The FBI and US Department of Homeland Security recently honoured two investigators from Ontario’s Consumer Protection Branch for their part in helping crack several North American consumer scams.
Helen Hatton and Dermot Jennings worked on these consumer scam cases as part of the Toronto Strategic Partnership on cross-border fraud, which includes Canada’s Competition Bureau, several police services units and key US agencies.
The Partnership managed to shut down a number of criminal “boiler rooms”, or specific locations from which frauds are perpetrated. Many of the key players involved in these crimes were sentenced to five and 10-year prison terms.
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