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Company: SBC SNET Yellow Pages
Penalty: $5,000,000
Year: 2004
Date: December 13, 2004
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: SBC Yellow Pages agreed to pay $5 million in settlement of allegations it deceptively marketed advertisements to businesses, falsely claiming that the smaller yellow pages editions for specific towns were ceasing production, to force them to advertise in the county Yellow Pages.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Connecticut Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Connecticut
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