{"id":938,"date":"2008-07-11T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/209.197.111.4\/legal-news\/?p=938"},"modified":"2009-10-22T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:45:26","slug":"travel-company-sued-by-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/travel-company-sued-by-attorney-general.html","title":{"rendered":"Travel Company Sued By Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet based travel company is being sued by the attorney general, Jerry Brown, who has accused it being nothing more than a pyramid scheme, which benefits just a few people and leaves everyone else with nothing. Brown is seeking over twenty five million dollars in fines and restitution from the company, YourTravelBiz.com.<\/p>\n<p>The company has recruited many thousands of members, by promising them that they can earn big bucks by setting up their own personal travel agency websites, according to a report. Last year the firm&#8217;s profits were up by around one hundred and seventy seven percent compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Brown stated that the business was &#8220;immensely profitable to a few individuals on top and a complete rip-off for most everyone else.&#8221; He added: &#8220;Today&#8217;s lawsuit seeks to shut down the company&#8217;s unlawful operation before more people are exploited by the scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, officials from the firm have described the company as &#8220;a provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives.&#8221;<br \/>\nAn Internet based travel company is being sued by the attorney general, Jerry Brown, who has accused it being nothing more than a pyramid scheme, which benefits just a few people and leaves everyone else with nothing. Brown is seeking over twenty five million dollars in fines and restitution from the company, YourTravelBiz.com.<\/p>\n<p>The company has recruited many thousands of members, by promising them that they can earn big bucks by setting up their own personal travel agency websites, according to a report. Last year the firm&#8217;s profits were up by around one hundred and seventy seven percent compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Brown stated that the business was &#8220;immensely profitable to a few individuals on top and a complete rip-off for most everyone else.&#8221; He added: &#8220;Today&#8217;s lawsuit seeks to shut down the company&#8217;s unlawful operation before more people are exploited by the scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, officials from the firm have described the company as &#8220;a provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet based travel company is being sued by the attorney general, Jerry Brown, who has accused it being nothing more than a pyramid scheme, which benefits just a few people and leaves everyone else with nothing. Brown is seeking over twenty five million dollars in fines and restitution from the company, YourTravelBiz.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalinfo.com\/legal-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}