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Authorities with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the New York Police Department say the crew squeezed a combined $200,000 out of three men, at least, reports the Associated Press, plying them with drinks spiked with illegal synthetic drugs like the one the young people call “molly.”
Once they had the men wasted at clubs, officials said the strippers would run up huge charges on their credit cards while they were incapacitated.
Law enforcement officials arrested four women described as professional strippers on charges including grand larceny, assault and forgery, and a strip club manager surrendered today.
The arrests happened after an undercover investigation that found the women also used the tranquilizer ketamine on men after arranging dates at fancy bars in the NYC area, and then drove their victims to the city to visit clubs.
When it was all over, the men said they’d wake up in their cars or in hotel rooms, their minds wiped of the night’s events to varying degrees. And they claimed strippers would threaten to go public with stories if they tried to dispute their bills.
“The defendants were banking on the victims being too afraid to contact the police, but as the indictment and arrests show, they made a serious miscalculation,” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said.
One club sued the cardiologist last month over $135,303 in unpaid services, saying he showed up there freely on four separate occasions. He disputed those charges, saying he’d been drugged.
Feds: NYC Strippers Drugged, Stole From Rich Men [Associated Press]
If the company can’t answer that question, it won’t survive. Earlier this week, before those terrible financial results came out, The Shack announced a novel plan: they want to fix your out-of-warranty phone. The “Fix it Here” program already exists at a few stores near the headquarters in Dallas, and it could expand to as many as 700 nationwide by the end of the year.
This plan is secretly brilliant, but only if the company is able to provide the service that people actually want by fixing their phones, avoiding the chain’s current reliance on upsells and the sale of service plans.
Of course, time is a flat circle. Twenty years ago, Radio Shack started a program where they would accept out-of-warranty electronics from outside companies: fixing customers’ TVs and VCRs back when repairing them was actually a thing, instead of our current preference for throwing them away. Back then, repairs took a few weeks: the idea of this new plan is to fix phones the same day, in-store, because we can’t function without our phones.
Will this plan work to actually get people to walk into the hundreds of Radio Shack stores equipped to make repairs? We’ll find out in the next year.
But hey, if the CEO can turn things around, he’ll get some sweet bonuses.
RadioShack, Short on Shoppers, Crowdsources Inventory [Bloomberg BusinessWeek]
Can Radio Shack fix it? [Marketplace]
Toyota announced that the company may have received an incomplete list of potentially defective airbag units from Japanese-supplier Takata when the recall was first issued last year, USA Today reports.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notification [PDF] of the original recall, a defect on the passenger side frontal airbag could produce excessive internal pressure causing the inflator to rupture upon deployment.
In the event of a crash the airbags could inflate incorrectly in a crest and “propel fragments toward occupants.”
The renotification recall includes 766,300 model year 2003-04 Toyota Corolla, Corolla Matrix and Tundra trucks, 2002-2004 Sequoias and 2002-2004 Lexus SC 430 coupes.
Toyota reports there have been no crashes or injuries, but one seat cover did sustain burns related to the issue.
Last year, Toyota, Honda and Nissan recalled more than 3.4 million vehicles because their Takata supplied airbags were found to deploy abnormally.
Toyota re-recalls 766,300 for airbag shrapnel risk [USA Today]
Sandusky police responded to another call on the scene, a park employee housing complex, early Sunday morning, and say they found a large fight going on in a recreation area, reports The Detroit Free Press .
A total of 16 Cedar point employees were arrested for disorderly conduct and aggravated rioting, after police reportedly struggled with people on the scene allegedly doing stuff like pushing, swinging at the cops and other behavior. One man was reportedly Tasered three times before he would comply with officers’ orders.
So basically, it was a brawl.
The park reopened on Monday morning, which might’ve been a rough morning if any of those workers were on the schedule, one might think. But they weren’t, because it seems they were fired.
A Cedar Point spokesperson tells Consumerist:
“Cedar Point police arrested several off-duty employees as the result of an incident that took place early Sunday morning outside an employee dormitory complex. This is a rare incident and none of those involved are still employed at Cedar Point. We have thousands of employees who do a great job at Cedar Point each year.”
13 Cedar Point workers from Michigan arrested after brawl [The Detroit Free Press]
On Wednesday, the CFPB opened an inquiry [PDF] into the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of mobile financial services by asking consumers and businesses to provide information regarding their use of the products.
“In a world where people can manage their money on the go, there is great potential to serve more consumers and allow them to take greater control of their finances,” CFPB director Richard Cordray says in a new release. “But we need to make sure all consumers are protected whether they are opening their wallets or scanning the screen on their smartphones.”
A recent Federal Reserve study found that 74,000 consumers began using mobile banking services each day last year. Consumers can process a number of transaction through mobile banking including transferring funds between accounts, monitoring account balances and depositing checks.
The Bureau’s inquiry specifically addresses how the use of mobile payment products can be used to improve the financial lives of underserved consumers, who may include younger consumers, those with low-income, or those who live in locations without easy access to traditional banking.
The following issues will be addressed through the CFPB’s request for information:
Access to the underserved – The Bureau is looking at the ways that mobile technologies could expand access to financial services. Specifically, the Bureau is seeking information on whether using mobile devices opens up options in financial services and money management for unbanked and underserved consumers and whether these options are cheaper than traditional financial services.
Real-time money management – How can mobile products and services be used as a tool to help consumers manage their money while making spending decisions.
Customer service – The Bureau will explore what types of customer service or technical assistance are available to consumers using mobile products. Additionally, the Bureau will determine what kinds of protections are available to consumers if they were to lose their device or get cut off from cell or internet service.
Privacy concerns and data breaches – Mobile banking consists of using consumers’ sensitive personal information, the Bureau will determine what kind of information these companies are collecting on consumers, how it is being disclosed to consumers, and how the information is being used.
Comments on the issue will be received until September 9.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Inquiry Into Mobile Financial Services [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]
