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Small Business Owner Wins Fine Fight

0110flier.jpg Last year, small business Susan Hager was fined after taping an envelope filled with 15 of her business cards to a lamppost on Court Street. Them's the breaks... but the problem here is that she was charged a fine for each card; so instead of facing a $75 fine for the envelope and its contents, she faced closer to a $3,000 fine. The Brooklyn Paper now reports that after her hearing, her fine was knocked down to just $75. This could be seen as a small coup for small business owners facing Bloomberg's quality of life ticketing spree. A pet-groomer, also in Brooklyn, is currently fighting over $8,000 in fines for posters he put up to advertise his shop... which he may now have to close.

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  • ivyleaguecrew

    so, pretty much you can just create really bad posters advertising your competition's business, plaster them everywhere and they will get the blame! great job bloomberg!

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