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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Dec 27, 2018, 04:44 PM Dec 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Read Desperate Emails From People Scammed by A.G. Matt Whitaker's Business Associates

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Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker sat on the advisory board of a firm that scammed customers out of millions. Read desperate consumer complaints from elderly victims who lost their savings:



EXCLUSIVE: Read Desperate Emails From People Scammed by A.G. Matt Whitaker’s Business Associates

“My husband, who is a retired veteran, allowed me to use our savings. My fear of course, they have taken my money and never intended to file the patent."

C.J. Ciaramella|Dec. 27, 2018 1:45 pm

When current acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker joined the advisory board of a Florida patent firm in 2014, he was quoted in a company press release saying he "would only align myself with a first class organization."

Three years later, the company was shut down, but not before it bilked hundreds of customers, some of them elderly veterans, out of millions of dollars.

In response to a public records request to the Florida Attorney General's Office, Reason received 47 pages of consumer complaints regarding World Patent Marketing. The complains date from 2014, when Whitaker joined the firm's advisory board, to 2017, when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shut the firm down for deceptive business practices.

Read the consumer complaints here.

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EXCLUSIVE: Read Desperate Emails From People Scammed by A.G. Matt Whitaker's Business Associates (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2018 OP
Birds of a feather [seem to find each other, in this Administration] and flock together. empedocles Dec 2018 #1
How does this bastard scum even show his face in public ? Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #2

Haggis for Breakfast

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2. How does this bastard scum even show his face in public ?
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 11:39 PM
Dec 2018

You scam that many people out of their life savings, you're lucky to still be breathing.

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