Does
business as College Assistance Planning, College Assistance
Program, and C.A.P.
LOCATION:
400 Colony Square, Suite 2030, Atlanta, Georgia.
Defendants:
David Chaim Levy; Donna M. Levy (also known as Donna Holeger).
Complaint
filed 8/96. Order granting summary judgment to Commission
entered in September, 1997. Defendants ordered to pay $6
million in consumer redress and post a $6 million bond before
engaging in telemarketing.
Estimated
30,000 victims; $6 million injury
2.
College Assistance Services, Inc.
LOCATION:
4567 N. Pine Island Road, Sunrise, Fl.
Defendants:
Linda Love; Conni Canella; Randolph Cannella; John Giuffrida.
Complaint
filed 8/96. Settlement entered December, 1997. Defendants
agreed to a ban on offering scholarship services and agreed
to post $200,000 bond before engaging in telemarketing.
Consumer redress provided to consumers using bond posted
by defendants with the State of Florida.
Estimated
6,000 victims; $1 million injury in six months
3.
Deco Consulting Services, Inc.
LOCATION:
Lauderhill, Florida
Defendants:
Jesse Nieves; Dania Denis.
Complaint
filed 10/96. Settlement entered December, 1997. Defendant
agreed to ban on offering scholarship services and telemarketing.
Judgment entered in the amount of $100,000.
Estimated
50,000 victims; $8 million injury in 3 years
4.
National Grant Foundation, Inc.
LOCATION:
Sunrise, Florida
Defendants:
Wallace Millman; Anthony Consalvo; Dennis J. Colonna; Harriet
Kaye; Beverly Jansen; Carol Clough.
Complaint
filed 11/97. Settlement entered March, 1998 as to three
telemarketers banning them from offering scholarship services
and prohibiting them from making misrepresentations while
telemarketing. Settlement entered March. 1998 as to management
defendant, banning him from offering scholarship services
and telemarketing. Case pending against two remaining management
defendants.
Estimated
4,000 victims; $600,000 injury in less than a year
5.
National Scholarship Foundation, Inc.
LOCATION:
Delray Beach, Florida
Defendants:
Eleanor Morse; Calvin Morse; Dorothy Beam; Sandra K. Brown;
James P. McKenna; Timothy Quinn.
Complaint
filed 11/97. Settlement entered September 1998 banning compny
and officers from providing scholarship services and business
information services. Defendants ordered to pay $50,000
and to post $100,000 performance bond before telemarketing
credit services.
Estimated
15,000 victims; $2.8 million injury
6.
Christopher ebere nwaigwe and udoka maduka
Nwaigwe
also known as Christopher Maige, Michael Morge, and Michael
Norge.
Maduka
also known as Michael Mann
Defendants
use names Higher Education Scholarship Program; National
Health Scholarship Program, Division of Nursing; National
Scholarship Program; National Management Scholarship Program;
and National Science Program, Division of Biological Sciences.
LOCATIONS:
724 Dulaney Valley Road, Boxes 131 and 199, Towson, Maryland;
2931 ODonnell Street, Box 313, Baltimore, MD; 8604
Second Avenue, Silver Spring, MD; 1220 L Street NW, Box
298, Washington, D.C.; 2117 L Street NW, Boxes 250 &
280, Washington, D.C.; 4431 Lehigh Road, Box 276, College
Park, Maryland.
Complaint
filed 8/96; Amended Complaint filed 9/96. Settlement entered
April, 1997. Defendant Nwaigwe agreed to $10,000 judgment
and to post a $300,000 bond before offering scholarship
services. Defendant Maduka agreed to $9,000 judgment and
to post a $50,000 bond before offering scholarship services.
Defendant Nwaigwe convicted in March1999 on mail fraud charges
by the Office of the United States Attorney for the District
of Maryland.
Estimated
50,000 victims; $500,000 injury
7.
Student Assistance Services, Inc., formerly known as Student
Financial Services, Inc.
LOCATION:
1868 N. University Drive, Suite 202 Ft. Lauderdale , FL;
2801 N. University Dr., Suite 200, Plantation, FL
Defendants:
Fred Markowitz; Donald McGovern.
Complaint
filed 8/96. Settlement entered June, 1997. Defendants paid
$300,000 for consumer redress; agreed to ban on scholarship
services and to post $75,000 bond before telemarketing.
Estimated
19,000 victims; $3.4 million injury
8.
Student Aid Incorporated
LOCATION:
1040 First Avenue, Suite 352, New York City; 99-44 62d Avenue,
#2G, Rego Park, NY
Complaint
filed 8/96. Settlement entered August, 1997. Defendants
paid $7,500 in consumer redress and agreed to injunctions
regarding offering of scholarship services.
Estimated
1500 victims; $125,000 injury
ESTIMATED
TOTAL: 175,000 VICTIMS; $22 MILLION IN INJURY
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