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Company: Creative Publishing International
Penalty: $200,000
Year: 2001
Date: May 30, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Creative Publishing International, a Minnesota publisher of how-to books, agreed to pay $200,000 in civil penalties for allegedly enticing consumers to accept free trial book offers and then enrolling them in book clubs that made periodic shipments of books without obtaining their consent.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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