{"id":116790,"date":"2017-02-23T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116790"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:05:10","slug":"west-fargo-contractor-sued-consumer-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116790","title":{"rendered":"West Fargo contractor sued, Consumer Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84753\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Consumer Protection division sued Glen Robert Collins of West Fargo doing business as Tri-City Building Services and Collins Handyman &amp; Restoration, for violations of the consumer fraud and contractor licensing laws.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Office news release\u00a0 states that Collins, never had a contractor\u2019s license, solicited advance payments from at least six homeowners but did not purchase the materials or issue refunds, instead using the money for his own personal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The Cass County District Court found Collins in violation of consumer fraud laws and entered a Judgment against him on February 17 for $6,900 in restitution, civil penalties and attorney fees.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is banned from doing any contracting work, including home improvement and home repair jobs, for five years and thereafter cannot apply for a contractor\u2019s license until he has paid the amounts ordered in the judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Collins also has several other money judgments against him for similar previous acts, totaling more than $25,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Consumer Protection division sued Glen Robert Collins of West Fargo doing business as Tri-City Building Services and Collins Handyman &amp; Restoration, for violations of the consumer fraud and contractor licensing laws. The Attorney General\u2019s Office news release\u00a0 states that Collins, never had a contractor\u2019s license, solicited advance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116791,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116790\/revisions\/116791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}