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Company: MCI Worldcom
Current Parent Company: Verizon Communications
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Penalty: $500,000
Year: 2002
Date: February 25, 2002
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: AT&T, MCI Worldcom and Sprint agreed to pay a total of $1.5 million to settle multistate litigation alleging they misled customers on long-distance calling rates. The announcement did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume the amount was divided evenly among them.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
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