A broadband adviser selected by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to run a federal advisory committee was arrested last week on claims she tricked investors into pouring money into a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The adviser, Elizabeth Pierce, is the former chief executive of Quintillion, an Alaska-based fiber optic cable provider operating out of Anchorage. In her capacity as CEO, Pierce allegedly raised more than $250 million from two New York-based investment companies using forged contracts with other companies guaranteeing hundreds of millions of dollars in future revenue. Pierce resigned from Quintillion in August of last year, and she stepped down from her role in Pai’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) the following month.
“As it turned out, those sales agreements were worthless because the customers had not signed them,” US attorney Geoffrey Berman said in prepared remarks, as reported by the WSJ. “Instead, as alleged, Pierce had forged counter-party signatures on contract after contract. As a result of Pierce’s deception, the investment companies were left with a system that is worth far less than Pierce had led them to believe.”
Not enough people seem to want to bother with “Battle For The Net, even though it’s super duper easy to use Battle For The Net because they made it easy for you, and it’s so quick to use because of how fast the internet is right now since the FCC haven’t destroyed the internet yet.
If you have a cellphone, they will text you and tell you what to do. They will give you a number to call and tell you what to do. The script basically is
“I Support strong Net Neutrality rules. Could you use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC’s appeal?“
Can’t get texts? Worried that you’ll miss the phone number in the email? No problem! It’s (202) 930-9322 and you should be updated fairly regularly on both email and text. (Provided you have either one.)
This takes maybe ten minutes at most. Five at least.
You can also “share” this on Twitter and Facebook without having to worry about what to say- it will provide exactly what you need to say for you.
Scroll down a bit and insert the state where you live and you’ll see
All you have to do is click on their faces and it will automatically send you to Twitter with a Tweet ready for them.
(It’s different for people who are voting for it.)
Again, this should take maybeee… Thirty seconds at most?
