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Is American Family Legal Plan Duping Minnesota's Elderly?new

An agent told Florence Carlson that her money would be much better off at American Family Legal Plan. In fact, if Carlson didn't buy a living trust with American Family before she died, the costs of estate taxes and probate fees could suck thousands of dollars from her savings.
City Pages (Twin Cities)  |  Erin Carlyle  |  02-17-2010  |  Children & Families

Consider the Consequences of Not Making Background Checks Before Engaging a Financial Advisernew

Based on interviews for this story, people who market debt-elimination services online are riddled with bad judgment. They have to be, because the only other possibility is that they are knowingly engaging in fraud, and some of these people are lawyers, so that just can't be.
Houston Press  |  Craig Malisow  |  12-08-2009  |  Economy

Pay a Company to Get Rid of Your Debt by Saying it Never Really Happened in the First Placenew

You've been duped, deluded and taken for a ride. Everything you think you know about money is wrong. Federal law has never allowed banks to extend "credit," because there is no such thing as credit. At least not the way you've been led to believe.
Houston Press  |  Craig Malisow  |  12-08-2009  |  Economy

Prosecution or Persecution?new

Facing charges from money laundering to aiding terrorists, local Muslims say they are victims of a government witch hunt
Metroland  |  Chet Hardin  |  09-29-2006  |  Crime & Justice

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