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Company: Real Wealth Inc.
Penalty: $10,400,000
Year: 2011
Date: June 16, 2011
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A federal judge ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission and ordered Real Wealth, Inc. and its owner, Lance Murkin, to pay $10.4 million, the full amount of harm caused to thousands of consumers nationwide who were victimized by the Defendants' work-at-home and grant scams. The Court also banned Real Wealth and Murkin from marketing or selling work-at-home or grant-related products, and from assisting others in doing so.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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