Friday, February 15, 2002

"It looks
like
the Florida Attorney General's
office is closing
in
on the fraud-by-the-book
that is Miss Cleo,". "In
effort to 'learn the truth' about Miss
Cleo and her operation
, Florida's AG has subpoenaed her birth records and
business documents linking her to the telescam megacompany Access Resource
Services. ARS is involved in pending suits
in states across
the nation. So apparently Miss Cleo's given name is Youree Harris, and she's from Bronx,
NY, not Jamaica.  Are these superficial lies enough to destroy her
credibility?  How is it that she had any in the first place? If ARS
is able to make $400 million a year in this business and fight and/or settle
lawsuits in a dozen states, how will this revelation damage them? Their
business practices are certainly not ethical, but they are also obviously not
illegal enough to get them shut down. But so what if Miss Cleo is nothing but a character?  So are: Betty
Crocker
, Aunt
Jemima
, Ronald McDonald,
and the Marlboro Man.
Can you really make the argument that what Miss Cleo does to people's lives is
any more dangerous than cheeseburgers and cigarettes?"

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