Three Face Prison Time Over $1 Million Toilet Paper Scam in Florida
- Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:41am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Three people are facing up to two decades in prison over a $1 million toilet paper scam in South Florida.
Federal prosecutors say the trio duped elderly customers into buying unnecessary septic products, in some cases more than 70 years worth of toilet paper, the Miami Herald reported.
Salespeople for FBK Products allegedly told more than a dozen victims they needed to buy the company’s special toilet paper to avoid ruining their septic tanks, claiming the federal government had changed regulations on toilet paper.
They said the company was affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Herald reported, and even claimed one product — the $199 Septic Remedy treatment — would eliminate the need to have tanks pumped.
Victims were also told that they needed special soap, detergent and toilet paper or their septic tanks would not pass federal inspection, prosecutors say. The federal government does not regulate septic tank products.
The three pleaded guilty in federal court last week to conspiring to commit wire fraud and will be sentenced in February. Three other employees are awaiting trial.
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Comments (98)
cassandra
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:20amDemocraps ,liberals,progressives are #1 in dealing #2
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 2:36pmAgreed! Well said!
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:17amHow does the government get the moral authority to put any scam artist in jail after sponsoring green jobs, stimulus spending, selling fake Global Warming legislation to save the planet and printing money out of thin air? I don’t doubt that they got the idea of flushing paper down the drain from the FED. Jailing these people is a grotesque failure of the concept of social justice.
Report Post »Nlitend1
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:52amhow does glenn beck get the moral authority to print this article? He pushes Goldline like a drug and they have been fleecing this lot for a decade. Buy gold, buy water, buy guns and food stores…maybe some people needed 70 years of tp, cause they are being scared ****less.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:05amThe fed is regulating LIGHT BULBS … no wonder these people fell for the scam! And yes in Florida septic systems are under “attack” by local government also . because they want the money from sewer systems that these people would provide … the government ASSISTED this Scam!
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:17amAlways a new tax. Our county now has to have GOVERNEMENT EMPLOYEES come out and inspect your septic tank once a year at a cost to you of $75. For no other reason than to get more money out of your pocket. We live in one of those states that has no state sales tax. They tax for everything else. I have a few chickens for eggs for my family. I get TAXED for each chicken every year. A couple of goats to keep the weeds down, I get taxed for them,because I don’t go and buy TAXED Gasoline to mow the weeds instead. Property TAXES are already high. DOn‘t think because you live in a state that has no state sales tax that you’re getting something for nothing. In many cases it’s worse.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:39amHey NotEnlightened, they are called paying advertisers, you know those people who pay so ‘The Blaze” can operate and you can come on and advertise your ignorance. Ain’t capitalism grand.
Glenn does not force anyone to buy from these advertisers; it is not a condition to participate. In addition, he also says all these may not be right for you; that you have to decide to purchase. The only reason you are saying Goldline is a scam, is because they are advertising with Glenn. Otherwise, you would not have an issue. So take your fake outrage and use where someone cares.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:14pm@nlitend1 – really? we’ve been fleeced by buying gold over the last few years?
HEY DUMBA$$, IF YOU BOUGHT GOLD 2-3 YEARS AGO YOU DOUBLED YOUR MONEY. (I DID!)
Please don’t prepare, NOTHING is going to happen, everything is fine in the world…don’t put any extra food away… nothing could possibly happen… it won’t happen here… the economy is improving! what could possibly go wrong!?
Now… for the rest of us regular Americans, BE PREPARED.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:21pm@NLT—get over yourself. It’s hilarious watching you foam at the mouth over Glenn Beck and Goldline. Go Occupy something.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:23pmI guess the courts will decide if Goldline is a scam.
http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/goldline-executives-accused-of-theft-and-fraud-in-a-19-count-criminal-complaint/
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 5:12pmI couldn’t agree more. I can”t tell you how many letters I’ve written wanting to know where the prosocution for all of this obvious government corruption is. I get no replies from anyone. Including my good, solid, conservative, Senator Rubio.
And un-NLITEND1, you’;re right. That damn Glenn Beck making me buy gold at just over $800.00 a troy ounce. Damn him. What’s it down to now, $1682.00. Damn him.
Report Post »Colt45acp
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:06pmI could not have said it better myself.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:01amJust watch. The feds will now start regulating septic tank products.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:07amWelll they did make Dishwasher detergent lousy with a law…. and it messed up my auto despensing unit in my dishwasher .. and they ARE regulating “real” light bulbs out of exisitance … they ARE into EVERYTHING …. Control freaks that they are!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:41amCATB I think the better description is BULLIES.
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:23pmI was thinking the same thing, if they aren‘t regulating septic systems yet but find out that someone else made a million doing it I’m sure the gov will trying it next.
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:33amWell you can be sure that they dident sell any of this stuf to democrats, they the dems are still useing what they can find on the ground out in their nabours back yard.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:43amyeh …Another reason is they don’t have to go near as often,
Report Post »thats why their so full of it.
turkey13
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:02amI hope all 3 get stuck with Big – Big John. I think the prison population will think of their own parents and Grand parents and put these guys in the same catagory as child molesters. If they have a hemmroid problen it will be eliminated.
Report Post »blaaaaackwoman
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:16amAs someone who spends a lot of time in the forest I can tell you from personal experience not to use smooth rocks (picture in your mind using a trowel to smooth out some fresh concrete), rough rocks like decomposing granite (it will feel like you stuck you wipe area under a sun lamp for 4 hours later that day), last years old crumbling brown leaves (imagine a salted nut roll with broken up leaves instead of nuts smeared to your wipe area), pine cones ( even “with the grain” it’s worse than a cheese grater), plastic bags. A universal truth is if you get any on your finger you will shorty afterwards get an eye itch and you’ll use the wrong hand to scratch you eye.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:33amWe should all give thanks that we still have a paper industry than can turn out this product in a variety of textures and performance! We are lucky they didn’t ship that industry offshore, say to France, where they use little single-ply, waxed-paper panels with splinters in it!
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:44pmIn another life when I was overseas we called that waxed paper with splinters in it John Wayne paper because it don’t take s..t off of anybody.
Report Post »varnell99
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:27amSo the government is going to put the three in prison for “decades” and we the tax payers are going to support them, while the elderly victims are just going to have to suffer. No way have the three manually clean out each and every septic system of each and every owner they cheated. Work days and spent night in jail. That way don’t just sit around all day and night and the people they cheated get something back.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:18amGosh, why couldn’t I think up something like this! What a wonderful idea! It‘s almost as good as the ’air cleaners’ advertised on overnight TV. They’re basically sanitary pads that you clip to your ceiling fan blades. As they ‘clean’ the air, they eventually get dirty and you replace them! I think you get a set of 8 for $20, PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING! The instructions probably tell you how fast to run your fans to keep up the replacement rate, without slinging the components all around your house! Hoo-ha, what a great idea!
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:52amThey also cause the fan to be unbalanced and ruin the bearings. It causes the fan to use about twice as much electricity(more load).
Report Post »seabat471
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:01amSeniors! Get a 50% t.p. discount. Use both sides!
Report Post »flrick
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:16amHow is what they did any different than what the real EPA, FDA, and the Dept. of Agriculture do every day. Money grubbing government liars, all of them.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:09amObama has put the Bureaucracy on steroids, so who can blame the victims? Obama’s bureaucracy exposed click on http://commonsense21c.com/BUREAUCRACY.html
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:50amThe federal government does not regulate septic tank products. – - – yet!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:56am70 years worth of toilet paper , to an elderly person ? Thats a lot of crap ; ))
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:13amI’ve got ONE septic tank product they had BETTER NOT try and regulate, or there is going to be poop to pay!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:45amNow they have a new idea…Thanks! Your idea screwed us again….
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:27pm70 years of toilet paper won’t be enough when IT hits the fan.
Report Post »felix
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:40ama fools born every minute
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:46amI dunno Felix.
Report Post »Yeah, you nor I would fall for this crap (lol, what a pun) But ya gotta remember–The Govt has taken control of everything. SO if you have three professional looking people tell you they’re with the EPA , DEP of AG, , and FDA, these folks would certainly be justified in believing it. I mean, fer pete sake !!! The govt is telling us what kind of lightbulbs we can use !!!!
Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:22amYeah! But in the case of the lightbulbs, you HAVE to comply, or GE will go to the government and cry really big GREEN TEARS! And, then they might pass a law that you can only buy GE refrigerators! (I swear, I really liked George Bush, but he really pulled a ***** on this one! And, OUR CONGRESS demonstrated how absolutely STUPID they are by failing to repeal the law during the Obamination years, hopefully soon to be over!
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 11:13amSpeaking of lightbulbs, we‘ve only got about 35 days left to stock up on real lightbulbs before they’re all snatched from the store shelves and we’re forced to buy the toxic, short-lived, inefficient “green bulbs”.
Report Post »I’ve got about 20 four-packs so far, and I’m buying a lot more before the January 1st deadline. Because a lot of people will wise up at the last minute and try to grab as many as they can, and you won’t find them anywhere.
Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:39amTheir going to love the government toilet paper they use in federal prison.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:14amThey‘ll use federal reserve notes because that’s all they’ll be good for.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:36amSo, can we say that their savings were…WIPED out?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:40amThat is one way of putting it; glad though these thugs are going away for a long time.
Report Post »Mrtoohappy
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:30amWhy wouldn’t they be regulated with all the sh&t that comes out of Obamas mouth and Washington they should be regulated.
Report Post »snrub
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:29amOK, lets arrest the guys that sold us social security. They claimed we would not NEED toilet paper unless we bought that product.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:19amThey were only doing this because they had such bad luck selling toilet paper to the OWS crowd.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:24amLike in the mid-East–finger-licking good!
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:18amPaper or plastic?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:18am.
Here I sit in the vapor
Some darn fool has stole the paper
So here I sit, and I can’t linger
Look Out! Hole here comes the finger
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:27amWhat I can’t figure out is in designing the human body, why they put the snack bar so close to the out house? Somebody had a sense of humor!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:02am@Salamander—They?
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:16amThe Blaze posted this story simply because they wanted to read the comments.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:29amYes, and aren’t there some beauties!
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:17pmI agree!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:05pmditto……..
Report Post »modilly
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:15amIt’s already here! I have an “engineered” system that requires the peat moss to be replaced every 8 years. When installed they told us that it would cost approximately $1000. A recent letter from the county says $2000. It has something to do with the “Bay Act” and non-perking land. I’m shopping around.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:18amYep, property has to percolate.
Report Post »DanielBurke
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:02amAny senior citizen who buys enoug toilet paper to last them another 70 years is really optimistic!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:13amThe problem here is that with EPA regulations run amock, it’s plausible that this could happen, that the regulations change and you’re “out of the regs” and could be arrested. I‘d be willing to bet that a majority of us are breaking some obscure law and don’t even know it.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:56amWhat`s the difference between these guys and the federal government. Our entire government is a scam from A to Z.
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:55amIf someone told me septic tanks were regulated by the Gov. I wouldn’t be surprised either…but I would check it out for real before I gave anyone a penny.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:02amThey are regulated by the Gov.. It‘s the cleaning products that aren’t regulated, as I said YET but after this column they will be.. Sheesh you can‘t even buy a toilet that doesn’t flush a certain way anymore. The Government has their tentacles in every aspect of our lives.. Soon they will be able to control our electricity and everything..
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:50amThe EPA’s probably thinking, “we were just about to do that for real, now you blew it for us!” As reprehensible as the scam was, it was much worse than what the EPA does every day to America’s businesses! They are totally out of control, and make this sort of scam easy to believe, and even easier to perpetrate.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:58amThe federal government does not regulate septic tank products. <<<< YET…
Report Post »quicker
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:46amI guess you could say that`s it`s all done but the paperwork.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:14amlol
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:37amSomeone once told me they could predict the arrival of the paperless office with some degree of accuracy–it would arrive one day before the paperless bathroom! I know that Japan has perfected the spray-wash, perfume and blow-dry appliance for taking care of the task, but I wonder when Apple is coming out with the iCrap so that we can subscribe to some expensive service and carry our hygiene around on our belt clips, pockets or pocketbooks–or should we go back to the Corn?
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