Viable Owner/CEO John TC Yeh Gets Nine Years For Fraud

VIDEO: Founder of Viable Deaf services company gets nine years for fraud.

TRENTON, N.J. - Yeh and his brother also ordered to pay $20M each.



A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced John T.C. Yeh, former CEO of Rockville Deaf services business Viable, to nine years in prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $20 million for his role in a multimillion-dollar government fraud case.



His brother, former Viable vice president Joseph Yeh, received a prison sentence of 55 months on Wednesday and also was ordered by Judge Joel A. Pisano to pay $20 million in restitution.



John TC Yeh's Statement At The Court. John TC Yeh wishes to share the statement he gave at the court with everyone.

In November 2009, John and Joseph Yeh were among 26 people nationwide to be indicted for conspiring to defraud the Federal Communications Commission’s Video Relay Service program, which helps Deaf people communicate, by billing the government for millions of dollars in illegitimate calls.



They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud in October 2010... Read more: gazette.net/article/founder-of-rockville-deaf-services-company-gets-nine-years-for-fraud/

Scammers Posing Deaf Customers Target Local Businesses

VIDEO: I Team 10 investigation scammers posing Deaf customers target local businesses.



NEW YORK CITY - I-Team 10 investigation from the NBC reports. It's a new twist on an old credit card scam and it's really repugnant. These schemers are posing as customers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and using a telephone relay service to try to exploit these businesses.

The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. Visit http://www.sec.gov/ for more informations. SOURCE



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UNITED STATES - SEC Investor Alert Regarding Web-Based Scheme Targeting Deaf Investors: The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has charged an Internet-based investment company, Imperia Invest IBC ("Imperia"), with securities fraud for soliciting several million dollars from U.S. investors and promising guaranteed annual returns in excess of 1.2% per day while in reality siphoning the funds into foreign bank accounts and not paying any money back to investors.

TEXAS - A Texas man who allegedly solicited $3.45 million from more than 7000 Deaf investors before securities regulators stopped him last year has been charged with fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Jody Dunn... Read more: Texan Defrauded Deaf Investors Out of $3.45M -investmentnews.com



WISCONSIN - A multi-million-dollar international swindle targeting Deaf investors that recently drew federal warnings has snagged at least a dozen Wisconsin residents, investigators at the Department of Financial Institutions report... Read more: Swindle Targeting Deaf Investors Ensnares Wisconsin Residents -madison.com



NEW YORK - I-Team 10 investigation from the NBC report. It's a new twist on an old credit card scam and it's really repugnant. These schemers are posing as customers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and using a telephone relay service to try to exploit these businesses... Read more: I-Team 10 investigation: Scammers Posing as Deaf Customers; Target Local Businesses -whec.com



NORTH CAROLINA - A common scam lately — known as the “overpayment scam” — happens when a person places an item for sale online (or through a print publication such as the Bolivar Herald-Free Press that also places its classified ads online) and then receives a call from someone through the Telecommunication Device for the Deaf relay service, or TTY, wanting to purchase the item... Read more: The Scam Artist’s Next Victim — Don’t Let It Be You -bolivarmonews.com



FBI GOV. - The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at www.ic3.gov lists 18 Internet crime schemes and that is just schemes related to the Internet, not including schemes that are carried out by phone or U.S. Mail.



The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. Visit http://www.sec.gov/

Cochlear Implant Failures Lawsuits & AG Bell

VIDEO: This story covers the cochlear implant failures, lawsuits & AG Bell issues in American Sign Language.



Advanced Bionics had to pay $1,100,000 and their ceo was fined $75,000 Advanced bionics sued for violating FDA regulations re: CI safety by Weitz and Luxenberg - 2nd suit in process - Teresa Curtin Deaf lawyer. Meanwhile Advanced Bionics is at the top of the AG Bell Assoc homepage.

Cochlear Implant Failures Lawsuits & AG Bell.

Find http://www.weitzlux.com/failed-cochlear-implants_1937570.html for more information on the lawsuits.



Potential symptoms of defective cochlear implants include:

# A sudden sensation of discomfort or pain;

# A sudden loud noise or popping sound;

# An intermittent functioning;

# A complete loss of sound;

# In infants or children, an unwillingness to wear the external headpiece, crying or fussiness when the sound processor is turned on, lack of expected progress or diminished progress in achieving speech/language milestones, or apparent loss of audiological benefit.

Find http://www.petitiononline.com/AFA62509/petition.html - kudos link to AFA petition calling for an indep and impartial invest. into CI. to folks who are standing against falsehoods and time to uncover the true failures. Also a question about remote control CIs and what is our role and responsibilities here?

for more info on the true failures. Find http://handeyes.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/the-truth-about-failures/