{"id":131171,"date":"2017-10-19T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131171"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T03:30:40","slug":"a-g-office-cease-desist-order-tree-trimming-landscaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131171","title":{"rendered":"ND Attorney General office cease &#038; desist order"},"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 North Dakota Attorney General&#8217;s Office has issued a cease and desist order banning Chris Gustafson of Becker, Minnesota, doing business as Nature\u2019s Way Tree and Landscape, from engaging in contracting in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Consumer Protection Division initiated an investigation in August\u00a0 2017, after receiving a complaint from a North Dakota homeower, who complained that in May 2017, he had paid Gustafson $7,000 to remove trees and perform related cleanup work, but Gustafson did not do all of the work and also damaged the home.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that Gustafson was not a licensed contractor in North Dakota. It also appeared to investigators that Gustafson was engaged in false advertising,\u00a0 distributing flyers representing that he is licensed and insured, when he is not. Gustafson responded to the initial communications from the investigators but ignored all subsequent efforts to contact him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The North Dakota Attorney General&#8217;s Office has issued a cease and desist order banning Chris Gustafson of Becker, Minnesota, doing business as Nature\u2019s Way Tree and Landscape, from engaging in contracting in North Dakota. The Attorney General\u2019s Consumer Protection Division initiated an investigation in August\u00a0 2017, after receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131171","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\/131171","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=131171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131188,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131171\/revisions\/131188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}