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A lawsuit alleges that members of a prominent Tijuana family are "defraud[ing]" American military personnel going to and from the wars in Afghanistan.
During the past four years, roughly 800,000 members of the American military have passed through the airport in Leipzig , Germany--a popular refueling stop for soldiers going to and from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Members of the armed forces who want to call home can use a pay phone service in the airport's secure military lounge. But those calls may have been costing the service members dearly: according to a recent class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Waco, Texas, the Switzerland-based company that runs the pay phone service--and its sister firm in California--have been "rigg[ing]" the phones to sometimes charge more than $40 for a call lasting mere seconds. |