Dance Company Defrauds Lonely Widow – $500,000 Settlement

$500,000 Jury Verdict for compensatory and punitive damages in favor of elderly woman who signed up for ballroom dance lessons. The owners took her money and never gave her the ballroom lessons and out of town dance contest trips she paid for. The company had been doing this on a national basis and its owners were eventually prosecuted criminally in Georgia and Kentucky for fraud and racketeering. (Superior Court of Richmond County, 2000).