A New Jersey-based company that sells training courses on how to obtain federal jobs is mailing fliers to Carson City residents about its June 15 seminar at the Plaza Hotel despite the New York attorney general calling the operation a scam.
The company, known as both Public Service Pathways and State National Training Service Inc., charges an entry fee of $5 for its seminar where representatives sell a home correspondence study course to train people for entry-level federal jobs with an average salary of $30 an hour. The study course costs about $1,000.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced in December that his office filed suit against State National Training Service Inc., because it "sold a study-at-home course to unemployed New Yorkers with false promises that the course would lead to civil service jobs," according to the New York attorney general's website. "The company's misrepresentations led countless unemployed and desperate consumers to enroll with SNTS only to realize afterwards that they had been scammed."
The lawsuit seeks to ban the company from doing business in the state of New York unless the company pays a $300,000 performance bond and gives restitution to those it allegedly defrauded.
No complaints have been filed against the company in Nevada, according to the Nevada attorney general's office.
The Better Business Bureau has recorded 69 complaints against the State National Training Service in the past three years, including billing problems, false advertising and faulty refunds. Most of the complaints were resolved.
A phone number listed for the company was disconnected on Thursday.
A conference center representative at the Plaza Hotel in Carson City, 801 S. Carson St., said the company had not finalized its plans to host the seminar next week, adding he was unaware of the allegations against Public Service Pathways.
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