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- Judges and juries in several cases have found that the company has conned or misled landlords by using shell companies.
The U.S. House of Representatives' small-business committee studied the franchise
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They’ve taken a healthy company and because they can’t sell it in its present form, they are sawing it in half. These are cynical, self-serving tricks that give bankruptcy, insolvency
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The FTC says Mr. Winslow engaged in an overall ""web of deceit,"" including a shell corporation, phantom offices and bounced checks. An FTC employee, posing as a potential franchisee, tape-recorded
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(industry, banks, lawyers), Put personal assets in someone else's name, Capital flight, Integral part of the deception, Shell companies, Physical health deterioration, Industry in disrepute, Can't
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the billable hour clock
Settlement just covers fees
Sham corporate structures designed to evade responsibility
Shell companies
Trademark re-acquired by franchisor after insolvency
Trial decision always
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Nothing is going right for Krispy Kreme: its sales are falling, some franchisees are in financial trouble, and the company has been tainted by an investigation into its accounting practices. Its
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cent stake in the company to CAI Partners and Co. LP, a Wall Street investment firm, for $45 million.
By then, Country Style had ballooned to more than 350 locations, including at Sunoco and Shell gas
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…a franchisee in Hamilton, recalls that a uniformed company rep came to visit her husband's hospital room while he was dying of colon cancer at the age of 38. During the last four days of her
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is not an employee of the British company: "We try to tell them that BP is not us. We are a franchisee."
More than 90% of BP service stations in the US are independently owned but tied to a long-term deal requiring
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of the bank through the procurement and processing of multiple, bogus loans.”
Kirchner and others cooked up shell companies and fake invoices, plus fake photos of equipment. The bank alleges Kirchner received
http://www.wikidfranchise.org/20101126-16m-fraud
