{"id":147229,"date":"2018-01-18T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147229"},"modified":"2018-01-18T02:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:32:26","slug":"ex-ataris-bassist-indicted-accused-of-telemarketing-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/18\/ex-ataris-bassist-indicted-accused-of-telemarketing-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Ataris bassist indicted, accused of telemarketing fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147230\" style=\"width: 956px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Ataris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147230\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Ataris.jpg\" alt=\"The former bassist of the rock band The Ataris awaits arraignment after he and a woman were indicted on federal conspiracy and fraud charges. (Photo: The Ataris\/Facebook)\" width=\"956\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Ataris.jpg 956w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Ataris-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Ataris-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Ataris-768x771.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former bassist of the rock band The Ataris awaits arraignment after he and a woman were indicted on federal conspiracy and fraud charges. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theataris\/photos\/a.10151181582737506.551191.237266177505\/10156178677047506\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theataris\/\">The Ataris\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 The former bassist of the rock band The Ataris awaits arraignment after he and a woman were indicted on federal conspiracy and fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Sean Davenport was arrested last month at a Little Rock, Arkansas, airport on a warrant issued by a southern Illinois federal court accusing him of running a telemarketing business in Santa Barbara, California, for eight years. The indictment alleges the business advertised houses and apartments it didn&#8217;t own at low prices.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old Davenport is accused of defrauding more than 100,000 people out of $27 million.<\/p>\n<p>Davenport and Cynthia Rawlinson, his sales manager, are charged with wire and mail fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Davenport&#8217;s attorney, Alan Karow, said in an email Wednesday night that he will \u201cassert a vigorous defence\u201d and that he believes Davenport is innocent. Rawlinson has no attorney listed in court records.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 The former bassist of the rock band The Ataris awaits arraignment after he and a woman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":147230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[43817,43816],"class_list":["post-147229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-michael-sean-davenport","tag-the-ataris","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}