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Nets Partner with Roni Deutch

The New Jersey Nets actually have a shot at winning something: the record for the fewest wins in an NBA season. The Nets have won a whopping six games. In order to drum up publicity and motivate fans to attend their games, the Nets have partnered with Tax Lady Roni Lynn Deutch to offer free tax services to New Jersey residents.

Fans who attend the Nets’ first game against the Orlando Magic will be eligible for a free income tax return from the Roni Deutch Tax Center. Deutch believes that this partnership is a perfect match, considering tax season and basketball season overlap. Having played college softball, Roni is no stranger to sports fandom and has stated that she knows “two things about sports fans: They take sports very seriously and they still have to deal with the IRS.”

Roni Deutch and the Nets are excited about this new partnership and the opportunity to create a winning situation for the fans, and hopefully, for the Nets.

Nets now offer fans tax returns

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For our reading enjoyment, The Consumerist was kind enough to round up all the juicy mayhem news that comes with Black Friday, the biggest and most dangerous shopping day of the year.

The most significant news of the day? Employees and shoppers alike made it through the day with no deaths or major injuries, which sadly, has become a typical occurrence on Black Friday. However, not everyone left unscathed.

Check out the stories on The Consumerist from around the country that day, including fist fights, shoving and the occasional spit.

McDonald’s is trying to “go green,” too.

It’s exchanging the red in its European logo for a “deep hunter green” evidently to show those overseas that it cares about the environment.

About 100 German McDonald’s restaurants will make the change by the end of 2009, according to a report from the Associated Press. Also, some franchises in Great Britain and France have already started using the new color scheme.

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After making donations upwards of $400 million that were gained by fraudulent means to both major political parties, politicians and charities, Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein is giving at least some of that money back.

Miami lawyers Kendall Coffey and Jeffrey Sonn are helping to defending clients who say the wealthy Rothstein defrauded them of up to $400 million.

“Scott Rothstein solicited investors to buy shares in a structured settlement that purportedly had been reached with a defense industry whistleblower, who wanted instant cash in place of installment payments over time,” according to an article on www.law.com.

According to a New York Times article published Nov. 4, Rothstein’s law firm has been placed in receivership, a type of corporate bankruptcy, and the ensuing investigation could lead to the largest giveback of donations in the state’s history.

Since then, both the Democratic Party of Florida and the Republican Party of Florida have given back sums totaling more than $350,000, which came from Rothstein.

Other politicians given donations from Rothstein that are believed to be fraudulent include Republican Sen. John McCain and Democrat Harry Reid, Senate majority leader.

Kendall Coffey said it is still uncertain how many people might be affected.

He said it appeared to be a small group, with large claims.

“The ones described to me had claims in at least seven figures,” Kendall Coffey said.

Cement manufacturer CEMEX was recently cited by the Construction Products Association for its new campaign to reduce accidents between trucks (called lorries by our British cousins) and bicyclists.

CEMEX has modified its truck fleet to prevent potentially fatal collisions with the cyclists. These changes include:

1. New mirrors to improve visibility on blind spots
2. Cyclists warning signs on all trucks
3. Proximity sensor “side-scan” to warn truck drivers of the any approaching things on the left side
4. Side under-bars on tippers that act as protection for cyclists

“Certainly we would urge all hauliers and transport companies to look at their procedures and do all they can to minimize accidents,” said a spokesman for CEMEX. “These types of measures could help prevent more deaths on the road, as well as costly legal proceedings.”

Bravo to CEMEX for making the roads safer for cyclists!

Article Source: CEMEX lauded for cyclist protection Builders Merchant Journal