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Scammers net thousands Callers say they’re from the IRS and threaten their victims if they don’t pay up. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
MUKILTEO — Scammers posing as IRS agents have been fleecing local people out of
thousands of dollars in recent weeks. Since May, at least three people in Mukilteo have been duped into surrendering cash by someone pretending to be an IRS agent who has threatened to arrest them if they don’t pay up fast. The scam has been pulled off over the phone. The caller claims to be an IRS
agent who tells people there is a problem with their tax return. He then warns his victims that their assets and homes are about to be seized and they will be placed under arrest within the hour if they don’t follow his instructions, Mukilteo crime prevention officer Colt Davis said. Victims in Mukilteo were directed to go to commercial outlets where they could buy
prepaid cards and read the serial numbers to the IRS agent impersonator. The victims were kept on the phone during the transactions. “The money is just gone,” Davis said. The three cases in Mukilteo occurred between May 3 and June 12. Four other people See SCAMMERS, Page A8
Labor dispute a big what-if
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The outcome of the case of 2 workers in Miami who voted to join SPEEA before contract talks stalled could have major implications.
Barbie’s Hairstyling to close, but owner plans to keep her clients
By Dan Catchpole
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EVERETT — Longtime downtown hairdresser Barbie Fraker is closing up her shop this summer and selling the building. Fraker has run Barbie’s Hairstyling for two decades, initially out of a rented shop on Broadway, then in the small single-story building at 2531 Wetmore Ave., for the past 13 years. Fraker, 49, isn’t hanging up the clippers quite yet. She’s long
made a practice of picking up appointments or making house calls — serving clients who are elderly, disabled or just not mobile enough to come into the shop on their own. She’ll keep that client list as she downsizes her business. While she’s had 30 people working for her or renting chairs in her shop over the years, her last employee retired a year ago. Fraker has rheumatoid arthritis and has been sick for the past four years, she said. She is back on her feet thanks
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to medication, but she decided that dialing back the business was the best thing she could do for herself. “Right now, my health and a place to live is the most important thing,” Fraker said. Fraker started out in hairdressing right after graduating from Everett High School. She went to the now-closed Crown School of Hair Design, where an instructor tipped her off to a job opening with the Coast Guard. “They asked me, ‘Can you use
Electric Glide But is it really a Harley without the noisy exhaust? Harley-Davidson says it will unveil its first electric motorcycle next week, and the iconic company aims to be a leader in developing technology for e-vehicles (Page A11). And that’s entirely Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . E4
clippers?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ They said, ‘Can you be here at 8 a.m.?’ ” That first job turned into a job with the Navy, and before long Fraker was going into business for herself. She made $67 her first week. Perhaps because her father was older and she grew up around his friends at the V.F.W. hall, much of her clientele were of older generations. When she opened her first business, she said, she was
appropriate, since the typical Harley rider is just a few years away from needing a different kind of electric vehicle: a mobility scooter. Ooops: HBO has given the go-ahead to a new television series about the Texas political scene, with characters based on real-life Texas politicians (Page D6).
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EVERETT — Two. That many engineers are at the heart of a labor dispute that could have big implications for the Boeing Co.’s plan to move engineering work from metro Puget Sound — and away from union shops. If Boeing loses, job migration could become much more costly. Late last year, two engineers with Boeing Flight Services in Miami voted to join the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, the union that represents more than 25,000 workers at Boeing and other companies. They voted in a self-determination election, which allows employees to join an existing collective bargaining unit. That means the employees don’t have to negotiate an entirely new contract. The process is also called an Armour-Globe election, a reference to case law that established the legal doctrine. An Armour-Globe election can “streamline organizing,” said Ray Goforth, SPEEA’s executive director. After the Miami vote, though, contract negotiations between Boeing and SPEEA earlier this year reached an impasse. SPEEA argued that most of the existing contract terms for metro Puget Sound employees should simply be extended to the two engineers in Miami. Boeing argued that many contract terms should be renegotiated for the Miami engineers because of geographic differences between Florida and Washington. In early May, both sides filed unfair labor practice charges with federal regulators, each accusing the other of not negotiating in good faith. The charges are still under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board. These types of charges are somewhat subjective and hinge “on whether the two sides are really attempting to reach an agreement, or whether one side is stonewalling,” said Charlotte
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For the ultimate in verisimilitude, the show’s producers should consider casting the Gov. Rick Perry role with an actor who has trouble remembering his lines. Keeps drifting away at Page 104: Former and perhaps future first daughter Chelsea Clinton hasn’t Stocks . . . . . .A12 TV . . . . . . . . . .D6
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been seen on NBC News since January, even though she is reportedly being paid $600,000 a year as an on-air correspondent (Page A2). It’s not like Clinton has been ditching work or anything. She’s just been too busy trying to make it through her mom’s new 656page doorstop of a book. — Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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Barbie Fraker, owner of Barbie’s Hairstyling on Wetmore Avenue, is closing her studio after 20 years of doing hair in Everett.
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