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Company: Wade Cook Financial Corp. and Wade Cook Seminars
Penalty: $10,000,000
Year: 2000
Date: December 21, 2000
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The Fresno County District Attorney's Office and the state attorney general filed a settlement agreement with Wade Cook Financial Corp. and Wade Cook Seminars Wednesday that was expected to provide as many as 22,000 California consumers with more than $10 million in refunds.
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Multi-Jurisdiction Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: California
Facility County: Fresno
Source of Data: Settlement in seminar case could yield $10m, Fresno Bee, December 21, 2000 (via Nexis).
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.