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Company: Clifton Telecard Alliance One, LLC
Penalty: $1,300,000
Year: 2009
Date: June 29, 2009
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A leading U.S. distributor of prepaid calling cards agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the calling cards failed to deliver the number of minutes advertised. In tests conducted by the FTC, the calling cards on average provided less than half of the advertised calling minutes.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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