---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20170720233348.GA3679@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:33:48 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: He didn't like the AT&T trucks parked in front of his home - so he shot them Jorje Jove didn't like the AT&T work trucks in front of his Hialeah home Wednesday morning. So, he retrieved his revolver and began shooting out the tires and the engine, police said. Though Jove began firing to kill only a vehicle, a Hialeah sergeant says he saw Jove fire at an AT&T worker in a raised bucket lift. Hialeah police arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm and criminal mischief. He posted $30,000 bond. Police seized the handgun from Jove, who doesn't have a concealed weapons permit, according to the arrest affidavit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/hialeah/article162574858.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170720232904.GA3636@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:29:05 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Video appears to show onetime CenturyLink diversity chief giving anti-gay sermon A three-year-old video posted on YouTube appears to show CenturyLink's onetime chief diversity officer delivering an impassioned sermon about Jesus' opposition to homosexuality, among other things, before church congregants. The man told audience members that Jesus would give them the strength to speak out against evil in the 2014 video, titled "JT Men's Day Elder Odell Riley Part 2." The man appears to be Odell Riley, who has served as CenturyLink's chief diversity officer since 2010, according to a LinkedIn page bearing his name. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/06/centurylink_anti-gay_executive.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170720231215.GA3554@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:12:15 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink is being sued by everyone over deceptive billing By Chris Millis It's not been a good month for CenturyLink. In the last few weeks, a former sales rep turned whistleblower filed a lawsuit against the company, a video surfaced showing the company's former Chief Diversity Officer going on a homophobic rant, and a class-action lawsuit was filed over deceptive billing practices. To add serious legal insult to injury, the state of Minnesota is joining the party, and has filed a lawsuit alleging the telecoms company engaged in unfair billing practices. http://bgr.com/2017/07/13/centurylink-lawsuit-worst-internet-service-provider-2017/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170720231909.GA3573@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:19:09 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink Now Under Fire on All Sides For Fraudulent Billing Last month, a CenturyLink whistleblower revealed what they claimed was a systemic practice of fraudulently over-billing customers at the telco. The insider stated it was standard practice to routinely charge customers for services they neither ordered nor wanted in order to help employees meet unrealistic sales targets. Heidi Heiser, who worked from home for CenturyLink as a customer service and sales agent from August 2015 until October 2016, sued the company, stating she was fired shortly after pointing it out this fraudulent billing [to] company CEO Glen Post. Since Heiser's initial lawsuit, numerous states have since come forth to join a growing class action against the company, each state adding numerous stories supporting the claim CenturyLink has been routinely over-billing consumers. Arizona, for example, just added its name to the growing class action. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CenturyLink-Now-Under-Fire-on-All-Sides-For-Fraudulent-Billing-139943 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 21 Jul 2017