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Company: Reader's Digest Association
Penalty: $196,000
Year: 2005
Date: March 28, 2005
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Reader's Digest agreed to pay $196,000 in settlement of allegations it used deceptive marketing in its sweepstakes contests.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Connecticut Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Connecticut
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