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Company: Triad Discount Buying Service Inc. et al.
Penalty: $9,000,000
Year: 2001
Date: October 24, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A group of buying clubs including Triad Discount Buying Service Inc., a Boca Raton-based business, its related companies and their operator agreed to pay more than $9 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and state Attorneys General that they misled consumers into accepting trial club memberships and obtained billing information from telemarketers without the consumers' knowledge or authorization.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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