in the old Boater's World building, is the only one in the Keys that is staffed 24 hours a day for animal emergencies, and the high-tech equipment and operating rooms rival that of any human medical center.

On a recent rainy day, the hospital interior was bright and inviting, as several procedures took place simultaneously.

In one day, a small dog was under anesthesia while getting his teeth cleaned, an elderly cat was having a tumor removed while lying on a comfortably warmed stainless steel operating table and Springer spaniel was look glum and embarrassed from inside the dreaded "cone" that kept him from chewing at the blue cast that surrounded a broken leg.

But that's not all.

There were also healthy dogs and cats in the back that were simply there for a vacation, or more accurately, they were being boarded there while the owners were on vacation.

"We do not board any animals outside," Mader emphasized.

All the animals, patients and boarders, are kept in air-conditioned comfort, and the cage for each boarder is equipped with a web cam that can be accessed online by the animal's owner whenever they want to check on their four-legged friend -- or their bird, rabbit, snake, you name it.

"We'll treat anything," said Mader, whose reputation was built on his treatment of exotic animals, but he is also board certified for dogs and cats.

And before arriving in the Keys and meeting sick sea turtles, "I was a rodeo cowboy, a blacksmith and an equine doctor," he said.

Mader owns the hospital with his Swiss-born wife, Dr. Geraldine Diethelm, also a veterinarian who offers acupuncture for animals in the hospital as well. The acupuncture room, while smaller, is reminiscent of any other spa room. A water fountain bubbles in one corner under dimmed lights, while soft music helps with the relaxation.

"Acupuncture helps with arthritis, pain, anxiety," Diethelm said, "same as it does with humans."

The new hospital also boasts its own lab that can handle 99 percent of blood and urine tests, Mader said while pointing out the new Intensive Care Unit, where a metabolism cage can be manipulated to super-saturate the air with oxygen for critical cases.

A solar tube in the "cat condo" lets sunlight into the room, which is the only windowless space in the building, and an outside yard gives dogs plenty of exercise during their stay.

"The one thing people keep saying is that there's no way we could have done all this without raising our rates," Mader said, crediting Centennial Bank with the financing for the renovations. "They gave us such a good deal with the financing, that we could do all this, and we do it for the same prices."

He also pointed out the mural on the side of the building.

"Every animal on there is an animal I've treated," he said, pointing out a turtle with a missing fin that had been cut off by fishing line.

The original mural had been painted 16 years ago by a young artist named O'Farrill.

"The City Council said we had to save the mural," Mader said. "But it wasn't possible with our renovation plans, and all the concrete spalling of this wall."

Instead, he tracked down the artist, 16 years later, who is now living in Las Vegas as a successful painter.

"I told him what was going on, what I wanted to do, and he volunteered to come paint the new mural for free, as long as we'd cover the materials. It was amazing, and it looks amazing. I didn't want it to look like one of Wyland's walls because we don't have whales down here. So every animal on here is one that I've treated -- except the sailfish. The artist just likes sailfish."

So a mural remained on the building, the Marathon Veterinary Hospital expanded in both size and scope and everyone's happy -- well, except the spaniel in the cone, but he'll be fine in a few days.

mmiles@keysnews.com

Source: http://keysnews.com/node/49083

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