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**PRESS RELEASE**

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
CHILDREN’S TALENT SERVICE CONVICTED OF DECEPTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office today announced it has
secured criminal convictions of the owner and operator of two Los Angeles talent
services -- “Scooters Fab Flashcast” – a children’s talent broker --  for deceptive business practices, following a successful prosecution by Deputy City Attorney Mark
Lambert of the Consumer Protection Unit.

“Scooters” operator, Carl Ken Carranza, and its owner, Flashcast Companies
Inc., each pled no contest to two counts of false advertising and were placed on
36 months probation and sentenced to 90 days in jail or 600 hours of community
service. Carranza and the Corporation were also ordered to pay $17,145 in
restitution to 11 victims, not to attempt to collect any portion of outstanding fees
from persons who notify the court by November 5 and to prominently display on
future advertisements that the company is not a free service.
Located in Universal City, Scooters Fab Flashcast – now doing business as
“Scooters Kidz” – issued misleading advertisements primarily on the internet at
craigslist.org – appearing to offer a no-cost talent search for babies and young
children for jobs in modeling, catalogs and television commercials. Parents
responding to the advertisement spent hours at an “audition” only to discover that
the company was in fact a service offering to obtain a licensed talent agent for
their child at a cost of $1,495.