Legal Opinion
United States v. Peterson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 8, 2001No. 99-20165PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LINDSAY, District Judge:
I. BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
This case involves a telemarketing operation called American Land Liquidators (“ALL”), which solicited fees from landowners to advertise their land for sale and put them together with buyers. ALL collected more than $9,000,000 in fees from about 27,000 property owners, between June 1992 and May 1995, when the business was shut down by the government investigation. It spent less than 3% of the income on advertising the properties to prospective buyers. Fewer than than 1% of the property owners who paid fees to ALL sold their property…
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