Janella McKenzie and William Bernard, of Sunrise, Fla.; Veronica Whitfield, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Vinrese Stewart, of Mount Vernon, N.Y.; Marlon Trowers, of Orange, N.J.; Karl Greenland, of Laurelton, N.Y.; and Lisa Mazyck, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; along with a number of unidentified defendants (listed as John Does in the complaint), created false subscription accounts and illegally activated hundreds of access cards and receivers nationwide for individuals, who then paid the defendants to receive DIRECTV programming without authorization or proper payment to DIRECTV.
Paul Arthur Cater, Waterloo, Ontario; Mile Turkalj (aka Mike Turkalj), Kitchener, Ontario; Martyn Gillott (aka Martin Gillott), Beamsville, Ontario; Theresa Patterson, Kitchener, Ontario; and Karen Gauthier, Shakespeare, Ontario. The defendants were affiliated with a number of businesses that were also identified or named as defendants in the lawsuit including Zed Marketing, Inc. and Huworks.tv, which DIRECTV believes are the biggest players in the scheme. The two companies, along with several key defendants in this case, have a long history of pirate activity and several of them have been charged criminally in other signal theft cases. Other businesses allegedly playing prominent roles in the fraud were Eonme.com. Inc.
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