New victims of 'debt relief' company come forward in Oregon

by Chris Willis, KGW Reporter

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Posted on July 30, 2013 at 10:27 AM

Updated today at 2:58 PM

PORTLAND ? More victims of a ?debt relief? company scam are coming forward as the Department of Justice files a lawsuit to keep the company from doing business in the state.

KGW first reported on the story of World Law Debt earlier this month. The company promised debt relief, credit counseling and debt consolidation to people in tough financial situations. Since the story aired, Unit 8 has been contacted by several people who say they?re also out thousands of dollars.

?I thought, this will make things easier for me,? said 78-year-old Dolores Crawley. ?To take the stress off.?

Crawley, who breathes with the help of a constant oxygen tank, said she?s been giving World Law Debt more than $400 every month for several months. Her health problems caused her to fall behind with her creditors.

Crawley said not a dime has been paid to any of her creditors.

?Usually you receive statements every month with any business and they said they were still dealing with my creditors,? she said.

?We're essentially seeking to ban them from the state and we're asking for more than $10 million in damages,? said Jeff Manning of the Department of Justice. The state is also seeking full restitution for every potential victim in Oregon.

The Department of Justice?s lawsuit is in response to more than 425 potential victims in Oregon. Many say the money they paid to World Law Debt was not used to pay their creditors.

This claim was echoed by a former World Law Debt employee who asked not to be named.

?Telling them we can still make a plan, we can figure something out, knowing in my head that ultimately they're going to get sued by one of their creditors,? the employee said.

The employee said he spent years at World Law Debt in client services and eventually as a supervisor. He said lying to the customer was part of the job.

?This is not going to help them? he said. ?All they're doing is paying us basically to save money.?

Today, the Oregon Department of Justice is urging consumers to stop doing business with World Law Debt as the State?s lawsuit continues to move forward.

?For those people who have done business with World Law Debt, they need to end the relationship and they need to file a complaint with the Justice Department,? said Manning.

Crawley said she plans to follow that advice.

?I'm going to go to the bank today and stop the payments from going out, and from there I don't know what to do,? Crawley said.

World Law Debt disputed the state?s claims. A spokesperson for the company said they are operating legally in Oregon under federal law. The spokesperson says the company has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to intervene in the Department of Justice?s lawsuit.

Although the company is also being sued in other states, their motions to dismiss those lawsuits will be heard in August.

Source: http://www.kgw.com/news/local/New-victims-of-debt-relief-company-come-forward-217494141.html

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How Your Favorite Sitcom Helped Budge GDP

Seinfeld's last episode aired in May 1998, but there was a night two weeks ago when, at least in Washington, you had your choice of two episodes on basic TV at the same time.?

Fifteen years after it officially ended, Seinfeld is still an entertainment colossus. Officially, as of Wednesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis has decided to count that in its calculations of economic output.

On Wednesday morning, the BEA released its once-every-five-years benchmark revisions to its gross domestic product?measurementin its comprehensive revision of the national income and product accounts, or NIPA. And now the measurement includes a section called "intellectual-property products," which contains what the BEA refers to as "entertainment originals"?a move that allows some entertainment to be counted as a sort of investment.

But "entertainment originals" isn't just a catch-all for everything that comes across your screen of choice. How the BEA assesses television programs makes this clear. Dramas and "situational comedies" fit their criteria for art that has ownership rights, is long-lived, and is used repeatedly in production. Something like a Heat-Spurs NBA playoff game doesn't. Nor would an episode of Days of Our Lives, or World News Tonight.

On the other hand, the BEA does include all motion pictures and musical recordings in investment. So, congratulations Ke$ha and Spring Breakers: You've made it into the GDP. The calculations also include products such as greeting cards and stock photography?the kind of stuff that can wind up being used over and over in production, says the BEA's Brent Moulton. But, like all assets, the actual value of something like a Carly Rae Jepsen song or a JJ Abrams movie is likely to depreciate over time,?sometimes not much time at all.

Many of these forms of entertainment were already included in GDP in some form. The cost of a book or movie ticket was always in there, says Moulton. The new category is less about the physical, and more about the actual investment value of the entertainment over time.?The process and calculations involved are explained in a paper from two BEA employees.

The latest revisions to the calculation of GDP are "all about relevance," said Steve Landefeld, the bureau's director. But he was clear to say that it wasn't "rewriting economic history."

And rewrite economic history it did not. Like the result of every episode of Seinfeld, the inclusion of entertainment isn't earth-shattering. Entertainment originals contributed about $74.3 billion to GDP in 2012, but the BEA is cautious about banking purely on their dollar figures.In percentage terms, that rounds out to a contribution of about zero percent of the total GDP for 2012 of about $16.2 trillion.

It's definitely not nothing, though. As the Wall Street Journalpointed out, intellectual-property products?which now also include software and R&D?took off during the Internet boom in 1997, only to drop off by the 2001 bust. And we're still talking about billions of dollars added to the economy. But, as exciting as it may sound to start including entertainment as investment in GDP, the U.S. economy is just so massivethat it barely moves the needle.

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At least seven injured, three critically, after blasts rock Florida propane plant

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A series of explosions engulfed a propane plant in flames in Tavares, Florida, late Monday. This photo was taken at 11.36 p.m. from a location between 1-2 miles from the blast.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

A combination of human error and equipment failure might have caused a series of explosions that engulfed a propane plant in flames in Tavares, Fla., late Monday, injuring eight people and forcing evacuations for a half-mile around the scene, authorities said.

The explosions began as a fire spread through the Blue Rhino plant,?near Orlando,?about 10:30 p.m. ET, Lake County sheriff's Lt. John Herrell told reporters early Tuesday.

Plant officials say all employees of the plant are accounted for. All of those injured were in the plant when the fire started.

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Tavares Fire Chief?Richard Keith said Tuesday morning that sabotage is not expected. The fire marshal is on site to do a full investigation.?

Residents of the area told NBC station WESH of Orlando that flames from the explosions could be seen for several miles, but there were no reports of damage to the surrounding buildings. ?

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Flames from the Blue Rhino propane plant in Tavares, Fla., seen from the air Monday night.

"It sounds like bombs are going off," Norma Haygood, a nearby resident, told WESH.

No deaths were immediately reported, Herrell said. Three male victims were in critical condition, the Orlando Regional Medical Center, told NBC News.?

Two were airlifted; a third was transported by ambulance. ?

Authorities initially declared a one-mile evacuation zone around the plant, but they later scaled that back to a half-mile, effective until 6 a.m. ET.?

"We feel that there is no longer any danger" to the area around the plant, Herrell said.

Twenty-four or 26 people were scheduled to work the night shift at the 33,000-acre facility, according to plant managers, Herrell said. Authorities initially said 15 people were unaccounted for, but Herrell later said the company's management said that they had accounted for all of the people it knew were in the plant at the time of the initial explosion.

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Some of them showed up at others location, according to Blue Rhino, Herrell said. He said he had no further information on where the others were.

The plant housed about 53,000 20-pound propane cylinders, Herrell said.

"They store the propane cylinders on different parts of the property, and as the fire spread, there were more and more explosions," he said.?

Explosions continued until 1 a.m. ET Tuesday, roughly 2? hours after the first blasts were reported.

Don Ingram, former plant production supervisor at the plant, said his son felt one of the explosions in their home 6 miles away.

Ingram told WESH that the back area of the plant is "lined with propane tanks stacked four or five high on plastic pallets."

"I don't think you fight this fire," he said. "It's just too dangerous."

Blue Rhino is a subsidiary of Ferrellgas Partners, the second-largest distributor of propane in the U.S.

Azhar Fateh of NBC News contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:24 AM EDT

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