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W.Va. AG files lawsuit against woman who allegedly failed to provide wedding DJ services


West Virginia’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Ohio woman who allegedly failed to provide advertised wedding DJ and planning services. (Sinclair Broadcast Group)
West Virginia’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Ohio woman who allegedly failed to provide advertised wedding DJ and planning services. (Sinclair Broadcast Group)
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West Virginia’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Ohio woman who allegedly failed to provide advertised wedding DJ services.

Helen Marie Nichole Smith, of Steubenville, Ohio, is accused of violating West Virginia’s Consumer Credit and Protection Act after the state received several complaints from consumers who alleged that she failed to provide services she advertised on social media, according to a news release from attorney general Patrick Morrisey’s office.

Morrisey said the woman owned and operated her business first in West Virginia – where she failed to register with the state’s tax division and secretary of state – and then in Ohio from April 2020 to May 2021.

During that time, Smith is accused of entering more than 135 contracts to provide DJ services for upcoming weddings in West Virginia and elsewhere, but she allegedly failed to provide the services at numerous weddings.

“It’s really simple: you must follow the law if you want to do business in West Virginia, and be honest about your work,” Morrisey said in the news release. “Those who defraud consumers must be held accountable to the full extent of the law.”

As word spread of her alleged failure to honor the contracts, many of the consumers canceled their contracts in April and May of 2021 which led Smith to file for bankruptcy, according to the news release. She identified more than 135 “consumer creditors” in her filing related to her disc jockey services, claiming the amount of debt owing was “unknown.”

Smith was indicted by a Hancock County grand jury in September 2021 on a single count of fraudulent schemes. She pleaded guilty this past February.

Morrisey’s lawsuit also asks a judge to order Smith to pay maximum civil penalties “for each and every willful and repeated violation” of the Consumer Credit and Protection Act, the news release said.

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