Brickbat: For Services Rendered

Ryan Mackay / Dreamstime

When drivers get into an accident in Newburgh Heights, Ohio, the city bills them or their insurance company hundreds of dollars for police services, even if the cops never respond. And the city continues to send them bills until they pay. It's all quite official looking, and there's no indication that there's no legal obligation for them to pay. But there isn't. The city calls it "soft billing." The town has population of just over 2,000, so most of the people billed are not residents.

Comments

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

"soft billing"

I think there's a typo in there. Somewhere between the B and the Ls, I think...

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[Jerryskids]

Soft billing? We occasionally get fake invoices for office supplies from scammers, this sounds like the same thing.

[Griffin3]

It's mail fraud when a non-governmental entity does it. How is this different?

[sarcasmic]

It isn't rape if the penis is not erect.

[Longtobefree]

Assault with a dead weapon?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hard bilking.

[Adans smith]

The mob must always get it's cut.

[Ken Shultz]

Mail fraud is a federal crime

"There are two elements in mail fraud: (1) having devised or intending to devise a scheme to defraud (or to perform specified fraudulent acts), and (2) use of the mail for the purpose of executing, or attempting to execute, the scheme (or specified fraudulent acts)."

940. 18 U.S.C. Section 1341?Elements of Mail Fraud

----U.S. Department of Justice

https://tinyurl.com/y8p476lx

[sarcasmic]

Since when did the law apply to government?

[Don't look at me.]

Laws? What laws? We don't need no stinking laws!

[An Owl Named Dur]

This is absolutely mail fraud when done by a private entity. There are people right now sitting in federal prison for precisely this sh@t.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

Isn't this one of those evil corporations that unnecessarily steal money from people? This would never happen in the public sector.

[Longtobefree]

Sometimes I really miss the sixties.
"You can't fight city hall, but you can burn it down"

Welcome to the revolution