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Company: National Maintenance Supply, Inc.
Penalty: $80,000
Year: 2000
Date: February 29, 2000
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A suburban Chicago-area telemarketing company charged with sending unordered merchandise to small businesses around the country and then billing them for it agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission and State of Illinois charges that it was violating federal law. The settlement barred National Maintenance Supply, Inc. and its owner from any future telemarketing of office, cleaning or janitorial supplies and required payment of $80,000 in consumer redress.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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