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The New York Times reports:
If you owned a phone in America over the last 40 years, there is a good chance you got a call from Richard L. Zeitlin. He ran a telemarketing empire out of Las Vegas, using computers that mimicked human callers to raise money for charitable and political causes. Police and police dogs. Vietnam veterans and breast cancer victims. Missing children and disabled children and children with cancer.
He raised more than $145 million, mainly small gifts from small donors, but he kept at least 80 percent of it. In court on Tuesday, Mr. Zeitlin apologized for misleading people and said he was a changed man. “You have been a liar your whole life,” U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said. “And I’m not persuaded that I haven’t just heard more of it.” He sentenced Mr. Zeitlin to 10 years in federal prison, and a $8.9 million fine. Mr. Zeitlin shuffled out of court, shoulders slumped and hair gone gray.
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The DOJ’s press release is really something.
NEW: Richard Zeitlin, an infamous telemarketer who kept 80+% of the money he raised for charities, is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/u…— David Fahrenthold (@fahrenthold.bsky.social) December 10, 2024 at 4:34 PM