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Company: OMICS Group Inc. et al.
Penalty: $50,100,000
Year: 2019
Date: April 3, 2019
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A federal judge ordered journal publisher and conference organizer Srinubabu Gedela and his companies to pay more than $50.1 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that they made deceptive claims to academics and researchers about the nature of their conferences and publications, and hid steep publication fees.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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