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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Civic Development Group, LLC
Penalty: $18,800,000
Year: 2010
Date: March 31, 2010
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The operators of a New Jersey-based telemarketing scheme agreed to pay $18.8 million and leave the charitable donation business to settle charges that they violated a Federal Trade Commission order by misleading consumers to believe that they were donating directly to legitimate charities serving police, firefighters, and veterans, when in fact only a small slice of the donations actually went to these charities.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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