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It appears that Michael Finney and his news director, Kevin Keeshan,
at KGO-TV (Channel 7) in San Francisco were duped by Craigslist CEO
Jim Buckmaster and Southwest Airlines President Colleen Barrett's
spokespeople.  This is the new wave of journalists who put the
sensationalism of a story before the due diligence, investigation,
etc. of said story!

Here is story..

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=6003617

If Finney had done a simple Google search for..."southwest scammer
craigslist" (or similar variations) for the web and/or newsgroups he
would have had to revise his story because he would have seen that
both Jim Buckmaster & Colleen Barrett's folks lied to him!  They were
well aware of the scam!  The scammer was on the web the day he did the
story, as was the due diligence to catch him.  Why do the story if you
don't care...unbelievable!

You cannot even believe a so-called Emmy Award winning journalist
anymore!

If you are or were scammed, contact the people below!

Here is an email forwarded to me...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Craigslist Scammer, Crook, Defrauder Of Innocent Folks
Dupes Victims Daily With The Aid of Craig Newmark, Colleen Barrett
(SWA), etc.
To: michael.finney@kgotv.com, Tracey.Watkowski@kgotv.com,
Keeshan.Kevin@kgotv.com
Cc: Joe Mcdaniel <Joe.Mcdaniel@wnco.com>, clint@craigslist.org,
editor@craigslist.org, jim@craigslist.org, "steve.harvey@latimes.com"
<steve.harvey@latimes.com>, david.lazarus@latimes.com,
russ.stanton@latimes.com, editor@usatoday.com, fair@fair.org,
"ana.garcia@nbcuni.com" <ana.garcia@nbcuni.com>, "video@myabc7.com"
<video@myabc7.com>, newstips@upi.com, nfo@ap.org,
brattonw@lapd.lacity.org, colleen.barrett@wnco.com,
craig@craigslist.org, klupoff@bkpub.com,
tlee@bkpub.com,smoore@bkpub.com,pcavagnaro@bkpub.com


Attention Michael Finney..

It appears that both Southwest Airlines and Craigslist duped you
regarding this story by you.  A simple Google search by you (see
below) would have showed you evidence of lying by these not-so-honest
corporate citizens!

You were lied to by Southwest and Buckmaster at Craigslist.  This scam
and similar ones have been reported to them by me & others for more
than a year with absolutely no response.  Emails have been sent to
Colleen Barrett of SWA & Craig Newmark of Craigslist. They are
scamming you by playing dumb!  They actually could care less and
knowingly facilitate the scams with full knowledge that their
acquiescence is harming innocent victims!

What they do and more importantly, do not do, is repugnant to honest
corporate citizens!


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS233US233&q=southwest+scammer+craigslist

http://groups.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS233US233&q=southwest%20scammer%20craigslist&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg

http://groups.google.com/group/la.general/browse_thread/thread/5a2ddd0428814a9c#


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM..

    Dear Los Angeles Media, Police (Chief Bratton), Craigslist (Craig
Newmark), SWA (Colleen Barrett)..

    I am truly miffed that the LA Police have not arrested this CROOK
who has defrauded thousands of dollars, all with the aid, or at the
very least, a blind-eye of Craigslist and the believe it or not,
Southwest Airlines!  It is time for this nonsense and lawbreaking to
end!  More here..

    http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.travel.marketplace/2007-10/msg00057.html

    http://groups.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS233US233&q=prolific%20craigslist&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS233US233&q=323+309%2d1082

    http://phoenix.craigslist.org/tix/691125375.html

    head out too phoenix on Southwest Airlines $ 120-230 dollars -
$120230
    Reply to: see below
    Date: 2008-05-22, 1:17PM MST


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