http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2003/October/20/news/ExArkansan.html
Ex-Arkansan Helps With Case
By Rob Moritz
arkansas news bureau <[email hidden]>
LITTLE ROCK - An Arkansas native was involved in helping the Arizona
attorney general's office seek legal action against a salesman who promoted
medical benefits of a mattress pad in that state.
That same salesman, Thorsten Wietschel, has been charged with criminal fraud
in California and is being investigated in Arkansas.
Little Rock-born Pat George of Camp Verde, Ariz., was in Springdale last
week helping her sick sister when she read about Wietschel being
investigated by the Arkansas attorney general's office in The Morning News.
"Wow, the creep has spread his tentacles here in Arkansas now," she said.
Attorney General Mike Beebe's office announced last week that his office is
investigating Wietschel after he held two seminars in central Arkansas
promoting the medical benefits of a magnetic mattress pad.
Wietschel is charged in California with making false claims about the
product, and the Arizona attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against
him in July in an effort to stop him from selling the mattress pads in that
state.
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