Well, this just further proves that real estate is the meanest profession. Dean "Cookie Kwan" Isenberg was arrested a week ago and charged with "
The Manhattan District Attorney's office is prosecuting a Bloomingdale's salesperson for running a month-long bogus gift card scam that netted $34,515 from the store, says the NY Sun.It says Bloomingdale's sales receipts were the key element of Ms. Ng's alleged scheme.
After a shopper made a purchase, she would regenerate the receipt. She would then make phony merchandise returns and use the credit to create the gift cards, according to the complaint. Between September 26 and October 3, Ms. Ng is said to have used 36 separate sales receipts to create the fraudulent cards.
A loss prevention officer at Bloomingdale's informed police of Ms. Ng's scam, and she was arrested on November 7. At the time of her arrest, police found six of the gift cards in Ms. Ng's wallet, according to the complaint.
Ms. Ng was charged with a series of crimes at her arraignment the following day, including third-degree grand larceny and second-degree forgery, an official at the Manhattan district attorney's office said. The dishonest employee could get seven years in prison for the scheme. We wonder if this person was a shopping addict like 
CNN has a hilarious article about shopping safety that you should certainly read before you hit the mall this weekend for last-minute gifts. We're all for safety, but according to this article, letting your senior citizen 
Investigators for the Metropolitan Transit Authority in NYC gave 26 items to various transit workers in order to see how long it would take for the items to show up at New York City Transit's lost property claim office. Trouble is, only 3 items showed up at all, and the MTA wasn't expecting that.
"Obviously, the results are disturbing," said the inspector general, Barry L. Kluger. He added that the investigation was not meant "as a sting operation" and that it was not possible to know if the missing items were stolen by transit employees or simply "wound up in the bottom of a drawer or in a wastebasket."
The report said that the transit agency's lost property unit received more than 8,000 items each year and that only about 18 percent wound up back in the hands of their owners. Most unclaimed items were eventually auctioned off, the report said.
The audit also uncovered a chaotic system for handling property once it is turned in, with few safeguards. Often it can take weeks or months for lost items to make their way to the property unit's office where people can claim them.
Then there was the case of the lost earring. After it was found, a bus employee put the earring, which was set with what looked like a diamond, into an envelope for transfer to the lost property unit, the report said. But the envelope arrived empty. As if that wasn't bad enough, the NYPD is conducting something called "Operation Lucky Bag" in which they drop wallets and bags at subway stations and arrest anyone who picks them up and doesn't walk immediately to a transit worker to turn them over. Over 
Verizon is finally installing FiOS in my area. But I'll never use it. I'll never sign up for another Verizon account in my life, and I'm encouraging my parents to change to a different service when their Verizon cell contracts end soon. Over the course of eight months, I've become completely appalled at the horrible customer service I've gotten from that company.