“The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) was thrilled to learn today that FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, named Karen Peltz Strauss, a former NAD attorney, as Deputy Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB). The CGB develops and implements FCC consumer policies, including disability access. Karen will focus on disability issues and will help the FCC implement the disability access components of the National Broadband Plan, including leading the effort to develop the Accessibility and Innovation Forum.”

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The first two accused of VRS fraud have plead guilty:

Former Executives of Video Relay Services Company Plead Guilty to Defrauding FCC Program

Others in the same company have decided to go to trial.

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