A Kid’s Guide to Internet Safety

AG Wilson says ‘Advertising Claims Must Walk the Walk, not just Talk the Talk.’ COLUMBIA, SC  – May 16, 2012 – Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that South Carolina joined with forty-three other states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission in settling causes of action against Skechers USA, Inc. Sketchers USA, Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million in a national consumer settlement to settle complaints filed by the Wilson, other Attorneys General, and the FTC against the company’s unsupported advertising claims regarding the health benefits of its Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups, and Resistance Runner athletic shoes. The complaints…

Columbia, S.C. – May 16, 2012 Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today three arrests made on May 15, 2012 by the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) arrests. Bobby Glen Chapman, James Witton Lother, and Richard Adam Burch were all arrested by members of the Attorney General’s ICAC Task Force. Bobby Glen Chapman, 34, of 571 Cherry Street in Chesterfield, South Carolina, was arrested by the Attorney General’s office with assistance from the Florence Police Department, who is a member of the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, and the Chesterfield Police Department. Chapman was arrested…