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DECEMBER 08, 2009

Links for the Times: Sunstate Academy girls; Tidewater gas vouchers

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Girls at Sunstate Academy in Clearwater get a makeover. See a photo gallery from the makeover.

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Tidewater The nationwide free gas voucher program created by a Largo marketing company was a $39 million "fraudulent scheme," according to a lawyer appointed by the state to review the finances of  Tidewater Marketing Global Consultants.

Read previous coverage of Tidewater by St. Petersburg Times consumer reporter Ivan Penn :

Woman behind Tidewater gas vouchers spent more than $600,000 on herself (Oct. 26)

Tidewater's free gas cards an empty offer, report says (March 7)

Attorney general asks judge to shut down Tidewater marketing firm (Feb. 20)

State steps up inquiry into Tidewater gas vouchers (Dec. 20, 2008)

Complaints pile up against marketing firm over gas voucher program (Dec. 16)

Photo: Crystal M. Clark, president of Tidewater

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