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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: "Quality Learing Center" raided
Date: 04/28/26 12:54 PM
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...that FBI and HSI agents are currently raiding 20+ locations in the Minneapolis, MN

If fraud is proven, I hope the "JCs" in charge go to prison.

I was delighted to see "The Scooter Store" get busted. But, according to the net sifter, the "JCs" who ran the company, and personally profited from the fraud, were neither imprisoned or fined.

The Scooter Store, Ltd. (stylized as The SCOOTER Store) was a privately company based in New Braunfels, Texas which sold power mobility products, including mobility scooters, motorized wheelchairs and related products and accessories. The company served 48 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

Following a raid by the FBI in February 2013,[2][3] The Scooter Store filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and ceased all cash sales to the public.


en.wikipedia.org - The Scooter Store

iirc, that scam involved the company having a fleet of scummy Doctors on retainer, who would fill out the necessary forms declaring a scooter to be "medically necessary" for anyone who wanted one, so Medicare would pay for it. The company was put out of business, but no-one running the scam went to prison. This is Shinyland. "Must not burden the JCs".

Steve
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