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Miracle Machines | The PAP-IMI

Bob Green, of Post Falls, Idaho, bought a PAP-IMI in 2001 to make money and help others. The machine had electrical problems from the beginning. He asked salesman Chuck Wallach for a refund, but Wallach refused, and he warned Green not to complain to the FDA. "If you make up stories to tell them, I will sue you and take your house," he wrote to Green in July 2002. "Start saving your pennies."

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