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What do Steven Slater, the Barefoot Bandit, Wells Fargo and Apple all have in common?

What do the ex-Jet Blue attendant, the Barefoot Bandit, Wells Fargo and Apple have in common? Each has left a cultural mark on the summer of 2010. But which did the most damage? How would you rank their acts of greed in terms of harm done?

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Meet the dog that hates smart meter installers

As smart meters make their way across America, installers climbing over fences are angering homeowners and their dogs. The dogs sometimes bite them. The homeowners wish they could. Here’s a story about one dog in Texas.

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The alarm salesman who rang the wrong doorbell

Ringing the doorbell of Dave Lieber, The Watchdog investigative columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, isn’t the smart thing when you are an unlicensed salesman peddling false information about a product that you know nothing about. It happened here.

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Is Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation headed to China?

Watchdog Nation goes to China? Domain squatters are trying to scam Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation with the popular Chinese domain registration scam. Don’t they know who they’re messin’ with? This gives Watchdog Nation an opportunity to spread the word about this common scam.

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Fighting financial exploitation of elderly

Turns out there’s a medical reason why 1 out of 5 Americans say they have been the victim of financial investment fraud. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine say that older adults, due to changes in their cognitive reasoning, are more likely to take risks. Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation examines this latest medical development in elder investment fraud and financial exploitation.

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