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Company: Crescent Publishing Group, Inc. et al.
Penalty: $30,000,000
Year: 2001
Date: November 5, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The owners and operators of scores of adult entertainment websites agreed to pay $30 million in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission and New York State Attorney General allegations that they illegally billed thousands of consumers for services that were advertised as free and billed other consumers who never visited the websites at all.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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