https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Redacted-Biden-Call.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\nInvestigators traced the calls to a shady telecoms provider called Lingo, which has also gone by Americatel, BullsEyeComm, Clear Choice Communications, Excel Telecommunications, Impact Telecom, Matrix Business Technologies, Startec Global Communications, Trinsic Communications, and VarTec Telecom. The FCC notes that the company (whatever its name really is) has been doing illegal call operations for years.<\/p>\n
Lingo, however, was only doing the transmission of the calls on behalf of Life Corporation, a Texas company owned by one Walter Monk and also no stranger to illegal activity. The FCC notes that it cited Life and Monk in 2003 \u201cfor delivering apparently illegal prerecorded and unsolicited advertisements to residential lines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Common sense suggests that if they were doing it in 2003 and they were doing it last month, they might have also done it a few times in between \u2014 but that is a matter for investigators.<\/p>\n
Life Corp\u2019s website isn\u2019t much help; they have been \u201csuccessfully creating solutions since 1987,\u201d whatever that means. \u201cWaWhen you are thinking, \u201cI wonder if Life Corporation could do\u2026?\u201d The answer is probably YES.\u201d [sic] \u201cPlease call use to discuss making a win-win arrangement for both of our companies.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the kind of thrown-together gobbledygook that suggests the company might not really do anything at all, or whatever it does do can\u2019t be said out loud or in public.<\/p>\n
Although the companies behind the calls have been identified, this is still only the beginning of the legal work. Life Corporation and Lingo have both been issued cease and desists (from New Hampshire state authorities and the FCC respectively), but there could be charges filed and I\u2019ve asked the New Hampshire AG about this possibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Election Law Unit is additionally issuing document preservation notices and subpoenas for records to Life Corporation and to multiple other entities, including Lingo Telecom, that may possess records relevant to the Attorney General\u2019s ongoing investigation,\u201d writes the AG\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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