UPDATE: 11 Additional charges laid in vacuum-cleaner fraud case
Michael Goldberg was arrested Sunday after a home show customer contacted St. John’s police. (CBC)
Police in St. John’s laid 11 more fraud charges against a U.S. man arrested after setting up a booth at a weekend home show.
Michael Goldberg, 51, was selling vacuum cleaning systems from a booth at Mile One Centre.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary launched an investigation after a customer contacted police after finding a fraud alert on the website of Vacu-Maid, whose products Goldberg was representing. Goldberg was specifically named in the alert.
One charge of fraud was laid Monday against Goldberg, who the RNC said has done business under other names.
Goldberg is not seeking bail and is being held in custody in St. John’s.
A warrant was issued for Goldberg in Sacramento County in California, although the RNC says U.S. officials do not at this time want to extradite him.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:10 am
This is very good news. This fellow actually went to a trade show in Florida and used my company’s name and logo. It was very sad because some of the customers he cheated actually thought they were dealing with us. Thanks for this update, MD
October 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
He was at the Denver Home Show Oct 18/19, 2008!!!
We ordered the Cana-Vac system he was pushing with a credit card downpayment to get the great deal price. He called today (Monday) to say he was unable to process credit card (his dealer did not advise him ahead of time that because of great savings they could not run cards) and needed to come over and get a check deposit made out to him TODAY. We declined over concerns about refunds.