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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBroadband advisor picked by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai arrested on fraud charges
The Verge is just posting this story, but it's from last week. Just too much corruption to keep track of.
Broadband advisor picked by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai arrested on fraud charges
A broadband advisor selected by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to run a federal advisory committee was arrested last week on claims she tricked investors into pouring money into a multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The advisor, Elizabeth Pierce, is the former chief executive of Quintillion, an Alaska-based fiber optic cable provider operating out of Anchorage. In her capacity as CEO, Pierce allegeledy raised more than $250 million from two New York-based investment companies using forged contracts with other companies guaranteeing hundreds of millions of dollars in future revenue. Pierce resigned from Quintillion in August of last year, and she stepped down from her role in Pais Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) the following month.
"Pai picked Pierce last year to chair his newly created broadband advisory group"
As it turned out, those sales agreements were worthless because the customers had not signed them, US attorney Geoffrey Berman said in prepared remarks, as reported by the WSJ. Instead, as alleged, Pierce had forged counter-party signatures on contract after contract. As a result of Pierces deception, the investment companies were left with a system that is worth far less than Pierce had led them to believe. Pierce was trying to raise money to help build out a fiber optic system that would wire Alaska with high-speed internet and better help connect it to networks in other US states. Pierce was charged with wire fraud last Thursday and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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Broadband advisor picked by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai arrested on fraud charges (Original Post)
Julian Englis
Apr 2018
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)1. K&FuckingR!
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)2. Kick
Wednesdays
(17,383 posts)3. K&R nt
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)4. Imagine that
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)5. too much chaos. story almost got lost. thank u
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)6. Cons of a feather flock together.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)7. Only the best people. nt
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)8. Colour me stunned.
Do you have a colour for ennui? Maybe that instead.
JI7
(89,252 posts)9. i only read the 2nd half of it at first
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)10. K and R
Im shocked, shocked, I tell you.
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)11. if this had been Obama.... n/t
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)12. Looking forward to seeing this story on
American Greed in the near future.