Violation Tracker Parent Company Summary
Parent Company Name:
AT&T
Ownership Structure:
publicly traded (ticker symbol T)
Headquartered in:
Texas
Major Industry:
telecommunications
Specific Industry:
telecommunications
Penalty total since 2000:
$1,146,769,700
Number of records:
231
| Top 10 Primary Offense Types | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
|---|---|---|
| accounting fraud or deficiencies | $300,000,000 | 1 |
| telecommunications violation | $289,279,685 | 24 |
| benefit plan administrator violation | $257,075,000 | 7 |
| wage and hour violation | $143,407,345 | 42 |
| consumer protection violation | $88,010,000 | 4 |
| export control violation | $24,000,000 | 1 |
| False Claims Act | $18,240,846 | 5 |
| employment discrimination | $17,241,278 | 16 |
| environmental violation | $3,894,973 | 19 |
| civil contempt | $2,000,000 | 1 |
Notes:
Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty dollar total above may be adjusted to account for the fact that the list of entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. Duplicate penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.
Associated Names:
180 CONNECT; AOL Time Warner; AT AND B WIRELESS; AT AND T; AT AND T / ALS; AT AND T / SBC; AT AND T BROADBAND; AT AND T BROADBAND AND INTERNET SVC; AT AND T BROADBAND D / B / A TCI CABLEVISION OF TEXAS; AT AND T BROADBAND MORRIS IL; AT AND T COMMUNICATIONS; AT AND T COMMUNICATIONS EAST; AT AND T MISSOURI; AT AND T NETWORK SVC; AT AND T OPERATIONS; AT AND T SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE; AT AND T TECHNICAL SVC; AT AND T WIRELESS; AT&T WEB HOSTING & COMM OPERATIONS; BELL SOUTN COMMUNICATIONS; BELLSO [...]
Links:
For more details on misconduct by this company, see its entry in the Project On Government Oversight's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database.
For a summary of this company's federal contracts, see its page on Fedspending.
Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found here.
Individual Penalty Records:
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| Company | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency |
Penalty Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time Warner Inc. | accounting fraud or deficiencies | 2005 | SEC | $300,000,000 |
| AT&T Mobility | telecommunications violation | 2014 | FCC | $105,000,000 |
| AT&T Mobility LLC | telecommunications violation | 2015 | FCC | $100,000,000 |
| AOL Time Warner | benefit plan administrator violation | 2006 | private lawsuit-federal | $100,000,000 |
| Bellsouth Corporation | benefit plan administrator violation | 2006 | private lawsuit-federal | $93,675,000 |
| AT&T Mobility LLC | consumer protection violation | 2014 | FTC | $80,000,000 |
| Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,000,000 |
| AT&T Corporation | benefit plan administrator violation | 2005 | private lawsuit-federal | $29,000,000 |
| AT&T Services Inc. | telecommunications violation | 2015 | FCC | $25,000,000 |
| Hughes Electronics Corporation | export control violation | 2003 | DDTC | $24,000,000 |
| AT&T | wage and hour violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $18,920,325 |
| AT&T | telecommunications violation | 2013 | FCC | $18,250,000 |
| AT&T Services | wage and hour violation | 2010 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| SBC Pension Benefit Plan-Nonbargained Program | benefit plan administrator violation | 2008 | private lawsuit-federal | $16,000,000 |
| AT&T Operations | wage and hour violation | 2012 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,500,000 |
| AT&T Services | wage and hour violation | 2008 | private lawsuit-federal | $11,200,000 |
| SBC Communications | benefit plan administrator violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
| AT&T Technical Services Corp. | False Claims Act | 2009 | DOJ_CIVIL | $8,266,414 |
| BellSouth Telecommunications | wage and hour violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,129,675 |
| AT&T Mobility | wage and hour violation | 2016 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,000,000 |
| AT&T Services | telecommunications violation | 2016 | FCC | $7,750,000 |
| AT&T Services Inc. | telecommunications violation | 2015 | FCC | $6,900,000 |
| SBC Communications | telecommunications violation | 2002 | FCC | $6,000,000 |
| Pacific Bell Telephone | wage and hour violation | 2014 | private lawsuit-state | $6,000,000 |
| South Central Bell | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,000,000 |
| Time Warner Inc. | benefit plan administrator violation | 2000 | EBSA | $5,500,000 |
| DIRECTV | consumer protection violation | 2005 | FTC | $5,335,000 |
| AT&T Mobility | telecommunications violation | 2018 | FCC | $5,250,000 |
| Southwestern Bell | employment discrimination | 2012 | private lawsuit-state | $5,120,000 |
| AT&T Mobility | wage and hour violation | 2014 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,000,000 |
| Cingular Wireless, LLC | wage and hour violation | 2007 | WHD | $4,711,767 |
| SBC Communications | telecommunications violation | 2002 | FCC | $3,600,000 |
| AT&T | False Claims Act | 2013 | DOJ_CIVIL | $3,500,000 |
| AT&T | wage and hour violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,287,500 |
| Pacific Bell | wage and hour violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,100,000 |
| AT&T Communications- East, Inc. | False Claims Act | 2006 | DOJ_CIVIL | $2,900,000 |
| AOL Time Warner | benefit plan administrator violation | 2005 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,900,000 |
| AT&T Services | wage and hour violation | 2018 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,750,000 |
| SBC Communications | telecommunications violation | 2001 | FCC | $2,520,000 |
| DIRECTV | consumer protection violation | 2009 | FTC | $2,310,000 |
| Cricket Communications Inc. | False Claims Act | 2014 | USAO | $2,174,432 |
| AT&T Inc. | civil contempt | 2009 | DOJ_CIVIL | $2,000,000 |
| AT&T Wireless | telecommunications violation | 2002 | FCC | $2,000,000 |
| AT&T | environmental violation | 2000 | EPA | $1,800,000 |
| Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership | wage and hour violation | 2013 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,632,883 |
| Pacific Bell | wage and hour violation | 2009 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,500,000 |
| AT&T Missouri | False Claims Act | 2009 | DOJ_CIVIL | $1,400,000 |
| BellSouth Corporation | telecommunications violation | 2003 | FCC | $1,400,000 |
| New Cingular Wireless | environmental violation | 2013 | EPA | $1,375,000 |
| New Cingular - AWS | environmental violation | 2013 | EPA | (*) $1,375,000 |
| SBC Communications | telecommunications violation | 2003 | FCC | $1,350,000 |
| DirecTV, Inc. et al. | wage and hour violation | 2011 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,350,000 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2009 | EEOC | $1,300,000 |
| DirecTV LLC | employment discrimination | 2013 | private lawsuit-state | $1,178,341 |
| Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership | wage and hour violation | 2014 | private lawsuit-federal | $995,000 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2005 | private lawsuit-state | $950,000 |
| AT&T | telecommunications violation | 2003 | FCC | $780,000 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2007 | EEOC | $756,000 |
| AT&T Inc. | telecommunications violation | 2012 | FCC | $700,000 |
| AT&T | telecommunications violation | 2015 | FCC | $640,000 |
| AT&T Mobility | telecommunications violation | 2013 | FCC | $600,000 |
| DirecTV, LLC | employment screening violation | 2017 | private lawsuit-federal | $600,000 |
| Leap Wireless International, Inc. | wage and hour violation | 2010 | WHD | $547,072 |
| Pacific Bell | employment discrimination | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $502,437 |
| AT&T | telecommunications violation | 2004 | FCC | $490,000 |
| Cingular Wireless, LLC. | wage and hour violation | 2004 | WHD | $462,448 |
| AT&T | telecommunications violation | 2016 | FCC | $450,000 |
| AT&T Corp. | employment screening violation | 2016 | private lawsuit-federal | $405,510 |
| Cingular Wireless, LLC. | wage and hour violation | 2007 | WHD | $396,782 |
| DirecTV | wage and hour violation | 2015 | WHD | $395,000 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2016 | private lawsuit-federal | $370,000 |
| AT&T | consumer protection violation | 2004 | FTC | $365,000 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2013 | EEOC | $250,000 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2016 | EEOC | $250,000 |
| Time Warner Entertainment | employment discrimination | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $244,500 |
| Turner Broadcasting | telecommunications violation | 2014 | FCC | $200,000 |
| AT & T CORP | environmental violation | 2000 | EPA | $195,000 |
| AT&T | telecommunications violation | 2016 | FCC | $170,185 |
| BellSouth Corporation | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2002 | SEC | $150,000 |
| New Cingular Wireless | environmental violation | 2012 | EPA | $125,728 |
| Cingular Wireless, LLC | environmental violation | 2012 | EPA | (*) $125,728 |
| DirecTV, LLC | employment screening violation | 2018 | private lawsuit-federal | $125,000 |
| BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC | employment discrimination | 2012 | EEOC | $120,000 |
| AT&T Wireless | telecommunications violation | 2002 | FCC | $117,000 |
| Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. | labor relations violation | 2009 | NLRB | $117,000 |
| AT&T Corporation | labor relations violation | 2004 | NLRB | $101,864 |
| A T & T | labor relations violation | 2003 | NLRB | $100,000 |
| SBC Communications | wage and hour violation | 2004 | WHD | $98,547 |
| 180 Connect Inc | wage and hour violation | 2007 | WHD | $96,475 |
| AT&T Corp. | labor relations violation | 2003 | NLRB | $90,900 |
| AT&T CORP. | environmental violation | 2001 | EPA | $90,469 |
| DIRECTV Inc. | telecommunications violation | 2004 | FCC | $87,500 |
| BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. | labor relations violation | 2007 | NLRB | $82,000 |
| AT&T (Southwestern Bell Telephone) | labor relations violation | 2009 | NLRB | $80,000 |
| Bell Soutn Communications | labor relations violation | 2003 | NLRB | $77,472 |
| AT&T | employment discrimination | 2009 | EEOC | $75,000 |
| AT&T Corporation | labor relations violation | 2005 | NLRB | $75,000 |
| Leap Wireless International, Inc. | wage and hour violation | 2010 | WHD | $63,031 |
| Southwestern Bell Telephone Company | labor relations violation | 2001 | NLRB | $60,846 |
| Bell South | labor relations violation | 2007 | NLRB | $60,825 |
| AT&T BROADBAND LLC | environmental violation | 2001 | EPA | $60,441 |
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