{"id":3024,"date":"2018-03-30T21:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=16b531a8eb6d469aa403cf6b0aba42b4"},"modified":"2018-03-30T21:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:26:30","slug":"canadian-convicted-in-telemarketing-scheme-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/canadian-convicted-in-telemarketing-scheme-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian convicted in telemarketing scheme in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation has been convicted of mail and wire fraud for orchestrating a scheme that prosecutors say defrauded at least 60,000 people out of more than $18 million.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in Los Angeles says a jury found Mark Eldon Wilson of Vancouver guilty on Thursday after a five-day trial.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Wilson masterminded a cross-border scheme that targeted elderly victims with a bogus protection program for credit card fraud.<\/p>\n<p>They say between 1998 and 2001, Wilson&#8217;s telemarketers sold victims non-existent protection for about $300 each.<\/p>\n<p>Victims were targeted in 37 states, including California.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson fought extradition to the U.S. for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 90 years in prison at his sentencing on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &mdash; The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation has been convicted of mail and wire fraud for orchestrating a scheme that prosecutors say defrauded at least 60,000 people out of more than $18 million. The U.S. attorney&rsquo;s office in Los Angeles says a jury found Mark Eldon Wilson of Vancouver guilty on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}