{"id":161044,"date":"2026-08-20T06:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=161044"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:39:32","slug":"federal-judge-orders-discovery-into-potential-tcpa-fraud-dont-take-me-for-an-idiot-up-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/federal-judge-orders-discovery-into-potential-tcpa-fraud-dont-take-me-for-an-idiot-up-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Orders Discovery Into Potential TCPA Fraud: ‘Don’t Take Me For an Idiot Up Here’"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a Wednesday hearing, Oregon Chief U.S. District Judge Michael McShane told Andrew Perrong, the lawyer for Chet Wilson, a plaintiff in 14 class actions alleging TCPA violations, “I’m quite frankly concerned about whether criminal fraud is taking place.”<\/p>\n

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At a Wednesday hearing, Oregon Chief U.S. District Judge Michael McShane told Andrew Perrong, the lawyer for Chet Wilson, a plaintiff in 14 class actions alleging TCPA violations, “I’m quite frankly concerned about whether criminal fraud is taking place.”<\/p>\n

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At a Wednesday hearing, Oregon Chief U.S. District Judge Michael McShane told Andrew Perrong, the lawyer for Chet Wilson, a plaintiff in 14 class actions alleging TCPA violations, “I’m quite frankly concerned about whether criminal fraud is taking place.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At a Wednesday hearing, Oregon Chief U.S. District Judge Michael McShane told Andrew Perrong, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-QdQLtv.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161049,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161044\/revisions\/161049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}