The only crime Johnson was convicted of was providing false information to banks. Legal experts believe that had Johnson been convicted of the rest of the charges in his indictment that he would have received over 30 years in prison.
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The Jeremy Johnson case created case law for criminal prosecutions of free trial operators that utilize “signers” to load balance transactions in their negative options schemes.
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In many cases, free trials pushing products like HNB’s Garcinia Wow either lose their ability to process credit cards or receive civil fines from the FTC/State AGs.
With assets captured and injunctions preventing future operations, you would think that the operation would stop, right? Wrong.