11-27-14 subscription scam

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against two Oregon-based publishing groups alleging they ran a subscription scam targeting the elderly.  The DOJ filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Madison. It alleges Liberty Publishers Service and Orbital Publishing Group sent invoices to nursing home residents and the elderly warning them to renew their subscriptions to periodicals such as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel but charged far more than the actual cost.  The lawsuit asks a judge to bar the groups from continuing such violations of Wisconsin consumer law. It also demands forfeitures for each violation as well as for targeting the elderly.