{"id":11640,"date":"2011-11-07T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2011-11-07T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:44:37","slug":"dependable-locksmith-back-in-the-business-of-deceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/dependable-locksmith-back-in-the-business-of-deceit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dependable Locksmith Back in The Business of Deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was surprised to learn<\/a>\u00a0that Dependable Locksmith, raided<\/a>\u00a0in late 2009 by the Feds\u00a0and sued<\/a>\u00a0by the attorney general in Missouri earlier that year , was still in business and still using their “standard” business model of bait and switch. It does not speak well of our regulatory or legal environment that known crooks and charlatans with a profile like theirs could continue to operate in the exact same way.<\/p>\n

It is unclear to me how folks in Orlando are finding them, that wasn’t made clear in the Action 9 story<\/a>, but it doesn’t appear to be Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was surprised to learn\u00a0that Dependable Locksmith, raided\u00a0in late 2009 by the Feds\u00a0and sued\u00a0by the attorney general in Missouri earlier that year , was still in business and still using their “standard” business model of bait and switch. It does not speak well of our regulatory or legal environment that known crooks and charlatans with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t