Federal prosecutors have indicted three executives of PageTurner Press and Media in what authorities describe as a sophisticated fraud scheme that fleeced authors out of millions between 2017 and 2024.
According to the federal indictment filed December 20 in the Southern District of California, Gemma Traya Austin, Michael Cris Traya Sordilla, and Bryan Navales Tarosa operated "a book publishing scam targeting elderly victims throughout the United States." — Read the rest
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