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Company: First Niagara Bank
Current Parent Company: KeyCorp
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Penalty: $33,500
Year: 2003
Date: February 11, 2003
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The New York Attorney General reached an agreement with ten banks to stop allowing their credit cards to be used for online gambling. The banks also agreed to pay a total of $335,000. The announcement did not specify how that amount would be divided among the banks. Here we assume it was split evenly among them.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New York Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New York
Facility City: Auburn
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Ohio
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: banking
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