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Company: Southern Progress Corporation
Penalty: $500,000
Year: 2002
Date: November 7, 2002
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice filed a complaint and consent decree against Alabama-based Oxmoor House and its parent Southern Progress Corporation, a magazine corporation also based in Alabama. As part of the consent decree, the companies agreed to pay $500,000 in civil penalties to resolve allegations charges that they did not adequately inform consumers about the terms of their free trial book offers.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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