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3 Founded By: 3 : Network Information Access : 3 Mother Earth BBS 3
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3 Guardian Of Time 3D: 28AUG90 :D3 <TEMP DOWN> 3
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3 Judge Dredd 3 : Judge Dredd : 3 (713)-ITS-DOWN 3
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@DDDDDDDDD6 Illinois Bell Employee Given Bribe :DDDDDDDDY
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Denise Wilder, 37, has been employed for some time now by Illinois
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Bell Telephone Company in the Chicago area as a customer service
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representative. Like a lot of us working people, Ms. Wilder usually
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manages to make do with the paycheck she receives, while always
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thinking about ways to get more money.
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But Ms. Wilder had an all-to-common problem: she got over her head in
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debt, and began having trouble meeting obligations to her creditors.
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Gradually she was catching up, but one of her creditors got impatient
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and decided to place her with a collection agency.
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L & P Financial Adjusters, 6326 North Cicero Avenue in Chicago was the
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agency given the assignment of collecting a bill from Ms. Wilder. One
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characteristic of most collection agencies, including L & P, is their
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vigorous attention to their duty. Before long, Ms. Wilder was
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receiving frequent calls at work from the agency, demanding payment.
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One time, the collector even threatened to attach her wages if she did
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not pay.
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Then on August 8, Ms. Wilder recieved a call from the owner of L & P
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himself, Mr. Allan M. Michell. Michell, 39, of 553 Cobblestone Lane in
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Buffalo Grove, IL had an interesting proposition for Ms. Wilder, and
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he wondered if they could get together and talk about it. Ms. Wilder
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agreed to meet Mr. Michell to see what he had on his mind.
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Mr. Michell laid it all out: He needed a regular contact inside Bell
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to provide his agency with non-published phone numbers of debtors in
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the area. In particular, he had a list of 91 names. Could Ms. Wilder
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get him the current phone numbers and addresses for these people? In
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exchange for her cooperation, Mr. Michell offered to ignore any
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collection claims that might come in against her at his agency, and he
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would give her $50 extra for her trouble.
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Ms. Wilder thought about it. It seemed easy enough, and the extra
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money would be good to have ... but after thinking about it awhile
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longer she decided to tell her supervisors about it instead. Soon she
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was talking to Illinois Bell security representatives about what had
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taken place.
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Security asked her to go along with it, to help 'set the guy up' in a
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trap, and Ms. Wilder agreed. She met Mr. Michell in a restaurant near
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the office where she worked, and received a list of the 91 names he
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was seeking. Security was nearby to observe the transaction, and
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assist Ms. Wilder if anything went wrong.
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On this past Tuesday night, August 21, Ms. Wilder met Mr. Michell in
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the parking lot at the telephone building, 318 West Adams Street in
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downtown Chicago. She handed him a 'print out of what he wanted' -- or
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so he thought! -- and he handed her fifty dollars. Of course the
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security guys were nearby, watching it all, along with Chicago Police
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Sgt. Robert Gurwig, and detective James Mack.
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When Ms. Wilder opened the car door to step out and leave, the police
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officers rushed in and arrested Mr. Michell. Freed on $10,000 bond --
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meaning, under Illinois law that $1000 in actual cash must be
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presented -- Mr. Michell appeared on Wednesday morning before Judge
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Dennis Dernbach, charged with one count of computer fraud and one
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count of commercial bribery. Judge Dernbach found probable cause to
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hold Mr. Michell for trial, and the preliminary hearing is scheduled
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for September 25.
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On conviction, Mr. Michell will note that Illinois law provides that
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his collection agency license will be pulled. Collection agencies here
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are regulated closely by the state, and he will be, very simply, out
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of business. Of course, under the Constitution of the United States,
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he has to be presumed innocent of the charges against him until he has
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his day in court.
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Well, thats interesting. Watch out for those SWB employees. Oh and to those of
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you that don't know yet, Dr. Ripco is running another board that is 'devoted to
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stopping the misinformation campaign that the government is doing in regards to
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computer crimes and incidents' (best way I've see to put it) so give it a call.
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Its Labor Day weekend and time to hit the beach again (babes and waves), so
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later all. Surfs Up.
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[OTHER WORLD BBS]
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