Word: jacksonism
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...Despite what you may have heard, that check is not a refund - it's an extremely high-interest loan. And according to U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Jackson, the nation's largest income-tax preparation company has been acting "maliciously, willfully and in bad faith" by advertising its Rapid Refund service to its customers, when in fact the company was simply handing out loans in the amount of the customer's tax refund. Some of those customers paid dearly for the perceived convenience of their "rapid refund," paying annual percentage rates as high as 500 percent...
...ruling, handed down Monday in Norfolk, Va., bars H&R Block from using misleading copy to advertise the Rapid Refund service, and orders the company to pay $500,000 to the local competitor that brought the suit. Judge Jackson gave Block until March 9 to come up with new advertising copy to replace what he called "offensive" terminology...
...Jackson was fiercely critical of Block, saying the company had formally agreed in one state to stop using false advertising tactics and then "simply took their advertisements to a new jurisdiction...
...Jesse Jackson personally appealed to Clinton to commute the sentence of Melvin Reynolds, a former Illinois Congressman serving seven years for corruption and for having sex with an underage campaign worker. Other Jackson associates who received clemency include John H. Bustamante, 70, a former adviser who pleaded guilty to fraud in 1993, and Dorothy Rivers, a former Operation PUSH official serving six years for embezzling more than a million dollars in federal aid for homeless children. She will be freed from prison next year...
...Bush regime is serious about reaching out to blacks, it should join Sensenbrenner and Jackson-Lee to push for NOFEAR's enactment. The administration took a good first step earlier this month when the new EPA leader, former New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman, honored Browner's pledge that the EPA would not fight the verdict in Coleman-Adebayo's lawsuit...