BILLING LEADS TO CHARGES; OFFICIAL DENIES FIRM DID WRONG.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer VALENCIA - The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. City Attorney's Office filed charges Thursday against the president and vice president of a Valencia-based company, accusing them of billing companies for orders they never placed. Daniel Mark Lynch Mark Lynch (born 2 September 1981 in Manchester) is an English footballer currently playing for Yeovil Town. His regular position is at right-back. Previously a promising junior with Manchester United, for whom he made one senior appearance, against Deportivo de La Coruña in , 45, of Canyon Country, president of International Copy Products Distributors, Inc., and Vice President John Harry Dougherty, 57, of Newhall, were charged with four misdemeanor misdemeanor, in law, a minor crime, in contrast to a felony. At common law a misdemeanor was a crime other than treason or a felony. Although it might be a grave offense, it did not affect the feudal bond or take away the offender's property. By the 19th cent. counts of false and misleading advertising and sending a document that looks like a bill to a location that has not solicited products. The products included ribbons or ink supplies to refill refill noun A second allotment of a prescription agent obtained from a pharmacy, which is allowed by the original prescription verb Pharmacology To obtain more of a particular drug, after the initially prescribed amount of the agent has been used or postage meter machines. Dougherty insisted the company had done nothing wrong, and said he was surprised that he and Lynch faced charges. ``It's the first I heard of it,'' he said. Dougherty said employees from the 16-year-old company confirm every order on the phone and provide customers with confirmation numbers, adding that it is possible that a bill would get separated from the order en route to the business. The two men each face up to four years in county jail and $20,000 fines if convicted. They are scheduled to appear Feb. 29 for arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted at Los Angeles Superior Court. Prosecutors allege To state, recite, assert, or charge the existence of particular facts in a Pleading or an indictment; to make an allegation. allege v. that one or more telemarketers from the company called various businesses, obtained information about the type of postal meter equipment that the company used, noted the name of the person they spoke with and sent a bill to the business with the name of the employee that was contacted. While the company does appear to supply postal meter supplies, two companies that received bills did not purchase the items. Nevertheless, the companies mailed checks to two Van Nuys locations, Deputy City Attorney P. Greg Parham said. The case was submitted to the City Attorney's Office in late 1999 after an investigation conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Parham said. The charges stem from reports that false orders from Copy Products were placed to three companies: Mason Shoe Company in Wisconsin, Delco Associates in Connecticut and Houston Lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Prosecutors allege that on March 3, 1999, a bill in the amount of $203.09 was sent to Houston Lumber from the Postage Meter Distribution Center and on March 16, a bill for the same amount was sent to the same company from Central Mail and Supply. No products were sent with the bills, Parham said. On March 18, Delco Associates in Connecticut received a bill in the amount of $203.09 for an order that had not been placed. However, in that case, Delco Associates did receive a product along with the invoice, Parham said. On March 31, the Mason Shoe Company in Wisconsin received a bill in the amount of $213.79 for an order that was not placed. No shipment accompanied that bill, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the City Attorney's Office. |
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