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Company: Reader's Digest Association
Penalty: $8,000,000
Year: 2001
Date: March 8, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Reader's Digest agreed to make $6 million in restitution payments to a group of states (plus $2 million in legal costs) to resolve allegations that it conducted its sweepstakes in misleading ways.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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