Complaint Review: Fabulous Flashcast - Flashcast Kids - Carl Ken Carranza - Fabulousflashcast.com - Flashcastkids.com

**PRESS RELEASE**
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
CHILDRENS TALENT SERVICE CONVICTED OF DECEPTIVE  BUSINESS PRACTICES
LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles City Attorneys Office today announced it has secured criminal convictions of the owner and operator of two Los Angeles talent services -- Scooters Fab Flashcast a childrens talent broker -- and Model Management, Inc. a talent agency for models -- for deceptive business practices, following a successful prosecution by Deputy City Attorney Mark Lambert of the Consumer Protection Unit.
Scooters operator, Carl Ken Carranza, and its owner, Flashcast Companies Inc., each pled no contest to two counts of false advertising and were placed on 36 months probation and sentenced to 90 days in jail or 600 hours of community service. Carranza and the Corporation were also ordered to pay $17,145 in restitution to 11 victims, not to attempt to collect any portion of outstanding fees from persons who notify the court by November 5 and to prominently display on future advertisements that the company is not a free service. Located in UniversalCity, Scooters Fab Flashcast now doing business as Scooters Kidz issued misleading advertisements primarily on the internet at craigslist.org appearing to offer a no-cost talent search for babies and young children for jobs in modeling, catalogs and television commercials. Parents responding to the advertisement spent hours at an audition only to discover that the company was in fact a service offering to obtain a licensed talent agent for their child at a cost of $1,495.
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